Problem using Sikuli with robotMK

[jaketehpwner]

Hello,

I am trying to automate an application launched from a browser in robotMK. The selenium stuff seems to be working but the image recognition piece with Sikuli is failing because it is only seeing black images when it takes a screenshot. When I run the test outside of the robotMK runner it works great. Has anyone seen this or have a workaround?

Kind regards,
Jake

[simonmeggle]

Hi Jake, sounds to me like a problem with the desktop. Sikuli (as well as the ImagehorizonLibrary, which I prefer) need acess to the (physical) desktop. When Robotmk launches the test, I guess it runs with a different user than the one which is logged on the desktop.
When you are launching the test by hand, you are on the desktop - and this is why sikuli "sees" something.

My recommendations:

• switch to imagehorizonlibrary (and, if possible, leave a thumbs up to this pull request :-) )
• use Robotmk mode "external" and schedule robotmk-runner.py by Task Scheduler from the user which is logged on.

[jaketehpwner]

Thanks Simon,

Running from task scheduler seems to do the trick. I will also check out imagehorizonlibrary.