App to automagically send keyboard commands

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Judith Baltsar

Hello everybody,
I use a program very often (KyPlot) which doesn't have an autosave
function which can be a little troublesome if the proggy crashes. I
remember to have seen a utility sometime/somewhere that sends keyboard
commands (e.g. CTRL + S every 5 minutes) to the active program. In
this way I could fake an autosave function.

Does anybody know such a program
Thanks a lot
Judith
 
remember to have seen a utility sometime/somewhere that sends keyboard
commands (e.g. CTRL + S every 5 minutes) to the active program. In
this way I could fake an autosave function.
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AutoIt...

www.hiddensoft.com

here would be your script...

Repeat,0
Sleep,5000
Send,^s
EndRepeat




;Larry
 
larrydalooza:
You wrote on 8 Nov 2003 20:20:42 -0800:

??>> remember to have seen a utility sometime/somewhere that sends keyboard
??>> commands (e.g. CTRL + S every 5 minutes) to the active program. In
??>> this way I could fake an autosave function.

l> AutoIt...

l> www.hiddensoft.com

l> here would be your script...

l> Repeat,0
l> Sleep,5000
l> Send,^s
l> EndRepeat


Just for safety sake, I'd throw in a "Winwaitactive, {Program_Name}" at the
top.



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Judith Baltsar <[email protected]> wrote:
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Hello everybody,
I use a program very often (KyPlot) which doesn't have an autosave
function which can be a little troublesome if the proggy crashes. I
remember to have seen a utility sometime/somewhere that sends keyboard
commands (e.g. CTRL + S every 5 minutes) to the active program. In
this way I could fake an autosave function.
Click to expand...
Does anybody know such a program
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You have an answer already in AutoIt. I am curious as to which version
of Kyplot you are using that is buggy.

I have 3 of the last freeware versions that I could find here if you
would like to try another version:

http://www.woundedmoon.org/win32/kyplot.html

Kyplot v2.0 beta 13 5,015,573 bytes.

Kyplot v2.0 beta 13f 8,311,807 bytes.

Kyplot v2.0 beta 15 5,018,297 bytes
 
You have an answer already in AutoIt. I am curious as to which version
of Kyplot you are using that is buggy.

I have 3 of the last freeware versions that I could find here if you
would like to try another version:
Click to expand...


Hello,
I use the latest free beta 15. It is not really buggy but there is a
glitch sometimes when I build complex graphs or many graphs on a
page. I sometimes get a "unable to open file" error then and the file
won't open although upon saving everything was OK. In this cases I use
an older version (I think it's the beta 13) to open the file (same
error message but it will open anyway) and normally I am able to save
most of my work to a new file.

Thanks or your offer
Judth
 
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