Automation and scheduling of FrontPage publishing using Python

andrew.arobert at gmail.com andrew.arobert at gmail.com
Sun Sep 2 16:22:55 EDT 2007


On Sep 1, 10:48 pm, Jerry <jwe... at gmail.com> wrote:
> andrew,
>
> I would try looking into Windows automation with Python.http://www.google.com/search?q=windows+automation+pythonshould get
> you started.  The winGuiAuto package may help you out as it is like
> have a human click and move throughout the interface.  The only
> downside is that there is no recorder to help you build the script, so
> I would try to do as much in VBA as you can (does FrontPage even
> support VBA?) and then just write your python script to get through
> the program enough to execute the macro.

Yes.. Front page can be run by VB macro but I really did not want to
go down that road if it could be avoided.

This looks very promising.

I've installed the module and run a couple of the basic examples..

Very cool.




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