Building service in Windows VM

[Micro$oft]

Hi all,

First post to the forum! Hope I don't annoy too many people

This may be simple may be not - I'm a linux guy, so this is unchartered territory to me.

I'm keen on setting up a service on my Windows box - this'll allow me to input data one end, use the proprietary program to do its stuff, and then get the data out the other end. It's basically because I need to be able to convert from one format to the other without all the pointey clickey stuff.

Simple services are fine - it's not much different from a UNIX point of view, but to actually get the program to *do* anything's another matter.

My main stumbling block is therefore the following:

The application I need to use requires user input. How can I make the process completely automated so that I can have what is essentially a wrapper doing the work of entering the data according to user input from another data system?

It's a .jsp based box controlling the windows VM - so whatever you call it, it's an ugly hybrid of a kind!

Kind regards,

Ronald.

[cluberti]

First, welcome to THE forum. We're glad to have you here, and hopefully we can help you (and maybe you can reciprocate) in the future on something.

As to your question, if it's something that happens in a repeatable way, or on a set schedule, consider AutoIT to automate the keyboard and mouse input. If it's something you can kick off, you can always use vbscript to send keypad information, although mouse information is nigh impossible without something like autoit.