alexmih

I find it totally mindboggloing that there deos not seem to be a single way with ME to capture/manipulate a file's timestamp (date and time). I do not see a SINGLE command anywhere to do this, and yet changing time stamps on files is a major thing with file maintenance, and there are tons of utilties to do this.

I guess I am going to have to devise some complex method of using ME to launch some 3rd party program to tinker with timestamps.

Does anyone know of any macro already developed to such a thing?

I have a folder of files that are all numers (66.jpg, 67.jpg) but I need to increase each file by one. How can I

1) sort in numeric order,

2) highlght top file with mouse

3) get that file name,

4) read into a numeric variable

5) increase the value (56 becomes 57)

6) rename the same file (no name conflict)

7) move cursor down to next file

REPEAT till end of folder??

I can code most of this except I doi not know how to do th first thing -- witrh a highlighted file, get the filename of the highlighted file.

Thanks

Sure you can. At least if I understand you correctly. I didn’t follow your explanation completely but you can use ME’s various window manipulation commands to do these things. For instance when ME runs you could have it save the name of the top most (focused) window to a variable that you can then use to minimize or what have you and later reactivate. Check out the commands Variable Set String > Set Value to Topmost Window Title and all of the Windows Programs category.

 

Also I would like to suggest that you leave ME running all the time with all your macros in there instead of storing them in MXE files. I was tempted for a while to save things in individual files but later realized life was much easier if I kept them all organized in one file which was forever active. To launch them from a command line you can use the MEProc.exe but I think one might also be able to use API calls. I’m not a programmer but I know other people here could probably elaborate on that.

>Check out the commands Variable Set String > Set Value to Topmost Window Title and all of the Windows Programs category.

Yes. this is exactly what I was looking for. I was looking under Windows for this and found nothing

Thanks

I have created a playable macro that is called in my trading charts. When a certain condition exists, the javaScrpt code shells out and runs the MXE file, and the trading chart window, which has just gained focus from whatever other window I was in, is minimized. The macro ends with the trading chart window minimized.

The problem is that the window I was working in (my trading windows all work by themselves and need not have focus to work), has now lost focus.

Can I write a macro that FIRST gets the CURRENT FOCUSED window (which may not be a trading chart), save it, and then work on the window it was called from to set focus to it, and minmize it, **and then** return focus back to the very FIRST window (which it saved somehow).

is this doable? In other words, the macro ends not when the trading chart is minimized, but when the window that had focus before the trading chart was minimized, is returned focus.