Simba is a program used to repeat certain (complicated) tasks. Typically these tasks involve using the mouse and keyboard. Simba is programmable, which means you can design your own logic and steps that Simba will follow, based upon certain input such as colors on the screen.
The scripting language used is Lape which uses a Pascal-like syntax.
Documentation for Simba is available here.
Simba is available for:
- Windows (32 & 64 bit)
- Linux (64 bit & AArch64) - Requires usage of X11
- MacOS (64 bit & M1/M2) - Untested, but runs
Some dependencies are required for both building and running on Linux/MacOS.
Linux:
Xtstsudo apt-get install libxtst-devgtk2sudo apt-get install gtk2.0 libgtk2.0-devlibffisudo apt-get install libffi-devopensslsudo apt-get install openssl(for https requests)
MacOS:
libffibrew install libffi
Simba is written in Pascal with Lazarus. Lazarus is available here: https://sourceforge.net/projects/lazarus/files/ the latest version should work.
Steps:
- Clone the Simba repository & install submodules
git clone --recurse-submodules https://github.com/Villavu/Simba. - Open
Source/Simba.lpiin Lazarus. - Select the build mode required.
- Build Simba (Run > Build) and when completed the Simba executable will be located in the root directory of the repository.
- Simba dates back to ~2004. Originally SCAR, then SCAR Divi, then open source clone named Simba.
- Simba has always been a hobby project and keeping its roots in pascal is enjoyable to some!
- Pascal is readable, type-safe, cross-platform and fast.