WaitWindowOpen>WordPad* & setfocus>WordPad* ?

[Hades_UK]

Hi,
I seem to be getting inconsistant results with my macro script,somtimes it works flawlessly,sometimes it needs me to click a window for it,and sometimes it goes out of control,opening anything it can ...so my question is ,can my code be modified to make it work more consistent

What i need the script to do.....
Modify 30 different text files changing Caps as it goes (find@replace),then save and exit,then open the next...and so on
So currently i open the uk01-30_statistics in WordPad 30 times over (i have 30 WordPads up)

uk01_statistics.csv
uk02_statistics.csv
||
uk30_statistics.csv

SCRIPT>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>


Let>WW_TIMEOUT=10
let>go=1
label>01
WaitWindowOpen>WordPad*
If>WW_RESULT=FALSE,Error
WindowAction>2,WordPad*
setfocus>WordPad*
label>start
press ctrl
send>h
release ctrl
press alt

\//\\//\\//\\//\\//\\/

press enter
let>go=go+1
if>go=31,Done
goto>01
Label>Error
Message>Error Processing File
goto>Stop
Label>Done
Message>All files complete
label>Stop
Message>Done



Thanks


John

[Lumumba]

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release ctrl 
press alt 
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Where's the Release Alt command?

[Hades_UK]

\//\\//\\//\\//\\//\\/ = The break in the code..sorry about that,did`ent make it very clear,but i did not wanna paste the whole thing up,because 90% of it works fine (the find&replace bit)its just the gettting the correct window focus i was having problems with.


John

[Lumumba]

WordPad's window title for uk01_statistics.csv should be: uk01_statistics.csv - WordPad. Correct?

I've changed a little in your code (assume you've already done it the same way, but not provided it).

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Let>WW_TIMEOUT=10 
let>go=0

label>01 
let>leadingzero=0
Add>go,1
Length>%go%,golen
If>golen>1,WordPading
ConCat>leadingzero,%go%
Let>go=%leadingzero%

Label>WordPading
Run Program>wordpad uk%go%_statistics.csv
WaitWindowOpen>uk%go%_statistics - WordPad
If>WW_RESULT=FALSE,Error 
WindowAction>2,uk%go%_statistics - WordPad
setfocus>uk%go%_statistics - WordPad
label>start 
press ctrl 
send>h 
release ctrl 
press alt
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you've to delete this line: let>go=go+1
cause it's already done by that: Add>go,1

[Hades_UK]

That works an absolute treat now,heck it even opens wordpad for me.
I would luv to say i was gonna come up with a similiar solution,given the time...but alas i that would be a lie

Thanks

John

[Lumumba]

Hope you don't close 30 windows manualy?!

Therefore there should be a CloseWindow>uk%go%_statistics - WordPad in your code (right after were you've finished the editing of that file).

But that's still the case, right?

BTW: Set Let>RP_WINDOWMODE=2 right before you run wordpad so you can get rid of the following WindowAction>command as well.

[Hades_UK]

As for closing all 30 wordpads,i just use a CTRL S,ENTER,then ALT F and ALT X commands,(i still aint got past the point of seeing Macro Schuler as a thing for just pressing keyboard shortcuts yet

Anyways big thanks for your guidance on more graceful,effective and generally much better code writing,but working SMART goes against my philosophical approach to life,why work smart,when u can work hard..and working SMART has never been a strong point 4 me

[Lumumba]

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