MessagePad Overview

MessagePad is an application that is used to display a scrolling list of messages. Messages can be sent to MessagePad from the local computer, or more usefully, from a remote computer. These messages are sent from the command line using our SendMsg utility (free with MessagePad), or directly from LogWatcher and AutoPilot. Messages can contain color information that determines how they will be displayed. It is a useful alternative to having message boxes constantly interrupting your work.

MessagePad also allows you to configure alerts, which are triggered when MessagePad detects certain text strings in the incoming message. These alerts can be as simple as displaying a message or beeping, or they can be lengthy tasks that use any of the available actions. These actions are the same as those in AutoPilot and LogWatcher, which means that you can copy and paste your tasks from one to the other.

MessagePad is part of the Acrasoft suite of automation products, and supports data transfer between our applications via drag-and-drop, and cut-and-paste. Any tasks you build in LogWatcher or AutoPilot are compatible with MessagePad's tasks.

Some of the actions we support are:

Launch other programs
Send E-mail
File operations ( copy, delete )
System operations ( shutdown reboot, etc )
Run a GroundControl macro ( another Acrasoft product )
Write text to file ( handy for sniffer-style applications, like certain paging apps ).
Send Keys
Download Internet URL
NT Service control
More...

New in version 1.10:

Execute an SQL script or command
Configuration for text editor, log viewer and SQL script editor
Bug fixes...

System Requirements

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