On 2021-01-16 at 15:42:44 -0500, DonK <don81...@comcast.net.invalid> wrote:
> Yes, Windows. Iterating open windows with the Window's API is easy the > hard (very hard) part is sending keystrokes to those windows to Save > them. It's very tricky because the timing is critical. > > You have to use one of those "spy" utilities to get the name and > classid for the controls that you want to send a command to, then use > the Window's API functions SendMessage or PostMessage to send the > message directly to the control or just put it in the message que. > > Like sending an "s" to the File menu to (S)ave. It's more complicated > than you would think and it doesn't work very well. It's like pushing > on a string. Then don't do that? ;-) I'm no Windows expert (nor even a user), but do those applications have a scripting interface? (DDE? OLE? COM? Do those letters ring a bell? The right bell? Are those technologies current?) What you're trying to do sounds like working *against* those applications rather than with them. > For example, I've found a need to parse text documents quite a number > of times over the years. Basic/VB is great at doing that. How's > Python? Python can do that. Can you expand on "parse" and "text documents"? -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
