[AccessD] Touch Portal with Access

John Colby jwcolby at gmail.com
Sat Jan 23 11:24:56 CST 2021


I am working on my YouTube channel, using Touch Portal to automate OBS
studio.  I have it working able to switch to scenes where I have Access
database, Access VBA editor and Powerpoint are already open.

Having done that it feels like I should be able to literally automate
Access itself as I work on it.

My intent is to do video lectures on Access programming, and I really want
to be able to switch between the open windows, which do not have the focus
with keys on Touch Portal.  IOW yes, Touch Portal can cause OBS studio to
switch what you see if you are watching my video, but that doesn't switch
what I see as the lecturer.  So I am (currently) left with manually using
my mouse to click the Access code editor in the toolbar to switch to the
editor, then click on the database windows if I want to see that, then
click on Power Point if I want to see that, all while also hitting Touch
Portal keys to switch what you see.  Very confusing and error prone.

I discovered that Powershell can do some pretty powerful automation, and
Touch Portal can run power shell macros so... maybe that is my path to what
I am trying to do.

Touch Portal is pretty powerful but ATM the only thing I can figure out is
how to open an app, not switch between open apps.



-- 
John W. Colby
Colby Consulting


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