Automating a task

Question

I'd like to automate a very simple task. All I'm doing is exporting projecting files from an application called "solmetric pv analyzer." But I need to do it about 100 times.

Not sure if this information will help, but in order to export the projects, I need to load them into the program and then File->export traces for entire system.

I'd use something like AutoHotKey, but the sizes of the files vary greatly, so the export time does as well and I don't want it to wait such a long time do to each file.

On top of that, I'm stuck on windows XP on a computer with limited processing power.

Windows XP SP2 1 GB RAM

Answer 1

Looking at the flow, if I had to do it - I would use Sikuli. It is quite user friendly and

automates anything you see on the screen. It uses image recognition to identify and control GUI components. It is useful when there is no easy access to a GUI's internal or source code.

And does fit well under your hardware requirements

Windows XP SP2 1 GB RAM

since it only needs about 200MB memory to start. Once you create your script, I'm sure that the execution will take even less than that.

Aiming at full answer - you can even schedule the execution of the scripts via PowerShell/batch files. Here are the CLI arguments that you can use:

usage:
Sikuli-IDE [--args <arguments>] [-h] [-r <sikuli-file>] [-s] [-t <sikuli-file>]
 --args <arguments>             specify the arguments passed to Jython's sys.argv
 -h,--help                      print this help message
 -r,--run <sikuli-file>         run .sikuli or .skl file
 -s,--stderr                    print runtime errors to stderr instead of popping up a message box
 -t,--test <sikuli-file>   run .sikuli as a unit test case with junit's text UI runner