Peter, I think the piece of info we are all missing (or guessing wrongly about) is:
the existing club membership system - is it a web-based system, or an app that runs on your desktop. We're all kind of assuming it's a web page, but I now suspect maybe it isn't. If it is a web page - then the answers so far are all relevant, and should be straightforward to try out. [My suggestion re. the browser widget still feels like the "right official" way to do it - but personally I'd look at the html and see if I could POST the correct info - i.e. what Richard said :-) ] If it's a custom app, then it's a very different question - and I currently have no idea. If so, please say a little bit more about the custom app, or put up a screenshot / video somewhere. Alex. On 12/12/2021 18:29, Peter Reid via use-livecode wrote:
Thanks Alex, Dan & Tom for responding to this, but I suspect that I didn't explain things well enough, let me elaborate… 1. Periodically we have small batches of new members joining a club. We have their details in a CSV file which we'd normally think of doing some kind of batch upload. 2. However, the existing club membership system doesn't have a batch load facility only an on-screen form (such as the following) to be typed in: +---------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Surname:[.............] Firstname(s):[...........] Initials:[......] | | | | Address:[.............] Town:[.............] Phone: [.............] | | [.............] Postcode:[.........] Mobile:[.............] | | | | Email:[....................] GiftAid:[x] Payment:(o)Bank ( )Chq | +---------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ 3. We want a way to upload a group of new members by 'driving' the input fields, i.e. our app would click into each field, checkbox, radiobox and 'type' in the details. 4. We don't have access to the membership system's coding, it's one off the shelf. We just want do what we might have attempted some years ago, during the terminal/command line days! In those old days, we'd redirect the stdin, stdout, stderror. So my query is really as follows: a) is this kind of 'channel' redirection possible, can we send mouse clicks, type keys to enter text into fields etc? b) has anyone done something like this? c) does anyone have any methods and/or code they can let me have for this? My overview of what's required is as follows (assuming no show-stoppers): - I make an overlay map, transparent everywhere except where there are input fields – this could be an actual map with "X"s over entry fields, spaces elsewhere, but might simply be a list of objects expressed as coordinate rectangles - we take the name of a field, 'Surname' say, and lookup its location on the screen - we position our virtual mouse to click into the location where the equivalent field can be found - we enter its value as virtual keystrokes and click the 'tab' key to move to the next input object Any idea whether this is possible and any code examples?! Thanks. Peter _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
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