Floating window on Windows

Mark Wieder mwieder at ahsoftware.net
Sat Apr 10 14:02:48 EDT 2004


Thomas-

Saturday, April 10, 2004, 5:15:13 AM, you wrote:

TMI> I am looking at a new project. On the Mac I will have a floating tool
TMI> pallet using applescript to control other apps with. Can some one
TMI> provide general information on what I can do on the Windows side to
TMI> allow REV in a floating window to control other apps. By control I mean
TMI> both application commands (cut, copy, new, paste, quit, etc.) and
TMI> sending text to editable fields in the application (word page, excell
TMI> table, etc.).

TMI> Also, is there a way to do this with out going down the applescript
TMI> route??

You might look into spawning a VBScript task. IIRC the System object
is what you want. The language isn't very well documented, but I could
probably dig up some urls if you need them.

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-Mark Wieder
 mwieder at ahsoftware.net



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