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

[Sandro Cumerlato]

It seems to me offtopic, but you don't need to install AHK, just use it as
a portable app.

I live in a similar world! LOL

Sandro


On 30 December 2015 at 20:28, Bart <bartjunk64 at gmail.com> wrote:

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