New topic: Can REALbasic "talk" to other programs?
<http://forums.realsoftware.com/viewtopic.php?t=38298> Page 1 of 1 [ 1 post ] Previous topic | Next topic Author Message barrytraver Post subject: Can REALbasic "talk" to other programs?Posted: Thu Mar 24, 2011 4:27 am Joined: Fri Sep 30, 2005 1:53 pm Posts: 691 Location: Philadelphia, PA I'm posting this note in the Off-Topic area because I don't know whether something like this can be done by REALbasic or whether I need to do it with some other utility. Can REALbasic be used as an automator of actions in another program? Here's what I want to do, but I want to be able to do it automatically: Using Firefox, I want to do the following: (1) Go to a particular starting Web page. (I don't mind doing this step manually in Firefox.) (2) Click on "File." (3) Click on "Print." (4) Click on "OK." (5) "Increment" the URL in the address. (If the starting URL is "Something.com/001.hrml," then change that to "Something.com/002.hrml." If the URL is "Something.com/002.hrml," then change that to "Something.com/003.hrml." And so on.) (6) Press "Enter." (7) Repeat steps (2) - (6) as desired, either from some sort of script or (if necessary) using (hopefully) no more than one keystroke per Web page (rather than the larger number normally required from within Firefox). The purpose of this is to print out a succession of Web pages (say, from "Something.com/012.hrml" through "Something.com/30.hrml") without having to manually go through half a dozen or so steps for each Web page. Is REALbasic able to talk to Firefox in this way? Or is some utility like AutoHotKeys necessary to do something like this? (I'm using the Windows version of REALbasic.) Thanks in advance for any suggestions or advice. Barry Traver Top Display posts from previous: All posts1 day7 days2 weeks1 month3 months6 months1 year Sort by AuthorPost timeSubject AscendingDescending Page 1 of 1 [ 1 post ] -- Over 1500 classes with 29000 functions in one REALbasic plug-in collection. The Monkeybread Software Realbasic Plugin v9.3. http://www.monkeybreadsoftware.de/realbasic/plugins.shtml [email protected]
