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Number   :  4570
Date     :  2003-05-11
Author   :  yodaslo
Subject  :  Re: DOS Automatic DOS Keystroke tool
Size(KB) :  3


Hello,
garrydeane wrote-
>I'm surprised that you 
>couldn't get Autoit to work

Well, I could get it to work,
but I couldn't figure out how
to tell Autoit to enter yesterdays date.

Yes, I do have to enter a date for 
which day I want the information for,
and since it's always yesterdays sales 
I need the transaction report for, I 
have to tell it yesterdays date.

Thanks for taking the time to reply. I'll look into your suggestions

Rich

>
--- In xxcopy@yahoogroups.com, "garrydeane"  wrote:
> --- In xxcopy@yahoogroups.com, "yodaslo"  wrote:
> 
> > I am trying to automate a 
> > task (print a report from DOS POS 
> > Program) which takes too much time 
> > to do by hand daily. I would like 
> > to set it up to print the report 
> > daily, so that xxcopy can back it 
> > up nightly, yet keystokes have to 
> > be entered to tell the program what 
> > report details I want. I managed to 
> > get the xxcopy part of it working once the
> > report completes, but I can't get the 
> > report part.
> > 
> > I've test a couple of programs designed to automate
> > keystrokes in programs that run in DOS or a DOS window,
> > but all have been extremely difficult to implement due
> > to a lack of a "record keystrokes" capability for the
> > DOS area. 
> > 
> > I've tried AutoIt, Automate5, and Fabsoft's Shortcut, 
> > and one more I can't remember the name of, and although
> > Shortcut would do the job, you had to enter the date of
> > the report by hand in the DOS program, which defeats the
> > purpose.
> > 
> > Anyone here using such a program to automate keystrokes
> > in DOS or a DOS window?
> 
> I'm surprised that you couldn't get Autoit to work. It should do so 
> in a DOS window (but not pure MS-DOS).
> 
> I have succesfully use Key-fake as a simple keyboard stuffer (see 
Key-
> fake.zip http://sac-ftp.externet.hu/utiltask4.html). It is pretty 
> basic though - you just pass it a list of characters or key codes 
to 
> pass to the program. There's no control logic like Autoit and it 
> certainly doesn't do any keystroke recording. Maybe one of the 
other 
> utilities listed at the above site might do what you want.
> 
> I don't understand your reference to having to enter the date by 
hand 
> in the DOS program. Do you mean that the POS program needs to have 
> the date entered prior to printing the report? If this is the case, 
> there are a number of utilities and/or batch techniques for getting 
> the date into an environment variable. After you have done this, 
you 
> could create your macro program key sequence dynamically by echoing 
> the appropriate key codes/characters to a batch file then executing 
> that.
> 
> For example, suppose the key sequence for your program to print was 
P 
> (for print), dd-mm-yy (today's date), Enter, Q (quit). Using LMOD 
> (http://home.mnet-online.de/horst.muc/) and KEY-FAKE you could do 
the 
> following:
> 
> @echo off
> echo @echo off>printit.bat
> echo:|date|lmod /s/- key-fake "P" [$6]-[$5]-[$7] 13 "Q">>printit.bat
> echo yourprog>>printit.bat
> call printit.bat
> xxcopy  
> 
> Garry



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