AutoMate™ is designed to allow you to automate any task on your computer, creating a new task is the way to teach AutoMate™ how to perform the operation. Tasks are the foundation of AutoMate. A task is comprised of steps (actions); and these steps are carried out in the order you specify. These steps can be comprised of a number of powerful operations, such as recording and playing back mouse movements and clicks, launching specific applications, sending keystrokes to a particular application, sending/receiving files to FTP sites, communicating via DDE commands and requests with DDE enabled server applications, playing sounds, restarting or shutting down Windows, switching focus between separate windows or applications, etc.
Occasionally when building an automated task, it is important that the task run alone and uninterrupted. Since AutoMate™ is fully multi-threaded, it has the capability of running many tasks simultaneously. Tasks can be given special priorities that allow it to interact differently with other tasks.
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