Save time, eliminate errors!

The Windows desktop automation solution--take nearly anything your computer can do, and assign it to a simple menu selection, command or hotkey. The power of a complete programming language, but easy enough for the quick-and-dirty stuff. With WinBatch+Compiler, compile your applications into .EXE files and distribute them to anyone you want, royalty-free -- great for network system administrators.

Are you a slave to your machine?

You're no fool. You know your AUTOEXEC.BAT file, and maybe twiddled your CONFIG.SYS once in awhile. But now you use Windows, and you miss the power of DOS batch files (or maybe not).

We have good news for you: WinBatch gives you all the power of the DOS batch language in Windows, and more.

WinBatch also lets you manipulate applications directly. For example, it's simple to create a menu command that automatically changes your printer settings, faxes a document, and changes the settings back to normal. Or a hotkey that automatically inserts the current date and time into a file. Or a batch file that cuts and pastes data from one application into another -- and reformats the data, too.

That's power you couldn't even get with DOS batch files.

Besides simple file and program manipulation, WinBatch also gives you the power to stop in the middle of a sequence of actions and ask the user a question or display a status message. WinBatch can also select a file or directory to operate on, using standard Windows dialog boxes, complete with check boxes, radio buttons and file list selectors. WinBatch files can also make decisions, based on things like current system values or the user's responses.

You can manipulate windows (change their size or location), control multimedia hardware (like sound cards and CD-ROM drives), interface to networks, and perform arithmetic and string manipulation. You can even read and change system values like the time or the current wallpaper, or see if a mouse button or shift key is pressed.

In short, there are over 500 functions that allow you to control almost every aspect of your computer. It's powerful enough to create simple, useful applications -- like a utility that prints files overnight -- but also simple enough to use for quick-and-dirty, everyday solutions -- like typing "Sincerely, Mary Smith" whenever you hit a hotkey. Once you use WinBatch you'll wonder how you ever got along without it.

Features

• Traditional batch-language file management capabilities such as copying files, changing the directory or launching applications
• Structured programming, including GOSUB, SELECT CASE, FOR...NEXT, WHILE...ENDWHILE, IF...ELSE...ENDIF
• Complete support for user interaction, including standard Windows dialog boxes, check boxes, radio buttons and file list selectors
• Time and date functions for scheduling operations
• Send keystrokes and menu commands directly to applications
• Network support: extenders included for Novell 3.x, Novell 4.x, Windows for Workgroups, and a generic network module for other networks
• Link to Windows DLLs, third party MAPI and TAPI DLLs, or your own C or C++ DLLs Link to Windows DLLs, third party MAPI and TAPI DLLs, or your own C or C++ DLLs
• Extensive string manipulation, integer and floating point arithmetic, including trig and log functions
• System control -- read and change system values like the current wallpaper, keyboard repeat rate, etc.
• Manipulate windows (change their size or location)
• Control multimedia hardware (sound cards, CD-ROM drives, etc.)
• Manipulate the DOS environment (e.g., PATH)
• Launch a script via clicking an icon in the Program Manager
• Complete binary access to any file
• Full documentation, including a 400-page reference manual for the Windows Interface Language and an on-line reference guide in Windows help file format

WinBatch works with Windows 95, 98, ME, NT and 2000