Sending a Space

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fightcancer
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Sending a Space

Post by fightcancer » Fri Feb 22, 2013 9:33 pm

The way I read the Help file, these 2 lines of code do the same thing.

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Send> 
Ascii>32
(There's a space after "Send>" even though it may not appear.)

However, in my macro, the second line will not accomplish what the first line does. Am I reading it right?

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Post by Rain » Fri Feb 22, 2013 10:25 pm

Try

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Ascii>32,

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Post by fightcancer » Fri Feb 22, 2013 10:39 pm

Negative, Ghostrider.

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Post by JRL » Fri Feb 22, 2013 10:43 pm

However, in my macro, the second line will not accomplish what the first line does.
What do you want ASCII>32 to accomplish? Sending either to notepad gives me a space. Hard to diagnose without knowing what is failing.

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Post by fightcancer » Fri Feb 22, 2013 11:14 pm

The code is supposed to click the browse box. "Send> " works but "Ascii>32" doesn't.

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IEGetFromURL>tinypic.com,myIERef
IEGetTags>tinypic.com,INPUT,O,tags
Let>pos=0
Let>kTag=0
While>pos=0
  Add>kTag,1
  Let>tag=tags_%kTag%
  Pos>name=the_file,tag,1,pos
EndWhile
// Focus the Browse button and press the space bar.
IETagEvent>tinypic.com,INPUT,kTag,focus,
//IEWait>myIERef
SetFocus>TinyPic*
Send> 
//Ascii>32

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Post by CyberCitizen » Sat Feb 23, 2013 12:28 am

What about %SPACE%
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Post by Me_again » Sat Feb 23, 2013 12:54 am

I confirm the original post, ASCII>32 doesn't act on a window the same as Send>{invisible space} does. (For instance hitting space on this forum in IE will move down the page.)

Send>%SPACE% does work for me.

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Post by fightcancer » Sun Feb 24, 2013 4:12 pm

OK. Ty for "Send>%SPACE%". I wasn't aware that option existed. Much appreciated! :)

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Post by Marcus Tettmar » Mon Feb 25, 2013 9:53 am

You could also do:

Send>{" "}

Or just

Send>_

(Replacing _ with a space)
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