It seems to me offtopic, but you don't need to install AHK, just use it as a portable app.
I live in a similar world! LOL Sandro On 30 December 2015 at 20:28, Bart <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >
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