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Question #212735 on Sikuli changed:
https://answers.launchpad.net/sikuli/+question/212735

    Status: Open => Answered

RaiMan proposed the following answer:
Since you seem to have knowledge in Java programming: I recommend to use the Java API directly and write the bot as Java app. 
http://doc.sikuli.org/faq/030-java-dev.html#how-to-use-sikuli-script-in-your-java-programs

-- 1. check Sikuli's text feature 
before doing anything else, you should check wether you can read the chat content as text (Region.text()) sufficiently.
Without this, I do not see any sense in such a bot.
If you have any chance, to adjust the used font, then this might be a possibility, to optimize the OCR results.
If possible, copy to clipboard is always an alternative option, though a bit more complex, because you might have to position the cursor and/or the selection.

--2. knowing the user responded
I guess, there is some area on the screen, that contains the chat protocol in some outfit. The easiest way normally is to observe a specific region about visual changes. Sometimes a chat protocol has some symbols showing up at specific actions. The options you have depend on the app.

Generally: Sikuli is WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get). So the
approach for a Sikuli workflow is to strictly think visually (what
happens on the screen, when something else happens (mouse., keyboard or
any other triggers)) and put this visual workflow in a robust, fast and
reliable chain of Sikuli feature usages.

In the faq section (https://answers.launchpad.net/sikuli/+faqs) there
are some valuable tips, that cannot be found elsewhere.

Come back any time, if you need more tips to get on the road.

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