Embedding Maco Scheduler into another app

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David Skyba
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Embedding Maco Scheduler into another app

Post by David Skyba » Thu Mar 29, 2007 9:31 am

Is it possible to drive Macro Scheduler programatically from another application?

I have part of my logic ready from another projects (which reads data from database and autoenters them to another system through user screens).

Now I need to exchange original "entering" tool (WRQ Reflection) for MS. Does MS alone behave like ActiveX object? Or can I drive it in other way?

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David

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Marcus Tettmar
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Post by Marcus Tettmar » Thu Mar 29, 2007 10:18 am

No ActiveX like interface but you can run macros on the command line, or with Pro compile them to EXEs, and can therefore run macros from within other languages, other apps that allow to shell out to some other exe etc. Command line parms let you send variables into scripts, so you can pass data into your macros from the other application. Could also have your app create a script file (just write commands to a text file) to do what it needs, and then pass that file to Macro Scheduler to execute.
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