Newbie question; start IE minimized

joeC · Post by **joeC** » Sat Feb 11, 2006 11:41 pm

First this product is GREAT. A buddy of mine spent some 3 months getting robust IE scripts to run with a competitor that cost him $500+. I spent 16 hours with the beta version of msched/web recorder and built a better product!

Now for the question:

I use a script to go to a specific website and perform a specific action. Everything works great but I don't need the IE browser window to open. I used the WindowAction>2,MICROSOFT* to minimize after launch but I was wondering if there is an argument to the create>IE command that would start the browser window minimized.

Thanks

Joec

Bob Hansen · Post by **Bob Hansen** » Sun Feb 12, 2006 1:37 am

Here are two approaches:

1.Let>RP_WINDOWMODE=2 or 0
Run Program>MSIE......

OR

2. How about making an icon to open MSIE, and set properties of icon to run minimized. Now have your script call the icon.

Post by **Marcus Tettmar** » Sun Feb 12, 2006 8:32 am

Bob: Good answers, but Joec is using WebRecorder and therefore the IEAuto library which opens IE via OLE. He is not starting it via Run Program or a shortcut - it gets created by IEAuto.DLL.

Joec: Your WindowAction command is probably the best way. We do intend to add a function to IEAuto.DLL to HIDE the IE window altogether. IE offers a property to make it visible or not, so we can easily expose that method and hide it. But as for minimizing it - stick to WindowAction.

BTW - thanks for your praise - can we quote you on our website? If so can you provide your full name that we should attribute it to?

Bob Hansen · Post by **Bob Hansen** » Sun Feb 12, 2006 4:54 pm

Oops! I missed the reference to WebRecorder.

Sorry about that Joec.

joeC · Post by **joeC** » Mon Feb 13, 2006 10:18 pm

Hiding the IE window using a new IEAuto.dll would be a GREAT thing for my purposes. Of course I will be kicking myself for NOT ordering the extended upgrade protection....

However, you can use my comments on your website and attribute them to Joe Conner. For the record the "competitor" product was the IMACROS package by IOPUS (or something like that) (hope that is ok to post). Of course using my postive comments and name on your website automatically gets me an upgraded IEAuto.dll with HIDE feature right...

Thanks

Post by **Marcus Tettmar** » Mon Feb 13, 2006 11:53 pm

Hi,

Thanks for the endorsement.

Re upgrade protection this is for major versions of Macro Scheduler (next will be 9.0) and does not relate to WebRecorder/IEAuto.DLL. For the foreseeable future all updates to WebRecorder will be free.

Newbie question; start IE minimized

Newbie question; start IE minimized

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