Need help with making an .exe

I want to make something very simple, yet I have no idea how to do it.

At work we have these "Smart Boxes" that print forms automatically like check-in forms for our guests. I just got a work around for a problem we had from the company that makes the boxes. Its a manual code/fix for printing our internet access code onto the forms.

While not hard for me as a computer savvy person to do, I doubt anybody on my general staff can do it and I need them to be able to update the code once a week when I am not there.

The process is editing a .PRN file via notepad. Easy enough, then you have to use the command prompt to copy the PRN file to the memory of the smart box.

This is where I am worried. So I just want to make a script/program that can automatically open the command prompt, type the required things in, and then exit all in just a simple double click.

Anybody know how to do something like this and can help me?

 

you could try powershell script or a macro program

http://elegantcode.com/2008/12/08/automate-daily-tasks-with-powershell/

 

Open notepad. Type in all of the stuff you would normally do at the command prompt. Save the file to something like: "TheSmartBoxSetup.txt." Then change the name of the file to "TheSmartBox.BAT". Now create a short cut to that BAT file. Voilà, you have an icon your users can click on which will execute the commands you want. Any BAT file (or shortcut to a BAT file), when double clicked, is automatically executed inside a Command Prompt. There is no need to manually open a command prompt window first.

Gary

 

Genius! I'll try it out right away.

 

Update, it works great with the .BAT idea.

I made two files one to open the .PRN file in notepad, and a 2nd one to write the new code to the printer box memory.

Thanks so much ScuderiaConchiglia +Rep

 

Glad I could help!

Gary

 

You should be able to script the whole thing and make into an exe with something like AutoIt