how do you write/read stuff outside the console with cpp/windows?

[Lii]

dropshipping is pretty repetitive

usually it's waiting for an email, get the information, insert the information for the shippement and ship

 

so I was looking for something that can manage to read stuff from a browser (like firefox) or any other application, and be able to do some user input (like move the cursor, click, insert some text)

 

but I have no idea how to do it nor where to look for

 

ps: I'm sorry but at the time my phone was missbehaving

[WereCatf]

9 minutes ago, Lii said:

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[Eigenvektor]

It's really not clear what you're asking. Read what exactly, files, text, user input…?

[trag1c]

Super vague answer for a super vague question.

https://www.cplusplus.com/reference/fstream/

 

[Guest]

Please use a lot more words.

There is not enough context here.

[Sauron]

https://fs.blog/how-to-read-a-book/

[minibois]

2 hours ago, Lii said:

how do you write/read stuff outside the console with cpp/windows?

I think you're looking for Console::WriteLine() and std::getline()

[badreg]

On 1/20/2021 at 9:00 AM, Lii said:

so I was looking for something that can manage to read stuff from a browser (like firefox) or any other application, and be able to do some user input (like move the cursor, click, insert some text)

A combination of Javascript (to interact with the browser) and AHK (for user input) is probably going to be the easiest solution.

 

If you want to do something like this with C++, you will need to have a fairly extensive knowledge of WinAPI.

[Lii]

On 1/20/2021 at 6:14 PM, trag1c said:

Super vague answer for a super vague question.

https://www.cplusplus.com/reference/fstream/

 

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[Eigenvektor]

On 1/20/2021 at 6:00 PM, Lii said:

so I was looking for something that can manage to read stuff from a browser (like firefox) or any other application, and be able to do some user input (like move the cursor, click, insert some text)

Reading data from other processes or parsing text from the screen isn't really the best way to go about this, as it's quite error prone e.g. when the website layout changes. Some goes for moving the cursor and entering text. Doable, but prone to errors if fields more around, names change etc.

 

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usually it's waiting for an email, get the information, insert the information for the shippement and ship

Is this information you receive through email standardized in some way or are we talking about text written by a human being? Parsing information from an email, converting it as needed and sending it somewhere else should be doable, provided we are talking about standardized input and output.

 

E.g. you could write an application that communicates with the email server directly. When a new mail arrives its contents are parsed, the information is reformatted as needed and then sent to wherever it needs to go. Ideally whoever receives the data in the end has some API for this, since parsing/scraping a website is (once again) quite error prone.

 

So it really depends on what kind of information you receive via email, in which way it needs to be processed and how you need to forward the information. You could probably cobble something together with some UI automation tools, but if this is something a business depends on I'd rather have a more stable/standardized process.