Is there "best" way to create a wrapper for press

[gdyvig]

I am trying to write a wrapper subroutine that will work in a compiled script. Something like this:

SRT>DoThis
TimeStamp>%DoThis_Var_1%,%DoThis_Var_2%,...etc
MouseMove>%DoThis_Var_1%,%DoThis_Var_2%
Wait>%DoThis_Var_3%
%DoThis_Var_4%
Press %DoThis_Var_5%
Send Character/Text>%DoThis_Var_6%
Release %DoThis_Var_5%
End>Dothis

gosub>Dothis,X,Y,1,LClick,LShift,Hello Marcus

All the commands in the subroutine work except these:
%DoThis_Var_4%
Press %DoThis_Var_5%
(However, these commands do appear in the logfile)


I would rather my subroutine did not need a series of if statements to check for all the possible mouse , press or release actions.

I will have the same problem with any command whose syntax is not of the form "command>arg1,arg2,arg3..."

Is there a recommended way to do this?
Is a enhancement required?

Thanks,
Gale

[JRL]

How about:

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SRT>DoThis
WriteLn>%temp_dir%dothis.scp,wres,TimeStamp>%DoThis_Var_1%,%DoThis_Var_2%,...etc
WriteLn>%temp_dir%dothis.scp,wres,MouseMove>%DoThis_Var_1%,%DoThis_Var_2%
WriteLn>%temp_dir%dothis.scp,wres,Wait>%DoThis_Var_3%
WriteLn>%temp_dir%dothis.scp,wres,%DoThis_Var_4%
WriteLn>%temp_dir%dothis.scp,wres,Press %DoThis_Var_5%
WriteLn>%temp_dir%dothis.scp,wres,Send Character/Text>%DoThis_Var_6%
WriteLn>%temp_dir%dothis.scp,wres,Release %DoThis_Var_5%
Macro>%temp_dir%dothis.scp
Deletefile>%temp_dir%dothis.scp
End>Dothis

gosub>Dothis,X,Y,1,LClick,LShift,Hello Marcus

[Marcus Tettmar]

All the commands in the subroutine work except these:
%DoThis_Var_4%
Press %DoThis_Var_5%

Version 11 will allow you to do that. Until then the Press... commands are commands in and of themselves. With v11 you can optionally make Press work as a function taking the key as a parameter.

[gdyvig]

Very good!

Are you planning to consolidate the mouse click commands into a function for a future release?

JRL's method of creating a macro on the fly works provided you are running the compiled macro on a machine with MS installed, similar to my "Evaluate Command" enhancement suggestion a few weeks ago.

[JRL]

JRL's method of creating a macro on the fly works provided you are running the compiled macro on a machine with MS installed,

From my happy button post.

For anyone who's interested there's a couple of interesting tidbits in here... a workaround for a non-modal Macro> function. (Will work as a script or compiled.)

Here is the above rewritten to run as both a script and/or a compiled script. (I did not test this so I could have left something out but it "looks" right.)

EDIT:Fixed the posted script (below) and tested it to be sure it works.

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//Determine if the process is a script or an exe
//Set mProcessor variable accordingly
StringReplace>%COMMAND_LINE%,",,COMMAND_LINE
VBSTART
VBEND
VBEval>Lcase("%COMMAND_LINE%"),COMMAND_LINE
Position>.exe,%COMMAND_LINE%,1,exe_loc
Add>exe_loc,4
Midstr>%COMMAND_LINE%,1,%exe_loc%,COMMAND_LINE
Separate>%COMMAND_LINE%,\,prossvar
Let>value=prossvar_%prossvar_count%
Separate>value,.,value
If>%value_1%=msched
  Let>mProcessor=%COMMAND_LINE%%SPACE%
Else
  Let>mProcessor=%COMMAND_LINE% /Script=
EndIf

//If the variable "Script" has a value, then this executable has been
//invoked by itself as a script processing agent.  Run the script then exit.
Ass>Script,RunScript
If>RunScript=TRUE
  Macro>Script
  Goto>EOF
EndIF

SRT>DoThis
WriteLn>%temp_dir%dothis.scp,wres,TimeStamp>%DoThis_Var_1%,%DoThis_Var_2%,...etc
WriteLn>%temp_dir%dothis.scp,wres,MouseMove>%DoThis_Var_1%,%DoThis_Var_2%
WriteLn>%temp_dir%dothis.scp,wres,Wait>%DoThis_Var_3%
WriteLn>%temp_dir%dothis.scp,wres,%DoThis_Var_4%
WriteLn>%temp_dir%dothis.scp,wres,Press %DoThis_Var_5%
WriteLn>%temp_dir%dothis.scp,wres,Send Character/Text>%DoThis_Var_6%
WriteLn>%temp_dir%dothis.scp,wres,Release %DoThis_Var_5%

//Run msched.exe %temp_dir%dothis.scp or thisexe.exe %temp_dir%dothis.scp
Run>%mProcessor%%temp_dir%dothis.scp

Deletefile>%temp_dir%dothis.scp
End>DoThis

gosub>DoThis,200,200,1,LClick,LShift,Hello Marcus

Label>EOF