Marcus, too bad you didn't take me up on my offer - you missed hearing my squeals of delight! That did the trick. I was able to run the first script I posted which pops up the Format Symbol dialog and switches symbols. So let me get this straight. I'm the admin and install and run programs in that a...

I'm a novice wrt Windows admin so please bear with me. The system was preconfigured by the manufacturer and to my surprise my account is an admin account. Both TradeStation and Macro 12 were installed by me. When I installed Macro 12 I was asked if I wanted to allow it to change the machine and I ag...

It's a compiled desktop app. The browser is invoked from the app and is used for account services, such as wire transfers and adding/deleting data feeds, etc. Anyways, I'm on 8.x, but always go to the website directly from the browser since the app/browser path will take over an existing page (for a...

JRL, thanks much for all these ideas. Unfortunately, the mouse commands do not work either (we need an emoticon for frickin' frustrated!). I will try the clipboard and SetControlText techniques if we can somehow get a dialog up (which will probably mean Send works). I'm not sure what you mean by the...

In addition to Send, Press is not working (see my previous post). There is something fundamentally wrong under the covers.

Thanks for the response. The press ALT Right sequence did not even work manually. But I did try the simplest sequence I could find, pressing F1 manually which pops up a Help screen. But when I tried the following script: Let>WaitTime=2 SetFocus>TradeStation 8.8* Wait>WaitTime Press F1 ...there was s...

Has anyone tried to automate an application which could not seem to receive Send output? I have successfully sent text and/or control sequences to Notepad, the Ruby 1.92 interactive interpreter, and the ActiveState Komodo 6.1 multilanguage editor. However, the app I'm trying to automate, TradeStatio...