Desktop Scripting Overview

Desktop Scripting Overview

Purpose

The My1Login Desktop Scripting language is a Domain Specific Language (Desktop DSL), targeted at controlling and responding to Windows desktop applications, with the aim of injecting user credentials that are stored in the My1Login system.

It can inspect elements within windows and respond to their existence or values.

It works best with native apps that have standard windows handles for their controls. Apps that are built from HTML and Javascript do not support such deep integration due to their controls not being visible to the standard Windows APIs. Such apps can be scripted but rely on the sequence of their controls rather than directly accessing specific controls.

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