substitution for Autohotkey - QT or GTK?

[simba4]

Hi there,

I am ~new to ubuntu but not new to computers.
Lately, I migrate from Windows to Ubuntu and I managing pretty well.

On Windows platform I used to script with a tool called Autohotkey (http://www.autohotkey.com/).
Asking around for a substitute for the Ubuntu world, two names popped up: QT and GTK.

Reading about the differences (https://www.wikivs.com/wiki/GTK_vs_Qt), It seems that QT is the superior one, but that is only my impression. For a more established opinion, I would like to depend on your collective knowledge and experience.

I used to use that Autohotkey (http://www.autohotkey.com/) script language to control some stand alone applications that lack some features or to automate some actions within those applications.

For example, the attached picture shows the screenshot of a stand_alone Windows trading application. I wrote a script to perform an action on a specific combination of graph conditions (breach or break).

I wonder if someone that is familiar with that Autohotkey (http://www.autohotkey.com/) can tell me which of the two (QT vs GTK) will be most suitable for my purposes.


Thank you,


James

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[TheFu]

Qt and GTK are NOT what you think they are. They are cross-platform libraries for developers. Not very useful to end-users. There are bindings for many different languages, but mostly C/C++.

Don't use the GUI interface for things you want to remote control. Use the API or CLI interface - expect is the normal tool for that control on any Unix system. You can also check out different testing tools - these provide inputs to programs and could be used for your needs. There are CLI and GUI versions of these. For example, if you want to control a website, that would use a different tool.

If you want to access 90% of the power in your Linux system, get away from the GUI and learn to write little scripts to automate things. Bash, Python, Ruby, Perl are the normal languages.

Also, you can visit "alternativeTo.net" to find GUI options. (Teaching you to fish).
I suspect autokey is what you think you want. ;)