[ale] automating Cut and Paste in windoze

[Lightner, Jeff]

Many tools will dump to ascii and you could then manipulate the ascii and re-import to your forms.  Of course it assumes your forms are built in a tool that will allow import from ascii.

It amazed me years ago when folks began making the switch from hand-written to computer printed reports how people would always assume the computer printed stuff was correct but scrutinize every number on a hand written report as if it someone had set out to lie to them.   Most of them had never heard of GIGO apparently.

From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of George Allen
Sent: Monday, April 14, 2014 9:34 AM
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
Subject: Re: [ale] automating Cut and Paste in windoze


The PowerShell allows access to all COM or .net objects, which means it is possible to access whatever you need, but you'll need a Windows developer to do it. You may also want to look at some of the scripts for the usb-rubberducky, since I think these can do screen scraping also...
-George
On Apr 14, 2014 8:42 AM, "Charles Shapiro" <hooterpincher at gmail.com<mailto:hooterpincher at gmail.com>> wrote:
IIRC the GUI has some (extremely limited) scripting features, at least as of XP.  I suspect the answer a real Windows Guy would give you is "VBScript", but my experiences with that language have not been easy.
-- CHS

On Sun, Apr 13, 2014 at 8:18 PM, mike thornton <mrmthorntonlinux at gmail.com<mailto:mrmthorntonlinux at gmail.com>> wrote:
The suits have recently hired 30+ special projects people to manually correct billing errors, which were caused by operator error in the first place.
At this point the human factor is required, but the time spend moving a field from one app to another and then scanning the screen output is about as fast as using an etch-a-sketch.

It pains me to watch this process, but I'm at a loss since I spent decades avoiding the MS world.

The question is, can Perl or other languages interact with MS office and web based apps to automate the process and extract the pertinent information ?




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