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  • Scripting/Automation for Win 3.1

    From kirkspragg@21:2/150 to All on Sun Sep 22 17:22:33 2024
    Hey there! I've been playing arund with win 3.1 a bit lately & wonder if any of the wise people here know of something like Autoit our Auto Hot Key thats works in Win 3.1?

    The build in macro recorder isn't quite flexible enough (seem to rely heavily on timing) so I need a proper scripting language that can wait on windows to appear and take actions ect

    I've tried the earliest versions of Autoit and Auto Hot Key I can find and they seem to need win 95 or win nt as a minimum.

    If anyone is aware of anything that would work in win 3.1 it appreciate it.

    I'm trying to bulk convert a bunch of old video for windows encoded AVIs using the video for windows AVI editor. This is to get them using a codec my 386 can run. The steps to follow are the same for each vid, but timing between steps is variable due to the differing sizes of the vids.

    The menus & command required all have keybindings so this should be simple enough assuming I can find a scripting language that will work.... would visual basic be able do it???

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  • From acn@21:3/127.1 to kirkspragg on Fri Oct 4 14:13:00 2024
    Am 22.09.24 schrieb kirkspragg@21:2/150 in FSX_RETRO:

    Hallo kirkspragg,

    Hey there! I've been playing arund with win 3.1 a bit lately & wonder if
    any of the wise people here know of something like Autoit our Auto Hot Key thats works in Win 3.1?

    I don't know how much of real 'scripting' is possible with it, but
    AFAIR Norton Utilities for Windows and in PC Tools for Windows both
    featured a macro language.
    Maybe have a look there?

    Regards,
    Anna

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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@21:4/122 to acn on Fri Oct 4 08:03:00 2024
    acn wrote to kirkspragg <=-

    I don't know how much of real 'scripting' is possible with it, but
    AFAIR Norton Utilities for Windows and in PC Tools for Windows both featured a macro language.
    Maybe have a look there?

    There was a whole community based around 4DOS - it has some very
    interesting batch extensions and extensions overall for DOS.

    I think there's still a 4DOS echo on Fidonet, although it hasn't seen
    traffic in a while (if it's still there)



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  • From tassiebob@21:3/169 to All on Sat Oct 5 13:49:36 2024
    On 4/10/24 18:03, poindexter FORTRAN wrote:
    acn wrote to kirkspragg <=-

    ac> I don't know how much of real 'scripting' is possible with it, but
    ac> AFAIR Norton Utilities for Windows and in PC Tools for Windows both
    ac> featured a macro language.
    ac> Maybe have a look there?

    There was a whole community based around 4DOS - it has some very
    interesting batch extensions and extensions overall for DOS.

    Indeed - back in the 90's my BBS was driven by 4DOS batch files. Was
    much nicer to work with than regular old DOS batch files :-)

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  • From acn@21:3/127.1 to poindexter FORTRAN on Mon Oct 7 13:18:00 2024
    Am 04.10.24 schrieb poindexter FORTRAN@21:4/122 in FSX_RETRO:

    Hallo poindexter,

    I don't know how much of real 'scripting' is possible with it, but
    AFAIR Norton Utilities for Windows and in PC Tools for Windows both
    featured a macro language.
    Maybe have a look there?

    There was a whole community based around 4DOS - it has some very interesting batch extensions and extensions overall for DOS.

    I think there's still a 4DOS echo on Fidonet, although it hasn't seen traffic in a while (if it's still there)

    Yes, that's true. But 4DOS does not feature scripting of Windows 3.x applications - which was the OPs question. :)
    (I've also used 4DOS back in the day and loved it, but I did not use
    all features or did excessive scripting)

    Regards,
    Anna

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  • From Bf2K+@21:3/171 to poindexter FORTRAN on Tue Oct 8 20:28:02 2024
    I ran 4DOS here for many years...

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  • From Roon@21:4/148 to Bf2K+ on Wed Oct 9 20:51:21 2024
    Hello Bf2K+,

    08 Oct 24 20:28, you wrote to poindexter FORTRAN:

    I ran 4DOS here for many years...

    $ telnet bbs

    OS/2 Version 2.4 (bbs)
    login:danielp
    password:................

    4OS2 3.09 OS/2 Version is 4.50
    Copyright (c) 1988-2002 JP Software, Inc -- http://jpsoft.com/
    Netlabs Edition http://4os2.netlabs.org/ -- not supported by JP Software, Inc.


    [<bbs>-c:\]


    :)

    Regards,
    --
    dp

    telnet://bbs.roonsbbs.hu:1212 <<=-

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  • From kirkspragg@21:2/150 to acn on Thu Oct 10 21:45:28 2024
    I don't know how much of real 'scripting' is possible with it, but
    AFAIR Norton Utilities for Windows and in PC Tools for Windows both featured a macro language.
    Maybe have a look there?

    I'll take a look, I managed to get something workable going with winbatch 5. Aside from some odd Y2k issues with the date & timing functions it did work well enough - having to raise a dialog with a time delay to force my script to wait was a bit annoying but it did work.

    ... ERROR #0032: KEYBOARD NOT RESPONDING! Use Hammer? (Y/N)

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