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Automation of Report writer IPC Netlist.

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I have been trying to figure out have to automate an output file from PCB. I have got the the point of the IPC output but want to change the name and browse for the correct location.  I was trying to use o sendkey commands.

 

I doubt this is the best way to do this but I am new at this and haven't worked with vbscripting that much. Here is the code I am usng. And for some reason the script I am calling this from doen't like the wscript.sleep command so i left that commented out. I have the rest working by looking at scripts from the AATK stuff but unsure how to get the IPC D 356 Generation popmenu (This menu can not be minimized, don't know if that means anything.) to do what I want. As you can see i don't know much about scripting but am trying to learn.

 

 

    Option Explicit
     
Dim oWShell

 

        Set oWShell = createobject("WScript.shell")  


       oWShell.AppActivate "vbreport.exe"
    

       ' WScript.Sleep(100)
 

      oWShell.SendKeys "%T"

      ' WScript.Sleep(100)


      oWShell.SendKeys "L"

      ' WScript.Sleep(100)


      oWShell.SendKeys "I"

      ' WScript.Sleep(100)


      oWShell.SendKeys "%R"
      ' WScript.Sleep(100)
' This part I am not sure how to do as  tab doesn't seem to tab it up to the next location and

' then am not sure If I just over write the ipc356.ipc text and browse for the specified location.

'For some reason it skips over this part and just closes the vbreport.exe file.

      oWShell.AppActivate "ipc356.exe"
      ' WScript.Sleep(100)

 

      oWShell.SendKeys "{TAB}"
      ' WScript.Sleep(100)

 

      oWShell.SendKeys "%O"
      ' WScript.Sleep(100)

 

      oWShell.AppActivate "vbreport.exe"
      ' WScript.Sleep(100)

 

      oWShell.SendKeys "%F"
      ' WScript.Sleep(100)

 

      oWShell.SendKeys "x"

 

 

Thanks

Wes

 

 
 


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