From: James Britt <james.britt@...>
Date: 2008-08-02T05:45:31+09:00
Subject: Re: Automated filling-in of external Windows application fields ...?

Axel Etzold wrote:
> Dear all,
> 
> I have around 50 files which I need to open in an external (Windows) program, one after the other.
> As each of them is about 100 MB larger, I'd like to automate the process.
> The external application contains some data which are needed for the processing which I cannot
> reproduce in another easy way.


Look at AutoItX, and google around for using the COM interface with 
Win32OLE for scripting via Ruby.



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