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Hello,

I am trying to build a stack that would mimic a keyboard with other actives apps. Basically, if the cursor were placed on a field on a web page of a browser for example, I could use my stack to fire off a macro that would fill the field with text. Obviously, the browser would be the active ...

Hi Michel,

I don't know what the preferred "Revolution" way is, I only know what the preferred "Glen" way is:) , but maybe it could be of some help.

If I understand you correctly, you can do this a couple of ways.

You could select your fields in the "select" part of your sql query then dump the ...

The guys at Sons Of Thunder Software did a primer on this topic.

Its definitely worth taking a look at:

http://www.sonsothunder.com/devres/revo ... ply002.htm

I found it very useful.

Glen

Hi Mluka,

Another approach is to keep your "template" in a field then dump it to a variable or other field, do any modifications, and submit that data.

Put place holders in your template (i.e. some unique string) that you could use "replace" on to build your query.

Crude and simple, but its works ...