automating GUI with java robot on Octave

[Erdem Pulcu]

Dear Members,

I am trying to implement a function which was working perfectly fine in Matlab, and I am trying to implement the same in Octave. I am using a Windows 10 PC with Octave 4.2.1.

Initially when I was installing the Octave for the first time it complained that JRE were not installed, but I fixed this issue by installing and rebooting the program, so it doesn't flag this up anymore.

The Matlab code that I want to run on Octane is below, it should implement some mouse clicks on a GUI in an automated fashion.

robot = java.awt.Robot;

screenSizes = get(0, 'MonitorPositions');

store(loops,2)=zeros;

for i=1:loops

%Mouse to upper left of primary monitor

robot.mouseMove(1, 1)

%Mouse to center of primary monitor

robot.mouseMove(mean(screenSizes(1,[1 3])),mean(screenSizes(1,[2 4]))) 

%Mouse to hardcoded point 200 pixels down and 500 pixels to the right

robot.mouseMove(500, 200)

robot.mouseMove(170,85);

pause(1.5)

import java.awt.Robot;

import java.awt.event.*;

mouse = Robot;

%[rest of the code is not relevant so deleted for simplicity]

end

when I run the script Octave says in the command window

error: 'java' undefined near line bla bla bla

This GUI automation is very crucial thing for me, so I highly appreciate any recommendations (please give step by step details, as I am not so familiar of using Octave or Java, although fairly ok with Matlab)

Looking forward to hear from you all

Erdem