Automatic market uploading to Guardian?
jimibt wrote: ↑Fri Dec 06, 2019 12:10 pmautohotkey looks very powerful but simple to use. thanks for the link, will definitely have a use for this.sniffer66 wrote: ↑Fri Dec 06, 2019 12:01 pmHave a look herefirlandsfarm wrote: ↑Fri Dec 06, 2019 10:52 am
It seems like we are slowly getting there But … I have no idea what this is! Can you point me in the right direction to find out more.
https://www.autohotkey.com/
Personally I use auto-it at work, can be very powerful, but you will get similar results from both.
A quick search on the forum and help files should get you there quickly. It's just an automated key press on a schedule
I haven't used it in years, as I mentioned I now use Auto-it. I believe both started off very similar and one forked from the other.
AutoHotKey used to be the easier option to learn and I believe they used to have a macro recorder so you could easily set up anything repetitive in a few clicks.
Control clicking is preferable to mouse co-ord clicking as Windows position/state is irrelevant - assuming you can get the control info.
Auti-It scripting is BASIC based and you can do some very powerful stuff addressing Windows and Controls, IE functions etc Web scraping is very possible if you can script
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Thanks Sniffer, I'll have a read … I guess as the name suggests it automatically simulates a key press to a determined schedule as if you had pressed the key yourself at the scheduled time.sniffer66 wrote: ↑Fri Dec 06, 2019 12:01 pmHave a look here
https://www.autohotkey.com/
Personally I use auto-it at work, can be very powerful, but you will get similar results from both.
A quick search on the forum and help files should get you there quickly. It's just an automated key press on a schedule
No problem.firlandsfarm wrote: ↑Sun Dec 08, 2019 7:45 amThanks Sniffer, I'll have a read … I guess as the name suggests it automatically simulates a key press to a determined schedule as if you had pressed the key yourself at the scheduled time.sniffer66 wrote: ↑Fri Dec 06, 2019 12:01 pmHave a look here
https://www.autohotkey.com/
Personally I use auto-it at work, can be very powerful, but you will get similar results from both.
A quick search on the forum and help files should get you there quickly. It's just an automated key press on a schedule
Yes, at it's most basic. You can do some pretty complex stuff for any thing repetitive. Back in the day, when I used to poker bot we used it as the control program for our AI - opening multi site windows, resizing them. logging in and out, placing bets etc. Had scripts running to 1000's of lines. I miss those days
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This could be the Holy Grail I was seeking years ago but could not find a solution for (and nobody could give me the answer) and that is when I am looking for selections for 'normal' bets in the morning I want my database open with multiple views sized and positioned within it's window, browser windows open for Oddschecker and Betfair and a spreadsheet open all positioned and sized to fit which frankly was a pain every morning but I am getting the impression that using something like HotKey everything can be launched, sized and positioned at the press of a button. If that's correct then that sounds wonderful.sniffer66 wrote: ↑Mon Dec 09, 2019 8:03 amYes, at it's most basic. You can do some pretty complex stuff for any thing repetitive. Back in the day, when I used to poker bot we used it as the control program for our AI - opening multi site windows, resizing them. logging in and out, placing bets etc. Had scripts running to 1000's of lines. I miss those days
I can't speak definitively for AutoHotKey but you can definitely do all that in Auto-It. I do Systems Management in IT and we use it to manage non interactive wallboards to display alerts etc - drop a script in startup that launches all the apps\browsers, sizes them as required then loops through at a set interval, refreshing data as neededfirlandsfarm wrote: ↑Mon Dec 09, 2019 9:16 amThis could be the Holy Grail I was seeking years ago but could not find a solution for (and nobody could give me the answer) and that is when I am looking for selections for 'normal' bets in the morning I want my database open with multiple views sized and positioned within it's window, browser windows open for Oddschecker and Betfair and a spreadsheet open all positioned and sized to fit which frankly was a pain every morning but I am getting the impression that using something like HotKey everything can be launched, sized and positioned at the press of a button. If that's correct then that sounds wonderful.sniffer66 wrote: ↑Mon Dec 09, 2019 8:03 amYes, at it's most basic. You can do some pretty complex stuff for any thing repetitive. Back in the day, when I used to poker bot we used it as the control program for our AI - opening multi site windows, resizing them. logging in and out, placing bets etc. Had scripts running to 1000's of lines. I miss those days
Ideal for a morning startup as you detailed above
If you wanted to get really clever you can even scrape data from Oddschecker etc and drop into a file - something I'm working on myself at the moment
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Scrape data, now that's something I could be really interested in. I've tried some of the 'scrapers' that are available but I find them too darn complicated for what I want … I just want to follow some links and flat scrape as I go, I know the data is scrapeable because I can Copy it manually but whenever I have tried to use (so claimed intelligent) software I just can't get it to work.