From: Charles Calvert <cbciv@...>
Date: 2010-10-30T03:30:12+09:00
Subject: Re: Web App with Windows GUI

On Thu, 28 Oct 2010 01:32:58 -0500, Mike Stephens <rubfor@recitel.net>
wrote in <6ef4d9ea409d335f1fc3237c9bb4579a@ruby-forum.com>:

>Charles Calvert wrote in post #957671:
>> Mike, is there any chance that you could tell us what this application
>> does?  Someone may be able to suggest an alternative that you could
>> automate directly from Ruby or indirectly via COM.
>
>Its a VB Health Insurance package. The application is to register, view
>and update new hospitals and spec|alists, and to allow them to check
>whether a patient has cover. So it's just reading and writing data to
>text boxes, dropdowns etc

Sorry, but I think that this falls into the category of being overly
fragile.  By "VB" do you mean Visual Basic?  If so, how is it
retrieving the data?  Is there a database or web service that it talks
to?  It might be easier to reverse engineer that (assuming that you're
legally allowed to do so, of course).

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