[mdempsey72]

I have a project which is probably quite large scale but I'm not entirely sure it's possible or what programming language it would be in, whether it would be a web app or an .exe.

Here's what I need, withut going into details as to what exactly the project is. I need an applicaton which can use a computer mouse and keboard essentially for me, and click certain buttos and type certain numbers into certain input boxes on a page, depending on messages which appear on that page, and a certain formula I would write.

I think people would refer to it as a bot as it is essentially doing something a human person would (I do) do, but it means that it can be done 24 hours a day by a computer as opposed to for a little while by me before getting bored.

I'd like to have some thoughts on this, what language it might be in. If you want to talk on AIM - 'mattdempseycom' or msn 'matt@mattdempsey.com'. Don't email me. I suppose replies to this would be almost as good to just get some feelings on whether it can be done and how. Thanks for your time.

Matt

[duesi]

There are automated GUI-Test Tools which do more or less what I think you want to do. The tricky bit, of course, is the "depending on messages which appear on that page"

Maybe this is interesting:
http://www.omsphere.com/html/products.html
http://www.soft.com/Products/index.html

Thena again, if you are talking about webpages, you might consider
perl and WWW::Mechanize.

Cheers!