AutoHotkey to do Update (and Authenticate)
Author: hlh
Creation Date: 5/14/2011 11:48 AM
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hlh

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To figure out which EOD provider when updates its data, i.e. how soon after the a) the European and b) the US markets close I was trying to set "Update on Demand" and have scripts looping over the symbols of different DataSets writing to disk whenever data gets updates. Those script pause for 10 minutes and chech again. Well this was a good idea, or mayb it was not, but it does not do anything. Maybe not do the update request when initiated from the script after pause mode, maybe anything else.

So I now ant to do a webupdate every 10 minutes form the DataManager, but I have not found any solution like I did in WL4. There I could initiate the DataUpdate, even for certain Watchlists individually, from an external program. If this would be possible here too, I would of course prefer such a solution. If not, I think of using AutoHotkey, to have it click on my DataUpdate button every 10 minutes (and I will check the *.WL files from an external program to see whetehr or not data has been updated yet).

I struggle with AutoHotkey as I do not know how to read and address the DataManager window (is not a "regular" window for AHK, how to select and activate the right tab (as after an update it switches to the next tab), etc.

As it was mentioned here in the forum that one can use tools like AHK to automatically overcome the monthly Authenticate window issue, I wonder if someone has this already done (but maybe this is a "different" window for AHK).

Any pointers (or AHK code samples for WL) would be very much appreciated.

Thank you!
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