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Hi again, I use FTP only occasionally; to upload photos and screen shots! I use "FileZilla", and there are no doubt lots of FTP programs that allow browsing. In ME, I use FTP which I have set up manually just for occasional repetitive procedures, and not extensively enough to find it a frustration. I guess such could be written; but not a high priority for me personally; perhaps the other guys have it in my with their Web gear?.... Best, Randall

Hi, I have no idea! - Don't know Web forms very well or FrontPage at all! Probably possible, but you would be the alpha developer, I suspect! Randall PS Were you looking at the HTA formbuilder that I wrote or Floyd's original? - I can talk about mine; if so, it was still very rough when I stopped doing anything with it. The forms were really just a starter, and not easy if you've been used to a "proper" program; really I was just exploring for minor applications with a few inputs.

Hi Joe, Hey, I'm really not that fussed; I would only be against it if there were no warning that came up when first making a macro at any apparent banking or financial institution, Credit card site etc and said "You are putting your financial security at risk if you continue in view of potential bypass of your password at this site"! Can you identify such sites within the macro, and give reasonable warning? I vaguely wonder if you are putting yourself at legal risk. Would a simple blanket warning stand up in court! (I'm no lawyer, though!) Perhaps you know more about it if there are other companies who have made password bypassing part of their programs? Best, Randall EDIT; My wording keeps coming out stronger than I really feel about this - sorry!

hi again, Cory, The Source idea was great! Here is a better macro which works for any Edit buttons on the current thread. It adds the line "Could duplicte" or similar to each post with the edit button showing. I use MEBasic and the Wizard for my string handling, but you get the gist..... (links in Signature) Best, Randall EDIT -PS Cory, do you have some examples to share? ***** ==== (presently needs MEBasic else crash) ***** ========= WebEditButtons.mxe

Hi! I haven't tried yet; but Cory's idea in this thread might work; (I have seen others try to find the buttons by matching pixels from the screen; search the site "pixels"?) the script below doesn't quite work yet ((gets confused where the next "tab" is, but the logic should work if you're really determined to get it going?) EDIT - removed as not working; let me know if you need it See post below for file working from source (no longer needs MEBasic) Best, Randall

Hi, Floyd, It's not just the encryption, though, is it? It is the whole concept that a stolen laptop could be used to log on to a Banking WebSite, just by running a macro, and not having to enter a password. Even having it available around home would be a problem for visitors accessing your Wesites! - I mean, an individual might not be too concerned to have their email available to anyone, but corporations should be worried, and banking sites should worry everyone, I would have thought. It worries me that you might include it in a package! More for your thoughts, Best, Randall

Hi, Joe, Are you able to do a similar thing wit Hotmail? I presume I can't test Bob's site? Is the password testing just for a process and "proof of concept"? I would not be happy to make such shortcuts to a banking site, for instance; all the macros I make for such sites have incomplete passwords. The worry after losing a laptop etc with those macros intact would be extreme? Randall

I have done similar things; I think I see what you mean, Joe; the batch file here is a DOS batch file; you cannot stop the batch file going on to the next ME3 call, but the ME3 macro should check before it goes on whether the previous instance has completed its task and written the "marker" file or registry entry (even environment variable would still be preserved?) Randall

Hi, I haven't had any confirmation that the "Wizard" is working or easy/ difficult to run on other machines. Can anyone please give me any feedback? Additionally, I had hoped someone better at PGMacros could write some equivalent short scripts to emulate the string handling in MEBasic so I can incorporate them in the Wizard? - any takers? Best, Randall

Hi, I don't know RoboHelp; it would depend, I think, whether there is a specific Window or process opened (for which there may be a "Wait" command) to run the "batch" commands you are talking about which ME calls? - is it a "DOS" batch command, for instance? - Someone else may know the type of process you are discussing. Randall

Hi, Joe's book is great! it has stimulated me to get all my maros working when I wasn't sure anything could be done or made reliable; there's usually an answer! Best, randall

OK - Link to site with explanation is in link below in "signatuire" - really just an attempt to look at sting handling easier - see also the "Wizard" which can help with use of PGM too (only one example so far) PGM/MEBasic Wizard Randall

Hi, Kevin, I am sure you have a complex understanding of a complex problem here! i don't follow what happens when the Disabled macro which disables itself early on is re-enabled; doesn't it just run the "early disable" command and not work? In any case how does this apply to the problem of "- start once the task "open software", 18 hours and 5 minutes after the starting up of Macro Express."? Thanks, Randall. EDIT - Sorry to be so slow! I was having trouble seeing what each macro does here. In simple terms to me, your solution entails; 1. Set a trigger macro to run at a certain time you want after start-up (but such a time can not be just set "once" - must be "every"). 2. So that it only runs once, instead of "every 18.5 hours" or 30mins, 3. include in that macro a command to disables itself, so it only runs once. 4. Then next time at startup, it won't run as it is disabled, so we need the second macro just to re-enable , so it is scheduled at every start-up! - GOT IT! eventually.

Hi, Paul, Thanks for looking - See latest version (start of thread) as I am part way through increasing overall size; Not very tidy yet ( Oh well); I take your point. Thanks for the feeedback. (You will see you can change the font for the text boxes on the fly; I'll organise to change defaults as well.) Randall Wizard latest version ScreenShot

Hi, Cory, Well I think that's a great trick! Saves 25 unreliable tabs on some pages, and replaces with a couple when I've tested it. Best, Randall

Sorry for being vague! A. INSTALL 1. Unzip "MEbasicWizard.exe" to Macro Express directory (at present must be [Program Files Directory] "\Macro Express3" directory. 2. Hotkey (eg as in my mex file "Control-Shift-W" [3. If you wish to try the MEBasic Demo (buggy!), run the macro library (already has the wizard start macro] as well. ] (None of the installation is critical () you must ** once run the startup macro for registry of Install Directory; you could just in simplest form put the "MEbasicWizard.exe" anywhere, and make a shortcut; the output code just goes to the clipboard and could be inserted manually) - an "ini" file is made in Macro Express install Directory B. RUN 1. Open a macro file in Script Editor, go to line (eg end of file, or preferably beginning of empty one while trying it out). 2. Press Hotkey. [That will start the Wizard] C. WIZARD. 1. Will open on "Command type" "MEBasic" at bottom left, with appropriate list in left child window, and default example as at top of list "BtwCharMid$" - you can use that if you want, to change the criteria and make an "MEBasic" macro (but won't run in ME unless you are running or have imported MEBasic MEX as from the zip file) 2. To change to others in list, simply single click. 3. For PGM, go to PGMFunctions in botttom left Combo Box. The left list will change; only one option; "PGM Parse Strings", comes up as selected default first in the list. 4. Change the start token number in appropriate updown picker (won't affect anything while Token count "0" as all tokens taken, so change to 1 or 2 , for example). 5. You will see the command in top blue window changes as you change the "Updown" selection, and the output changes in 2 windows. 6. Change the delimiter as desired./ Change the top input Window to try any string you wish to see the effects. (Click on the list item or any background grey area of the GUI to refresh display). (The final string left in this window (e.g. (%T2%)) will be exported eventually to your ME script when you “Create”). 7. Once you are happy with the selection, click on button bottom left ("Create ME Command"), and this will re-activate ME Script Editor and insert the generated lines (if occasional problem with focus, do it manually and simply "Paste" from clipboard) 8. You can delete those and re-run Wizard Start to return to the Wizard, or just get ready to generate another command in the Wizard and change back manually. Please let me know if I am still not clear enough. Obviously, also, it is still just a demo; and I am still fixing what is there (have nearly got the "Whitespace" selection working, but not available in the current posting) Best, Randall (PS I will keep most recent version on first post in this thread) Wizard EDIT - you will need latest MEBasic MEX to test it reasonably at present. BasicME Lite BasicME Lite Discussion

Hi! I don't know if there is a special "setting" for this? 1. I open macro express from a desktop shortcut to the "mex" file I want to startup with; ""C:\Program Files\Macro Express3\MACEX.Mex" 2. I guess I could turn off "automatic startup with Windows" and use Windows task scheduler for my shortcut if i wanted it to start that way at Windows startup? Best, Randall

Hi, I don't know the answer to Q1. maybe others.... The workaround I use is to set the base path at the beginning of each macro depending on machine name (for which there is a variable set from.. command). This makes it "portable", which I presume is your requirement; then parse as you need as per previous topic; path parsing Best, Randall

Hi, Joe and Floyd, Here is an example of what I thought of as a wizard for PGM. I think, as it writes the code you select for you, it would make PGM more attractive? At the moment, the instruction set and manual are a little daunting? What do you think? Best, randall Here is the generated Code; The 3 zipped files need to go in Macro Express directory; you don't need the MEBasic.mex for PGM only (runs with "Control-Shift-W" in MeBasic MEX); just import the "Wizard Start" macro and run by hotkeywhen you are ready in Scrip Editor to insert some code (only PGM one so far is "Parse") Best, Randall PS Can you tell me if it is working other than on my machine!? Edit June 6th; (PS I will keep most recent version on first post in this thread) EDIT - Source code now included in ZIP file with "exe" and MEBasic SEE instructions for self- compiling script or reading it yourself, as in other thread; Wizard instructions for Script, compile if needed MEbasicWizard.zip

Hi, No setting I know of; you might need to have a macro start on startup which saves a file with a time; then run another macro on a schedule every minute or whatever to check if the time difference is up.There's a macro somewhere on the site which does this. Best, Randall Timer topic

Hi, Settings in IE6 "Reuse windows for launching shortcuts" - turn it OFF in Tools/Internet Options/ Advanced Tab/ Browsing (alphabetically in list) Best, Randall

I have 2 email addresses at the same site; Yor program reloads the previous login when I run the next login, unpredictably unable to get into the second for a while? Randall EDIT; DON"T WORRY!; this appears to be normal behaviour for this site outside of the macro if the forst login is still active

Hi again, Randall EDIT:; my 2 webmail sites work fine (edited as initially I messed up the password and got an error! Hotmail still recalcitrant? Looks good?

Hi Joe, Your macro doesn't like hotmail much? "An error occured while examining the "http://login.passport.net/uilogin.srf?lc=3081&id=2" web page. There was no INPUT tag element, or there was no TEXT type field, or there was no PASSWORD type field, or any combination of these." Randall

EDIT - I think you are right. It looks fiddly; perhaps, as in the source for {Go Days} Alternatively, there seems to be a { DateTime - Parse Day from Julian },{ DateTime - Parse Month from Julian },{ DateTime - Parse Year from Julian } etc set of functions to call?; so you don't need to call the { DateTime - Julian to Date }? I'll await Joe's answer with interest