Keyboard Macro Buffering question
- Posted by "paul larmuseau" <plarmuseau at pandora.be> Dec 15, 2003
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This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=3D_NextPart_000_0005_01C3C301.4B7888C0 charset=3D"iso-8859-1" I was digging abit in the Euphoria website and searching a solution for the= following application 1=B0 Suppose you want to connect FilemakerPro with a Scanning software and = an OCR package In a way you can install an MACRO -Recorder, thats a program where you assi= gn to keys an macro like you can do within Excell spreadsheets, or Visual b= asic.You endup recording the 'keystrokes' and come up with an kind of intui= tively written program, repeating the keystrokes... Hence opening one progr= am, copying the information from the scanner, sending it to the OCR engine,= copying the text and pasting in a datafield, copying the image and pasting= in an imagefield... You create your simple archive system. There exists alot of macro recording applications, that tend to cost easily= 50$, hence i wondered why this euphoria couldn't do the very same ? 2=B0 So suggestion (maybe the answer is its possible, but noone explored it yet ?) - If the PUTS(fn) would allow kind of PUTS(KEYB), you would be able to send= keystrokes emulating someone typing in the keyboard for external applicati= ons - If you would write alitle interface registering the GETS() and sending th= em directly as PUTS() you would be able to 'Macro record' those keystrokes,= so really doing it the Excell style spreadsheet macro recorder. The macrorecording thing is so easy and so intuitively, that you really nee= d no programmings skills to make programs cooperate... together, and save y= ourself tons of time doing things far more efficiently - once written, euphoria would be the 'only free macro tool'=20 - and it would be an easy platform to make softwareprograms collaborating w= ith the benefit of being able to add fe bitmap to jpg conversion during cop= y paste procedure, and extract 4 graphs for an 4document TIFF file, or scan= in a whole document and database and index the textfile. anyone can help me on this one ? the keyboard macro would solve already 90%= of the problem IMHO. The TIFF graph file splitting is a second problem and= the compression is a last problem (therefore i saw already some apllicatio= ns) thanks on advance Paul Larmuseau http://users.pandora.be/paul.larmuseau ------=3D_NextPart_000_0005_01C3C301.4B7888C0 Content-Type: text/html; charset=3D"iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=3DContent-Type content=3D"text/html; charset=3Diso-8859-1"= > <META content=3D"MSHTML 6.00.2800.1276" name=3DGENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=3D#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>I was digging abit in the Euphoria website= and=20 searching a solution for the following application</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>1=B0 Suppose you want to connect Filemaker= Pro with a=20 Scanning software and an OCR package</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>In a way you can install an MACRO -Recorde= r, thats=20 a program where you assign to keys an macro like you can do within Excell= =20 spreadsheets, or Visual basic.</FONT><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>You endup = recording=20 the 'keystrokes' and come up with an kind of intuitively written program,= =20 repeating the keystrokes... Hence opening one program, copying the informat= ion=20 from the scanner, sending it to the OCR engine, copying the text and pastin= g in=20 a datafield, copying the image and pasting in an imagefield... You create y= our=20 simple archive system.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>There exists alot of macro recording appli= cations,=20 that tend to cost easily 50$, hence i wondered why this euphoria couldn't d= o the=20 very same ?</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>2=B0 So suggestion</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>(maybe the answer is its possible, but noo= ne=20 explored it yet ?)</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>- If the PUTS(fn) would allow kind of PUTS= (KEYB),=20 you would be able to send keystrokes emulating someone typing in the keyboa= rd=20 for external applications</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>- If you would write alitle interface regi= stering=20 the GETS() and sending them directly as PUTS() you would be able to 'Macro= =20 record' those keystrokes, so really doing it the Excell style spreadsheet m= acro=20 recorder.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>The macrorecording thing is so easy and so= =20 intuitively, that you really need no programmings skills to make programs= =20 cooperate... together, and save yourself tons of time doing things far more= =20 efficiently</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>- once written, euphoria would be the 'onl= y free=20 macro tool' </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>- and it would be an easy platform to make= =20 softwareprograms collaborating with the benefit of being able to add fe bit= map=20 to jpg conversion during copy paste procedure, and extract 4 graphs for an= =20 4document TIFF file, or scan in a whole document and database and index the= =20 textfile.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>anyone can help me on this one ? the keybo= ard macro=20 would solve already 90% of the problem IMHO. The TIFF graph file splitting = is a=20 second problem and the compression is a last problem (therefore i saw alrea= dy=20 some apllications)</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>thanks on advance</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Paul Larmuseau</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2><A=20 href=3D"http://users.pandora.be/paul.larmuseau">http://users.pandora.be/pau= l.larmuseau</A></FONT></DIV> ------=3D_NextPart_000_0005_01C3C301.4B7888C0--