On 12/30/15, Sandro Cumerlato <[email protected]> wrote: > No need to code at all, look at AutoHotKey: http://ahkscript.org
Needless to say that the ICT department will NOT let me install that. In fact they refuse to install anything that makes my life easier. They aren't willing to let me use some other tools I've written either, but it looks like they are not clever enough to prevent me from putting an executable somewhere on the fileserver and execute it (so, I cheat them). (They won't let you uncompress an executable from a zip though, so again I trick them, renaming a file to .exe is allowed.) An example: copy-pasting from the aforementioned program is a PITA. If I want to copy the list of actual medication into a letter (MS Office) and use Copy-Paste as plaintext, then what should have been a simple 8 lines of text becomes a staggering 75 pages of text counting > 1200 (mostly empty) lines. (The undelying HTML is rather complex, even though it shows as just 8 lines of text in the browser, and pasting the HTL is even worseand makes the document you paste it in unusable.) And because the firm in question refuses to fix that in some way (they say that nobody else using this program ever needed such a thing), I wrote a tool to parse the text on the clipboard an put a sanitized version back on the clipboard. This saves me much time when e.g.writing a letter, referring one of my patients to the hospital. The ICT department does not want me to use this tool, because: * They did not buy it, so there is no (payed) support * The software is not from MS, and therefore it cannot ever be reliable Needless to say that the ICT department is not willing to write a JavaScript which could perform the same task (I suck at JS). Their solution: * just edit the 75 pages of blank lines, or * do not copy, just write it by hand (and make mistakes!) The main policy here seems to be that ICT is not supposed to make my life easier, It is my task to make life easier for the ICT staff and the providers of our software. This is the world I live in. I must stop ranting now, My bloodpressure is spiking. Bart -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
