Curious George the Monkey said:
Joe,
I have tried all that, this is a serious problem.
Maybe Microsoft should solve it.
Curious George the Monkey said:
John,
The data is on a website, each page has 1 record of data with about 20
feilds. To top it off
I think its written in java. Thus to put the client records off the
website I have to visit each
webpage one by one.
Why don't you spend some time learning how to use the winsock control, or
even the web activeX control. There is absolute NO reason for you to be
using cut and paste. You have all this incredible technology at your
disposal, and you are wasting hours and hours by cutting and pasting one by
one. If you are working for your employer, and you have to pick up some
paper at the store, and you decide to walk while there is a several cars
available, then you are in fact wasting many valuable hours of your
employer. resources. You should be competent enough to know when to use a
car to pick up paper as opposed to spending the whole day walking to the
store to get that paper. In many companies, this kind of wastage is grounds
for dismissal.
There is a certainly point when wasting so many resources of your employer,
that you are liable for wasting your employer dollars. You owe yourself, and
your employer the honesty of a least having competent people to do a
particular job. Cutting and pasting records from a web site one by one is
WORSE then walking when a car is available. You need some serous
re-evaluating of your use of technology here. Where I come from, people who
do things like waste 8 hours of the employers time is grounds for dismissal.
And, if this is a personal project, then you just wasted 8 hours that you
could have given to charity, or other good causes to make the world
a better place.
I don't know how large of a job this is, or how many names/pages you need to
copy. However, the fact that you seem un-willing to contact the web vendor
kind of hints that the information you are taking is being miss-used
(however, I have no idea here).
Anyway, lets get back on topic here. I would also consider cutting and
pasting a WHOLE PAGE at a time, and then writing some code to parse the
data.
At least this would speed things up by 20 times (or however many names are
on a page).
Regardless, your current approach is one of incompetence, and the money and
time you are wasting could have been better used to help the needy and the
poor of the world instead of you getting sore fingers.
Something is SERIOUSLY wrong here in both the approach used, the waste of
time
and energy, and the fact that the data cannot be given to you in a more
usable format. You need to get some people who understand this technology,
and realize the MANY possible solutions as opposed to trying to speed up
cutting and pasting. It is as if you are asking how you can walk
faster...when a car is available for your use!
The approaches here are all wrong, and you need to spend some time obtaining
a better solution...not how to speed up cut and paste...