<div dir="ltr"><div>It seems to me offtopic, but you don't need to install AHK, just use it as a portable app.</div><div><br></div><div>I live in a similar world! LOL</div><div><br></div><div>Sandro</div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 30 December 2015 at 20:28, Bart <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bartjunk64@gmail.com" target="_blank">bartjunk64@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">On 12/30/15, Sandro Cumerlato <<a href="mailto:sandro.cumerlato@gmail.com">sandro.cumerlato@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
<br>
> No need to code at all, look at AutoHotKey: <a href="http://ahkscript.org" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://ahkscript.org</a><br>
<br>
</span>Needless to say that the ICT department will NOT let me install that.<br>
In fact they refuse to install anything that makes my life easier.<br>
They aren't willing to let me use some other tools I've written<br>
either, but it looks like they are not clever enough to prevent me<br>
from putting an executable somewhere on the fileserver and execute it<br>
(so, I cheat them).<br>
(They won't let you uncompress an executable from a zip though, so<br>
again I trick them, renaming a file to .exe is allowed.)<br>
<br>
An example: copy-pasting from the aforementioned program is a PITA.<br>
If I want to copy the list of actual medication into a letter (MS<br>
Office) and use Copy-Paste as plaintext, then what should have been a<br>
simple 8 lines of text becomes a staggering 75 pages of text counting<br>
> 1200 (mostly empty) lines.<br>
(The undelying HTML is rather complex, even though it shows as just 8<br>
lines of text in the browser, and pasting the HTL is even worseand<br>
makes the document you paste it in unusable.)<br>
<br>
And because the firm in question refuses to fix that in some way (they<br>
say that nobody else using this program ever needed such a thing), I<br>
wrote a tool to parse the text on the clipboard an put a sanitized<br>
version back on the clipboard.<br>
<br>
This saves me much time when e.g.writing a letter, referring one of my<br>
patients to the hospital.<br>
<br>
The ICT department does not want me to use this tool, because:<br>
* They did not buy it, so there is no (payed) support<br>
* The software is not from MS, and therefore it cannot ever be reliable<br>
<br>
Needless to say that the ICT department is not willing to write a<br>
JavaScript which could perform the same task (I suck at JS).<br>
<br>
Their solution:<br>
* just edit the 75 pages of blank lines, or<br>
* do not copy, just write it by hand (and make mistakes!)<br>
<br>
The main policy here seems to be that ICT is not supposed to make my<br>
life easier, It is my task to make life easier for the ICT staff and<br>
the providers of our software.<br>
<br>
This is the world I live in.<br>
<br>
I must stop ranting now,<br>
My bloodpressure is spiking.<br>
<div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><br>
Bart<br>
<br>
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