I'm new to scripting. I'm trying to find out how to target my cout to a field in a gui.
Any direction will be greatly appreciated.
johngalt10 0 Newbie Poster
myk45 48 Posting Whiz
Well, you can't use cout to do that. You will have to use other libraries. Here is one:
johngalt10 0 Newbie Poster
I'm new to scripting. I'm trying to find out how to target my cout to a field in a gui.
Any direction will be greatly appreciated.
Sorry I wasn't more specific. How do I output data to an exhisting gui like a webpage field within IE? I'm trying to build a script that will automate data entry through a web based application that is already in place.
death_oclock 103 Posting Whiz
You will have to use COM objects. MSDN provides a programming guide and a reference. These can be hard to understand so you may want to find a tutorial on google..
jonsca 1,059 Quantitative Phrenologist Team Colleague Featured Poster
I don't know if this is a viable idea (so I'm open to criticism), but couldn't you use something like libcurl and "POST" the form data to the URL rather than actually filling the form out on the webpage?
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