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Greg Truby
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Hi,
While I know quite a bit about programming Excel using VBA, I fear that I do not know diddly squat about creating a free-standing, executable application in Visual Basic (or C or any other language).
Here's my basic problem - every day I have to tranfer data from a few fields on one web-based application over to another web-based application, click the "Search" button, wait for results and then paste data from other fields returned by the 2nd web page's search back into the first web page.
I'd like to know if it's even possible to write some kind of an executable program that I could have running in the background, intercepting keystrokes such that if I hit <Ctrl+F11> for example, the application will copy the data from the one website to the other, and, ideally, "click" the enter button.
So I have two basic questions:
A) Is this even possible?
B) If this is possible, how tough would it be? I realize this is a very subjective question. As I said, I'm quite good at progamming VBA in Excel. Is this something that even an experienced programmer would find challenging? Or would an experienced programmer find this fairly simple? (Assuming, of course, that it's even possible.)
Best regards, Greg [Excel 2003, 2007 & 2010 on Win 7]
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While I know quite a bit about programming Excel using VBA, I fear that I do not know diddly squat about creating a free-standing, executable application in Visual Basic (or C or any other language).
Here's my basic problem - every day I have to tranfer data from a few fields on one web-based application over to another web-based application, click the "Search" button, wait for results and then paste data from other fields returned by the 2nd web page's search back into the first web page.
I'd like to know if it's even possible to write some kind of an executable program that I could have running in the background, intercepting keystrokes such that if I hit <Ctrl+F11> for example, the application will copy the data from the one website to the other, and, ideally, "click" the enter button.
So I have two basic questions:
A) Is this even possible?
B) If this is possible, how tough would it be? I realize this is a very subjective question. As I said, I'm quite good at progamming VBA in Excel. Is this something that even an experienced programmer would find challenging? Or would an experienced programmer find this fairly simple? (Assuming, of course, that it's even possible.)
Best regards, Greg [Excel 2003, 2007 & 2010 on Win 7]
Continue reading...