How to Convert Web Recorder Script to an .exe ?

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MAC-Man
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How to Convert Web Recorder Script to an .exe ?

Post by MAC-Man » Mon Jan 24, 2011 6:15 pm

Please tell me how to convert a Web Recording into an .exe.

I have:
1. Used Web Recorder to record a script.
2. Imported the script into MacroScheduler.
3. Successfully Tested/Run the script from MacroScheduler.
4. Created an .exe from the script using MacroScheduler.
The .exe does not run correctly.

The .exe does run an initial non-web related command.
But then the .exe seems to hang or exit. Nothing else happens . . . and it seems to have terminated and I see no changes in the screen or any notification messages.
The .exe does Not open IE-Explorer (which is the next script command).

Help. What should I be doing?
Thanks.

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Post by Marcus Tettmar » Mon Jan 24, 2011 8:09 pm

The .exe needs the WebRecorder runtime files. In your Macro Scheduler program folder you will see an Imports folder. Copy this folder to the same location as your .exe. Inside the Imports should be IEAuto.DLL and IEAuto.INI.
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MAC-Man
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Fixed

Post by MAC-Man » Mon Jan 24, 2011 8:57 pm

Thank you . . .
I had a little confusion about whether to copy the Imports folder (and make it a subdirectory where the .exe is) . . . or to copy the contents of the Imports folder into the same directory as the .exe.
I was doing the latter, now I am making Imports and sub-folder and it is working fine.

Thanks

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