General Question

[Guest]

Is there any way, using a windows service, to manipulate a third party
software. Here is an explanation. My company uses software, that I did not
write, to keep up with materials that are being shipped from the plant. In
the software there are to textboxes that are filled out. One is for tare
weight and the other is for the gross weight. The person using the software
has to enter the weights manually that he reads from scale interface. As you
can see there is alot of room for error here. I have made a program that
will automatically post the weights to a form in a program that I wrote. Is
there anyway that I could run a service that would capture the weight from
the scale interface and lets just say paste that value on the corresponding
textbox in the third party software.

Thanks for any help,
DCSTech

 

[solex]

Assuming that the third-party form has the focus (this is a big assumption)
you could just stuff the keyboard, by the use of send keys. If the
third-party has not provided an API then this is the only solution I can
think of.

Dan