SOS! How to do Windows automation?

[networm]

Hi all,

I need your help urgently!

I am in a housing lottery situation now. And I was late, so I am on the
waitlist.

So my task is the following:

1. Keep monitoring a website 24 x 7 (including login, filling in some
tables, and submiting some clicks and choices, and then extract the
"Number_of_Available_Spots" field in that table, and then save it in a file
named XXX);

2. Write a Matlab program to keep monitoring the content in the file named
XXX 24 x 7, and if it is avaible, it should automatically give me a call.

My questions are:

a. How to generate a call from PC to my cell phone?

I am thinking of two ways of solution:

1. Send a short message to my cell phone, through the cell phone's
provider's webpage (Cingular)

2. Generate a call from within Skype to my cell phone.

But how?

b. How to link all the above tasks together on Windows XP?

I want them run in sequence.

c. Do you have good recommendations of webpage tracking automation software
that can automatically monitor the change of a certain field on a webpage?

Thanks a lot!

 

[expert-services]

You can try our windows automation software, Workspace Macro
Pro.http://www.tethyssolutions.com/macro-automation.htm

Then you can use Run Macro command to link all macros together.
Workspace macro pro doesn't have a feature to give a call. But if you
have other software that can make a call, you can record a macro for
that and call that macro.

Alternatively you can use Automation Anywhere. It has ability to send
email notification and compare values so that you may not need Matlab.
http://www.tethyssolutions.com/automation-software.htm

-Automation Experts

 

[JP]

use MSCOMM32 component with vb or c++, search msdn.microsoft.com for more
info.