Macro Scheduler and Windows Automation

Technical / Scripting :: RE: IEAuto.dll Attach to running instance

Author: adroege
Posted: Mon Sep 06, 2010 5:21 pm (GMT 0)
Topic Replies: 3

Quote:

And there fore they want to use an instance of IE that is already logged in.

Seems simple to me....... Create the IE instance as visible with IEAuto, and then have some human login in. Now the macro can start working. Seems to me you were thinking that to automate the instance it had to be invisible - which is not the case.

Actually not sure why IEAuto can't automate the login process also. But, if not, the macro can start once the instance is "logged in" anyway.

Technical / Scripting :: RE: IEAuto.dll Attach to running instance

Author: mtettmar
Posted: Mon Sep 06, 2010 1:31 pm (GMT 0)
Topic Replies: 3

No, fraid not. The IE instance must be created by IE_Create for any other function to use it. You cannot attach to an already existing instance via IEAuto.
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Technical / Scripting :: RE: IEAuto.dll Attach to running instance

Author: SteenJakobsen
Posted: Mon Sep 06, 2010 7:45 am (GMT 0)
Topic Replies: 3

I Know I have asked the same question before. It is just that is has become importat now.

The reson is that a large corporate costumer has a large coporate web app that requeres login. And there fore they want to use an instance of IE that is already logged in.

Any hint?

p.s. I know I can do it in VB .. I hvae read the posts about it. But then I can not use the great IEAuto.dll that comes with WebRecorder.

Best regards Sten
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Technical / Scripting :: IEAuto.dll Attach to running instance

Author: SteenJakobsen
Subject: IEAuto.dll Attach to running instance
Posted: Mon Sep 06, 2010 7:37 am (GMT 0)
Topic Replies: 3

Hi all,

Is there a way to attach to a running instance of IE and then use that instance with the functions in IEAuto.dll

Any feedback is very appreciated.

Regards Steen
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Technical / Scripting :: RE: Returnvalues, or how to get the value of a var in srt change

Author: Dick99999
Subject: Re: VBScript causes Error 13 (Type mismatch)
Posted: Sun Sep 05, 2010 5:38 pm (GMT 0)
Topic Replies: 8

djDeeJay_dot_com wrote:

..............

mtettmar wrote:

Macro Scheduler's subroutines are just subroutines. Not functions. Functions return a result. Subroutines don't. They also can't be called inline in a calculation. They are just blocks of code you can call for convenience. Hence why you can't really do this recursively in MacroScript. You can of course use a global variable for the result. .............

Agree if returning results through the name of the function is meant here. A subroutine can also return values through it's parameters. MS is no exception here I think.

Returning an array can be done by putting the name of the array 'without an index' in the gosub i.e
Call: gosub>sampleSubr,myarray
In the subr use:
%sampleSubr_VAR_1%_%index%=returnValue
see http://www.mjtnet.com/usergroup/viewtopic.php?t=6360
Also note that the length of the array is the largest length ever returned. So it is better to return the actual length in a second parameter separately, see next example.

And the following can be used to return a single value variable
gosub>subr,{"VarName"}
and in the subr use:
%sampleSubr_VAR_1%=returnValue
If the {} notation is not used for calling, then only the first time will result in intended return values.

I use both returns a lot, and really don't know if this way to return values is an unintended usage of the substitution power of MS.

Technical / Scripting :: RE: Problem with Variable breakpoints

Author: sarver311
Posted: Sun Sep 05, 2010 6:04 am (GMT 0)
Topic Replies: 6

Thanks JRL! Yeah I hadn't messed with them much but had an entirely different problem where a variable breakpoint would come in handy then I could get it to work and thought I was crazy. Thanks for confirming it's not just much.

Technical / Scripting :: RE: Problem with Variable breakpoints

Author: JRL
Posted: Sun Sep 05, 2010 5:02 am (GMT 0)
Topic Replies: 6

I see it now. Thank you for the explanation. It appears that "variable breakpoints" were introduced with version 12. Somehow I missed the boat and didn't know about them.

I now agree that variable breakpoints do not seem to work once a dialog is displayed. I even made the dialog non-modal then added a GoSub line immediately following the show> line and the script failed to pause when StopScript=10 . Place the Gosub immediately ahead of Show> and the script pauses as it should.
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Technical / Scripting :: RE: Problem with Variable breakpoints

Author: sarver311
Posted: Sat Sep 04, 2010 4:33 pm (GMT 0)
Topic Replies: 6

Ok, you know how in the debugger for macro scheduler there is an option called variable breakpoints? In there you set can set a value pair that tells macro scheduler to pause the script when that value has been reached. In this case when StopScript=True.

I was having an issue in another script where I couldn't get the variable breakpoint to pause the script. That is when I discovered the issue with the dialog. My other script is way to big and calls databases etc. so I just made the two sample scripts to illustrate that it works without a dialog and stops to work when there is a dialog in the script.

So when you run these scripts, go to your debugger and go into the variable breakpoint option and put stopscript=True. For the first script I posted it will pause the debugger once the value hits true, for the second one it will not.

Does that make more sense? Sorry for the confusion and thanks for the help!

Technical / Scripting :: RE: Problem with Variable breakpoints

Author: JRL
Posted: Sat Sep 04, 2010 2:00 pm (GMT 0)
Topic Replies: 6

Perhaps I'm not understanding the purpose of the variable "StopScript". I assumed you were using it somewhere else in your script. If I step through your script in the editor, I see that "StopScript" gets set tp True. As far as I know you would then need to perform some action based on that value of "StopScript".


Dialog>Dialog1

object Dialog1: TForm

  Left = 255

  Top = 116

  HelpContext = 5000

  BorderIcons = [biSystemMenu]

  Caption = 'CustomDialog'

  ClientHeight = 212

  ClientWidth = 431

  Color = clBtnFace

  Font.Charset = DEFAULT_CHARSET

  Font.Color = clWindowText

  Font.Height = -11

  Font.Name = 'MS Sans Serif'

  Font.Style = []

  OldCreateOrder = True

  ShowHint = True

  OnTaskBar = False

  PixelsPerInch = 96

  TextHeight = 13

  object StartLoop: tMSButton

    Left = 148

    Top = 72

    Width = 75

    Height = 25

    Caption = 'StartLoop'

    DoubleBuffered = True

    ParentDoubleBuffered = False

    TabOrder = 8

    DoBrowse = False

    BrowseStyle = fbOpen

  end

end

EndDialog>Dialog1



AddDialogHandler>Dialog1,StartLoop,OnClick,startloop

show>dialog1,r



srt>startloop

  let>k=0

  messagemodal>the loop is about to start, lets see if the variable breakpoint works

  label>actionloop

  

  //JRL added the following 4 lines

    If>StopScript=True

      MDL>StopScript=%StopScript%

      Exit>0

    EndIf

  /////////////////////////////////////

    

    wait>.10

    let>k=%k%+1

    if>k=10

    

      let>StopScript=True

    endif

  goto>actionloop

END>startloop

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Technical / Scripting :: RE: Problem with Variable breakpoints

Author: sarver311
Posted: Sat Sep 04, 2010 5:33 am (GMT 0)
Topic Replies: 6

Oops, I made a last minute change to the script before making this post so I can see how you would that was the only reason it wasn't working. Sorry for the confusion! If you fix my typo and try that script the problem still exists. I know for sure it is working too because I add a message right when the srt>startloop sub runs so i know it has started.

I made sure my variable breakpoint is spelled right and even tried everything uppercase, still nogo.

Try this and let me know if you observe the same problem.


Dialog>Dialog1

object Dialog1: TForm

  Left = 255

  Top = 116

  HelpContext = 5000

  BorderIcons = [biSystemMenu]

  Caption = 'CustomDialog'

  ClientHeight = 212

  ClientWidth = 431

  Color = clBtnFace

  Font.Charset = DEFAULT_CHARSET

  Font.Color = clWindowText

  Font.Height = -11

  Font.Name = 'MS Sans Serif'

  Font.Style = []

  OldCreateOrder = True

  ShowHint = True

  OnTaskBar = False

  PixelsPerInch = 96

  TextHeight = 13

  object StartLoop: tMSButton

    Left = 148

    Top = 72

    Width = 75

    Height = 25

    Caption = 'StartLoop'

    DoubleBuffered = True

    ParentDoubleBuffered = False

    TabOrder = 8

    DoBrowse = False

    BrowseStyle = fbOpen

  end

end

EndDialog>Dialog1



AddDialogHandler>Dialog1,StartLoop,OnClick,startloop

show>dialog1,r



srt>startloop

  let>k=0

  messagemodal>the loop is about to start, lets see if the variable breakpoint works

  label>actionloop

    wait>.10

    let>k=%k%+1

    if>k=10

    

      let>StopScript=True

    endif

  goto>actionloop

END>startloop

Technical / Scripting :: RE: Problem with Variable breakpoints

Author: JRL
Posted: Sat Sep 04, 2010 4:55 am (GMT 0)
Topic Replies: 6

AddDialogHandler>Dialog1,StartLoop,OnClick,startloop

should be

AddDialogHandler>Dialog1,msButton1,OnClick,startloop
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Technical / Scripting :: Problem with Variable breakpoints

Author: sarver311
Subject: Problem with Variable breakpoints
Posted: Fri Sep 03, 2010 8:48 pm (GMT 0)
Topic Replies: 6

I don' t know if it's broken or this is working as intended but I noticed an issue with Variable Breakpoints not working under certain scenarios.

Here are two code samples that illustrate when it works fine and when it doesn't.

Working Scenario:
I have a variable break set to StopScript=True The script basically loops through for a few seconds and once k is 10 it sets the variable to true and the variable breakpoint stops right at that moment.


let>k=0

label>actionloop

  wait>.01

  let>k=%k%+1

  if>k=10

    let>StopScript=True

  endif

goto>actionloop

That works just fine. However as soon as I introduce a dialog into the mix the variable breakpoint ceases to function. This basically the same as the above script, the loop just begins as soon as you click the button but the script never stops when Stopscript=True. Also I tried this with modal and nonmodal versions of a dialog with same issue.


Dialog>Dialog1

object Dialog1: TForm

  Left = 255

  Top = 116

  HelpContext = 5000

  BorderIcons = [biSystemMenu]

  Caption = 'CustomDialog'

  ClientHeight = 212

  ClientWidth = 431

  Color = clBtnFace

  Font.Charset = DEFAULT_CHARSET

  Font.Color = clWindowText

  Font.Height = -11

  Font.Name = 'MS Sans Serif'

  Font.Style = []

  OldCreateOrder = True

  ShowHint = True

  OnTaskBar = False

  PixelsPerInch = 96

  TextHeight = 13

  object MSButton1: tMSButton

    Left = 148

    Top = 72

    Width = 75

    Height = 25

    Caption = 'StartLoop'

    DoubleBuffered = True

    ParentDoubleBuffered = False

    TabOrder = 8

    DoBrowse = False

    BrowseStyle = fbOpen

  end

end

EndDialog>Dialog1



AddDialogHandler>Dialog1,StartLoop,OnClick,startloop

show>dialog1,r



srt>startloop

  let>k=0

  label>actionloop

    wait>.10

    let>k=%k%+1

    if>k=10

      let>StopScript=True

    endif

  goto>actionloop

END>startloop

Am I missing something?

Thanks!

Technical / Scripting :: RE: How to run a macro when someone connects a USB stick to PC ?

Author: idiot
Posted: Fri Sep 03, 2010 2:37 am (GMT 0)
Topic Replies: 2

or you could have it detect when the bubble pops up using getpixel or image recognition that the new drive is plugged in his way is already coded thopugh
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Beginners :: RE: picture tracking

Author: idiot
Posted: Fri Sep 03, 2010 2:31 am (GMT 0)
Topic Replies: 2

actually you can use image recogniton to detect image no matter where it is its just a simple setting
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Technical / Scripting :: RE: Controling objects in a Map application

Author: Auto_Rudolf
Posted: Fri Sep 03, 2010 2:13 am (GMT 0)
Topic Replies: 7

Hi JRL.

Your script is amazing.
The Vehicle Plate No. is not visually identifiable.

I used your script but the vehicle objects is not identifiable.

At least I know it is not feasible or might be too tedious to implement at this moment.

Thanks JRL and adroege for the help!