RoboTask forum

I want to be able to type yyy into any text that I'm writing and have robotask put today's date as yyyy-mm-dd

https://robotask.com/forum/viewtopic.ph ... FACE#p6185
this link is very close to my experience.

The problem is this
when I use this macro outside of being called from Visual Basic, that macro works just fine.
When I call this macro from a batch file inside of Visual Basic a black screen comes up flashes and ends, and then the task is never executed

How do I run/open a robotask tsk using Visual Basic?
I tried shelling a batch file and it runs but never fully does what it was supposed to do