[Lazarus] [off-topic] Send a mousemove or a keydown to a specific window in IE

[Sandro Cumerlato]

No need to code at all, look at AutoHotKey: http://ahkscript.org

Sandro
On 30 Dec 2015 18:34, "Bart" <bartjunk64 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> As ususal the programmers of one of my tools at work have decided to
> make life a little more painfull.
>
> Let me explain,
>
> The program in question is a website (running in IE, since IT guys
> only allow IE).
> The website is a front end to an electronic prescribtion system.
> For security reasons the websites logs me out every 15 minutes, if
> there has been no key or mouse activity.
>
> While I get the reason for this, at my workplace this makes no sense
> at all (my compuer locks up if I do nothing for 5 minutes).
> And it is severly messing up my work flow.
> On a typical stretch of work (say 2 hours on 1 ward), I have to
> re-login to this website at least 6 times.
> Needless to say our in house ICT department is of no help.
>
> So, I came up with a plan.
> I would like to make a utility that sends either a keystroke or a
> mousemove to this specific window in IE (actually a Tab inside IE)
> every 10 minutes.
>
> Problem: I have absolutely no clue at all how to achive this.
>
> It only needs to work on Windows (actually in a Citrix client)
> It only needs to work on IE
> It may be hackish,it may be dirty, I don't care.
> Preferrably no additional third party libraries are required.
>
> Bart
>
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