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I'd be most interested in seeing one or more screenshots of your toolbars in customize mode!
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Firefox > Options > Toolbar layout displays the Customize window in my case. (As I showed earlier, I have the Firefox button in the top row and no Menu bar.) It looks like this and doesn't offer any Reload or Stop Loading button.
Well, of course it doesn't! That's because those 2 buttons are already in use, as I described in my latest text! As previously stated, you need to drag the reloading button, which is already on the relevant toolbar, either back to the Customize window, or immediately to the right of the Stop Loading button (actually, that can't be right; you simply need to drag it away from its current position which is immediately to the left of the Stop Loading button). And what a truly horrible non-standard design that is, to have 2 buttons subsumed into one when they happen to be adjacent and in a particular sequence..
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As far as I can tell, 'Done' no longer appears in FF4. In fact there seems to be no Status Bar, just an (optional) 'Add-on' Bar. Please correct me if I'm wrong; maybe there's an option I haven't found yet.
You need this addon - Restore FF Status Bar (this was easily found by googling "firefox 4 status bar"!)
Can you tell me how to get that changing X please? I can't find how to set that. Here's a full screenshot of my current setup.The 1st point in my 1st post touches on this implicitly. Here's what you need to do:
- View / Toolbars / Customize
- I'm pretty sure you'll see TWO buttons where your first arrow points to in your screenshot, namely the Reload and Stop Loading buttons. You can do 1 of 2 things: remove the reload button completely by dragging it back to the Customize Icons window (you don't really need it as F5 does the same thing), or place it immediately to the right of the Stop Loading button, in which case you'll then have the 2 buttons you used to have in FF3. Whichever choice you make, you'll have the same grey X as me. And now you'll almost certainly experience one of the many FF 4 bugs, in that once you've stopped customizing, you'll have to shut FF down using Task Manager, as the menu choices will have become greyed out (assuming you're displaying the menu bar).
I strongly recommend you do some research into FF 4 - none of the above was hard to discover.
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I have not yet installed Firefox 4, but here is something that I experimented with in Firefox 3. The script infers (since we can't detect directly) when a page is fully loaded. It "looks" for the word "Done" to appear on the status line at a particular place. The word is always black, e.g., colour = 0. The macro is supposed to find that spot.
I gave up on this approach because the word "Done" did not always appear in FF 3; I found numerous examples of nothing appearing (instead of Done), or the previous status being wrongly retained. Perhaps FF4 is better in this respect - I'll pay some attention to this now.
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However, I'm not sure I follow your approach Paul? The red X no longer exists here. I was therefore assuming it was now a matter of testing to see when the wheel stopped spinning.
I also use TMP.
I don't have a red X either. But, instead, I have a greyed out X when the page has loaded, and an ungreyed out X while it is loading. (And, instead of the greyed out X, you can opt for the reload icon once the page is loaded if you choose to combine the two icons, or you can restore the 2 separate icons as per FF3.n versions.) As I said, I get the spinning wheel only within each tab, to the left of the name, and which is replaced by the site icon once finished loading.
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Don't bother about the spinning wheel (actually, perhaps because I'm using Tab Mix Plus, the spinning icon appears on the tab, and not where the X is). If your spinning wheel is where the X should be, then I don't think any of what follows will be of use to you.
I have done as follows to make it all work as before:
1) Made my Stop Loading button (the X that used to be red) limited to that functionality, and removed the dual Reload capability - if you want to know how to do that, let me know: it's essential for the next step
2) Checked the colour at 75,70, which is directly below the X, one pixel to the right of centre. For my video card, this is 13817560 or 13751511 while the page is loading, and 13686231 or 13620182 when finished. But beware! Between Still loading and Finished loading there appears to be another set of colours that appears for a moment, in my case 13620695 or 13620438. So I treat these latter 2 colours (temporary unknown status) the same as the 1st 2 colours (still loading), only exiting my loop either when I discern either of the middle 2 colours (loaded), or when it all times out after my specified maximum wait time.
Why am I providing 2 sets of colours, you may ask? Well, I started this exercise and identified the first of each set of 2 colours. I then experimented with adding the reload capability, found that this killed the above logic, disabled it, and found a new set of colours! Go figure!
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Simply save an unused or "empty" text variable to the desired file (by "empty", I mean a variable whose value has been set to an empty string). You'll find this feature under Variable Modify String (which is a bit odd, since we're not modifying any strings!).
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I'm afraid this doesn't make sense to me. Isn't dividing by 5 and then multiplying by 5 the same thing as multiplying by 1??
125 / 5 = 5.
5 x 5 = 125.
Try these:
124/5 = 24
24*5 = 120
125 <> 120, therefore 124 is not a multiple of 5
125/5 = 25 (not 5 as you wrote above)
25*5 = 125
125 = 125, therefore 125 is a multiple of 5
QED
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1) Divide your number by 5, save this result (res1)
2) Multiply res1 by 5, save this result (res2)
3) If your number equals res2, your number is divisible by 5
Same with odd/even numbers, using 2 as the divisor.
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Odd indeed that Windows File Explorer would list these files in lexicographic order (e.g. file1, file10, file2, file20 file3 ... ) but that the operating system would report them in numerical order (e.g. file1, file2, file3,...,file10, file11,...,file20) - I think that's the difference. Both sorting methods are perfectly fine and "correct" - it is a question of preference.
Take a look at this registry setting - I think it will solve your problem.
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i prefer macro express to have the ability. it would make things simpler than adding another program.
Well, I don't suppose that many people care too much for what you prefer. I was merely providing you with a straight-forward solution that can be achieved now quite easily with existing free software.
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How about add the ability to activate macros with mouse button 4 / 5 [aka the back / forward buttons]?
Why don't you try AutoHotkey, whcih will allow you to activate macros with pretty well any of your mouse buttons or the wheel.
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If you have any control over how the text files are named, then try using 001.txt, etc. so that all file names have a numeric component of the same length. So if your largest number were 1000, then it would be 0001.txt.
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AutoIt allows you to identify controls by a number of different criteria, i.e. ID, Text, Class, position and size, instance. Having identified a control, you can then retrieve, and also set, its text. Since AutoIt interfaces directly with MEP, you might want to take a look.
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It's very easy to find the answer to this question with Google - it just takes a few seconds of effort (probably less time than writing your message).
My search term was
"windows 7" disable win+1"
and it produced this hit:
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here it is
How could this ever work?
In the text file you attached is the value
"AGF Statement MCRM 2010", terminated with Carriage Return and Line Feed (x0D0A)
- You read this entire value into %T[9]%, then do several replacements of various characters, and finish by twice replacing 2 spaces with one
- You then append "pdf"
- Then you do a save and restore of all text variables, for reasons which escape me
- Finally you use this name, suffixed with .pdf, to copy an existing file to.
So, even if it worked, your new file would be called (without the quotes):
"AGF Statement MCRM 2010**pdf.pdf"
where ** represents CrLf.
I have little idea what you really want to do here.
BTW, you're not losing "pdf" (note you haven't included the period); it's simply that you can't see it because of the CrLf characters.
In case you don't follow me, look at the next 2 lines:
The quick brown fox
jumps over the lazy dog
After "fox" is CrLf, which you can't see, but which causes the line "jumps over..." to appear below and aligned with "The quick...". But just because you can't see it doesn't mean these characters are not present.
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here it is! The copy command drops the ".pdf" after the variable, so I get a file with out an extenssion. a workaround was to have Adobe Acrobat open the file and then save it again. This gets me the pdf extension on the file.
Can you also include your mclscan.txt please?
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While MEP hardly makes any intelligent use of window handles, AutoIt is far more advanced, and it is probably possible to write one or more AutoIt scripts to do what you want. If you're interested, I may be able to help (for some consideration).
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If TextPad is an MDI application (and it looks like it may well be), then the windows you're seeing are actually more like controls than real windows. MS Access is an example of an MDI application, and it's very hard to address the windows properly. Take a look in the AutoIt and AutoHotkey forums (fora???) to see some of the difficulties people experience.
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That's interesting. How do you have a task bar on each?
UltraMon will give you a pretty decent taskbar on each monitor, with most of the functionality you'd expect:
But I no longer use the multiple taskbars feature of UltraMon, since I find the following software better:
Here's what they say about the multi-monitor component:
"Although there are several third party solutions that allow duplicating the taskbar on secondary monitors, they still have no or just partial support of the new taskbar features presented in Windows 7. Actual Multiple Monitors 3.0 is the first and only multi-monitor software that provides the exact replica of Windows 7 Taskbar on secondary displays."I also use AWM to allow me to "close" some windows, e.g. Firefox, by clicking on the X; this causes Firefox to minimize to the tray.
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A good start would be to tell us how you decide which file you want. Describe in detail the processes you use to determine your target file.
Is it only 1 file you use from the entire CD, or what?
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Well, stupid is as stupid does. Once I'd decided it was a bug in ME, I was blind to the bug in my code. Thanks, paul.
My face will eventually quit being this color...
Nothing to do with stupidity. I can stare at a few lines of code for hours and fail to see the obvious problem. If I walk away for a while, then come back to the problem, I can often see immediately what it previously took me hours to miss! Another technique is to explain, in excruciating detail, to another person (real or imaginary) exactly what the code does. It's amazing how often that does the job!
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This issue has nothing to do with virtualization. How do I know that? I ran your macro in my normal Windows 7 environment, and was prompted for the value each time. At first I thought the problem must lie with Permissions, but soon discovered this was not the case.
Curiously, your own code contains the answer!
Line 1 checks for the existence of a registry key, while line 3 writes a registry value!
Simply change line 1 to check for the existence of the registry value VM.
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BTW I put my taskbar on the left side of my primary screen about 2” wide and always on top. This affords me the ability to see what the titles are for most of the windows instead of just a little icon. Also I can see 20+ at a glance. It’s a personal preference to be sure but I can’t understand why anyone would have the taskbar at the bottom of the screen if they have dual or large displays and can afford the dedication or display real-estate. I just can’t stand the extra time hunting for ‘the’ window hidden in multiple icons with the same icons.
I have 3 19-inch screens, and an independent taskbar at the bottom of each, showing only those windows open on that screen. I personally can't stand having myriad windows open; I normally have no more than perhaps 8 windows open at most. I use all of my 3-screen real estate, and could not tolerate having a taskbar occupying as much space as would be needed to support having the taskbar on the left of any monitor!
Firefox 4: new 'loading' icon
in Macro Express and Macro Express Pro
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As a matter of interest, where is this file located in Firefox 4? I've read about 2 different locations, and, in any case, neither appeared to work for me.