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At the most fundamental level, WinBatch allows you to automate the following
activities:
1.) Starting and stopping Windows and DOS applications
2.) Issuing Menu commands
3.) Sending simulated keystrokes and (to a limited degree) mouseclicks
4.) Reading and writing text files
5.) Performing File operations (copy, move, rename, delete, etc.)
It has some more powerful capabilities (clipboard, OLE, DLLs, etc.) but
those 5 above are used most frequently. So if there is something you need
to automate in MetaStock that you are capable of doing using only the
keyboard (even if it is really tedious), WinBatch can handle it - no
problemo.
You do need to know a little bit about programming to use it though. It
doesn't have a "record my actions into a macro" capability. The language
itself is very BASIC-like and it comes with an editor environment that
allows easy debugging.
I'm unclear on exactly what you mean by "see a list of charts or layouts
for, say 15, flagged stocks." Feel free to privately send me a detailed
scenario (chipa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) and I'll let you know if I think WinBatch +
MSPro 6 can do it.
Chip
http://coolhistory.com/ChipsCharts
a "terrific stock sector site"! ;-)
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:owner-metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of CMA
Sent: Friday, April 23, 1999 7:57 AM
To: Metastock Digest
Subject: Winbatch
Chip Anderson (visit his terrific stock sector site)
mentioned Winbatch. One question: does it replace the
functionality of MSPRO macros, which disappeared after
version 4.5?
The main reason I don't use ver. 6.0 and stay with
ver. 4.5 is that there are no macros in the later
versions, so it is impossible to see a list of charts
or layouts for, say 15, flagged stocks. This can be
done easily with an Autorun Macro in version 4.5
Equis has been promising for years to implement
macros in the later versions, but it was never done
and no sign of it. The later versions added various
bells and whistles like Experts, but cut the heart
(Macros) out of the program and made it much less
useful.
So, Chip, can one run the equivalent of Autorun
macros with Winbatch, or is there a cheaper alternative.?
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