Conclusion
This chapter presented the Robot project, a powerful program that can run any other program by remote control. If you want to perform repetitious tasks, the Robot is for you. If you want to schedule tasks to be performed late at night, the Robot is for you, too.
You enter commands for the Robot in a text area or in a command file. Each command is of the form operation:data, where operation is one character—either t (text), m (move mouse), c (click), r (right-click), w (wait), s (screen shot), or b (beep).
You first start the program you want to control, then start the Robot. Enter the commands you want to use to control the target program and then click Go. The Robot will disappear, giving the focus back to the target program, and ...
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