jowensii

I've used ME to do screen scraping. The application (IE = CTRL + A) I screen scrap from allows me to select all text in the window with a keyboard shortcut. I then copy the selected items and either asign it to a variable or save it to file for further manipulation.

If you want a specific area of text this is obviously trickier but if you want to capture everthing the above should work fine, If the application doesn't have a shortcut to select all maybe have ME move mouse with L Mouse button down from upper left corner to lower right corner and maybe that would select text region.

I use IE 6 as my default browser. I use the below command to ensure that a new IE browser window is open with the web page I have defined in the parameter setting.

Program Launch: "IEXPLORE.EXE"

<LAUNCHDEL2:0:01C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\IEXPLORE.EXE<PARAM>http://www.google.com/advanced_search>

If you are using a different browser, as long as it as you can launch it with the appropriate parameter, it should work also.

That being said, you can control RegEdit in a manner identical with any other program using standard Macro Express commands as jowensii suggests.

You are right, I have done that but with over 400 machines this is very slow and the timing issue of the connections and windows made this a very bulky, time consuming process. It was my hope that ME could accomplish without using any external apps. Just wasn't meant to be. Thanks.

I'm not sure but I don't think you can access registry of remote workstations on a network, neither with ME nor manually ?!

Hi Nicolas,

Yes it's possible. I do it manually using RegEdit or regedt32 and under Registry menu item you can select "Connect Network Registry" I even use a program called 'Multi-Remote Registry Change" that is very powerful but somewhat tedious to setup for quick registry jobs for multiple network machines. ME would be great for quick batch registry edits and reads.

Thanks.

I've tried getting ME to Read/Write registry items of remote workstations on a network. I've had success with these commands on the local workstation. It's not a rights issue as I am an administrator on all the network workstations.

Local RegRead:

<REGRSTR:1:HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\>

I've edited the above command, adding \\workstation_name just before the key

Remote RegRead:

<REGRSTR:1:\\workstation_name\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\>

Maybe ME can't do this or my syntax isn't correct. Is this worthy of submitting a featrue request?

Thanks.

Thanks alot for the answer, the code from your post work, however, im not able to add a double click once the cursor is moved on the target and i have no idea why.

Are you placing the "Double-Click" command before the "Macro Stop" command?

Thanks, that did the trick. I knew that command was there but have never used it before and so it never crossed my mind to use.

This is a fantastic forum. I haven't seen to many forum were hardly a post goes unanswered. The group here is awesome.

Anybody have any suggestions as to why I cannot start a playable macro (MXE) from a regular macro. My macro uses a Mulitple Choic Menu that provides a list of macros to choose to run. The playable macro is stored on the network. Here is what I have:

Multiple Choice Menu: Track-It! Switchboard

Switch (T1)

Case: &Upload from PDT.

Program Launch: "MacExp.exe"

End Case

Case: &Add inventory to Track-It!

Program Launch: "MacExp.exe"

End Case

End Switch

Launch Macro #1

<LAUNCHDEL2:2:01C:\Program Files\Macro Express3\MacExp.exe<PARAM>/MXEN:\Info Resources\Track-It\MacEx\Track-It_PDT Comm.mxe>

Launch Macro #2

<LAUNCHDEL2:2:01C:\Program Files\Macro Express3\MacExp.exe<PARAM>/MXEN:\Info Resources\Track-It\MacEx\Track-It_New Inventory.mxe>

I have tried placing the path of the playable macro within quotes but that didn't help.

Excellent tip for ME users. I use both AutoIt and ME and have found myself using AutoIt's reveal function on several occasions when developing ME macros.

It would be great to be able to collect multple inputs with a single dialog box! :