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Sebastian42

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  1. I don't have or like SYNC. I hope I do not have to utilise the export I am trying to make, but my experience of losing my bookmarks, makes me think this is a worthwhile effort. I might import rarely, but I want to export routinely to have the latest version available when needed. It is NOT the bookmarks page I am trying to reach - my macro has already achieved that. I am trying to open the menu of the Bookmarks Manager to access its EXPORT option. " Why can you just try it?" I have tried it and you are right, the URL is 'chrome: bookmarks' as you claim.
  2. Firstly to explain my motivation - I have had to uninstall and re-install Chrome (or thought I had to anyway). That is when I realised much effort could have been spared if I had saved the Chrome bookmarks - as I do routinely for Firefox. So I researched the location for Chrome bookmarks and saved them. I thought I better test HOW to restore the bookmarks when needed and the word IMPORT came to mind - if there are other methods for Chrome, I do not know them. The import mechanism does not 'see' the bookmarks I had saved. That is when I thought the obvious thing to import is an Export. 'Why use buttons ?' - well I did not know any better way. I will try your suggestion. However - it seems to imply that my bookmarks are in the ether/cloud/out-there, and I doubt if that is the case. If it IS the case, it is so against my wishes. 'Would you like me to make you a screen recording off how to paste commands in MEP Script Editor? ' Thank you for the offer, but I see merit in struggling with it FIRST before being shown solutions to problems I am not aware of. My difficulties start AFTER the Bookmarks page - in the Bookmarks Manager page, where a manual TAB opens its menu (with the export option), but the macro's TAB does NOT open the menu. 'You might want to look at the import features of your destination app if it's a browser. ' The destination is Chrome and at first it seemed to accept only Firefox bookmarks - but I got over that hurdle. 'If your program supports Tab or CSV import' - My program is Chrome.
  3. Starting with your second suggestion : I did that and found that the file formats are not the ones required for import; that is why I went for Export. Your first suggestion I do not understand - I was expecting code and it looks like code, but I have no idea how to apply it. However you wrote 'go to', and it does not look like a URL either.
  4. <COMMENT Value="TAB to select Bookmarks Manager Menu"/> <TEXT TYPE Action="0" Text="<TAB>"/> The second issue is that although I can MANUALLY select the Bookmarks Manager's Menu by 'tab', in the macro that does not work.
  5. <COMMENT Value="CTRL Down SHIFT Down B CTRL Up Shift Up to select Bookmarks Bar"/> <TEXT TYPE Action="0" Text="<CTRLD><SHIFTD>B<CTRLU><SHIFTU>"/> <DELAY Flags="\x01" Time="0.1"/> <COMMENT Value="Down to select Bookmarks Manager"/> <TEXT TYPE Action="0" Text="<ARROW DOWN>"/> I want a macro to automate the export of Chrome Bookmarks. I've run into two difficulties - for the first I managed to create a work-around as shown above - but I would like to reduce that to one line of code. The second issue I will post IN THIS THREAD but separately, because I fear confusion between the two issues if posted here.
  6. I made multiple posts but for NOT the same issue - and deliberately started new threads because in other forums i have been reprimanded for bringing new issues into a thread. I do appreciate the help i have been given - and have stated so, but as twice before - can not find mention of that in the thread. The macro I was trying to construct now works well, thanks to the various hints I've been given in the forum.
  7. rberq - I'm not exactly a newbie - having used ME for many years - but my increased understanding of its workings in 2020 probably equals or exceeds that up to 2020. As I become more aware of its potential, I'm becoming more ambitious. However, if not a newbie maybe a moron, because I am not aware of being told something three times. Cory - the 'e' issue was solved by Samrai - I have moved in since then. Acantor - I'm about to experiment with y versus Y - If I remember correctly, a date inserted by ME is not in the format I want it - today being 20200821. I repeat that one or two posts I have made have not appeared in the forum - so my response may seem to have gaps. Using 'y' instead of 'Y' fixed the date insertion issue. Incidentally I used the more secure <CTRLD>y<CTRLU> that Samrai alerted me to. There is of course yet another blockage ! EVERY step is a battle. That blockage was obviated by inserting a delay. ONE step to go ! ALSO fixed by a delay. The macro now finally runs as desired - many thanks to all the contributors to this success.
  8. I'm very confused about that is happening in this forum. Samrae gave me the correct hint to get the Export dialog opened. I reported this and then listed the next obstacle - that invoking another macro did not have the desired effect, but I can not find any mention of that in this thread.
  9. I have both clicked the follow option and also neglected to. Samrae - You are right (of course) - just E triggers the export dialog. So THAT is now fixed. Also the next step to activate the export process works. Then the dialog prompts for a name, and if I manually type CTRL Y, a date appears, but if I let the macro type CTRL Y, nothing happens. The CTRL-Y is a Macro Express macro which types today's date in the desired format. I do not mind which method is used, but the next step is to enter today's date in the text box and that is eluding me.
  10. Still trying to automate the Export of Active Desktop Calendar's data. My macro now opens the drop-down that exposes the EXPORT option but the coding for neither ALT-E nor for down-arrow-to-Export, works as required\expected. The time delay has been tried from 1 to 5 seconds. So how can I make either of those effective ?
  11. I have posted three times and the second one got resolved before anyone replied. I can not find my third post in the forum - so will try to repeat it as a new thread
  12. This is my third post about trying to get Active Desktop Calendar EXPORT automated. First post got a useful reply. Second post, I should not have made. Now I am stuck again. I have the drop down open, but ALT E does NOT result in the Export window opening, even though the drop-down lists Export with an underscored E. I've experimented with time delays from 1 to 5 seconds. I've also been unable to shift the highlighting down to Export with Down Arrow.
  13. Following on from a recent post that helped me open Active Desktop Calendar, I now face the challenge of selecting DATA from the menu bar - in order to select/activate EXPORT, as shown in the snip. LATER I realised that the D of Data is underscored and so can be accessed through ALT-letter - so that cancels this question.
  14. Acantor - I could not quite understand why you reproduced those two very similar lines, but I gathered enough from your post to delete everything after the hyphen you mentioned, and instead of selecting from RUNNING PROGRAMS, to actually put in the full path in - that produced the required result. For your info I'll include a snip of the code that worked.
  15. I want to automate the export of Data from Active Desktop Calendar. Manually I would start by launching the program and selecting the DATA menu - which has an Export Option. I cannot get my macro to even open the program. To build the macro : I launch the desired window of ADC so that Macro Express would be able to see it as a 'Running Process', then select from 'Windows/Programs' : Activate or Launch Launch Program and Activate Window or Program Launch but none of those three will even open the ADC window, so I can make no progress. The Debug error says "The file could not be located". There is a related problem that the ADC window has title starting with the invariant part 'Active Desktop Calendar' followed by detail highly specific to the day. Obviously only the invariant part should be coded into the macro. I feel that 'variables' might deal with eliminating that part of the problem, but cannot begin to think how.
  16. If I can not get M.E. to be launched as needed, then I will just launch it with windows.
  17. Had written a detailed account about not knowing how to apply your code, then discovered Date/Time in Variables command, set the format I wanted, and presto - it works. Thank you. However, what if Macro Express is not yet launched ? Ideally, JUST pressing CTRL D should enter today's date - Will that require M.E. to be launched at (every) StartUp ?
  18. CTRL: inserts the date in Excel; I want that functionality on a hotkey in Windows. I think it is likely that it already exists - but what is it ?
  19. I found 'Configure bug report' in the Options menu, but clicking on that produced no effect.
  20. Cory - I know which macro runs when that happens. I had recently added 'Terminate Macro Express' at the end; adding a sufficiently long delay before that, stops the error from showing.
  21. Recently a Macro Express icon has been appearing in the Task Bar - and also the error message as in the appended pic. When I close the error message, the Macro Express icon disappears from the Task Bar. So I infer that something about the workings of Macro Express has offended Windows. How can I prevent the error message from appearing ?
  22. The program is active after my three-line macro. I have highlit the variables "I tried to do that with the right number of TABs" when that did not work I replaced the tabs with ENTER, that works MANUALLY. I'm not confirming anything - I repeat 'I am not sure' I entered Notepad as shown in the second screen shot. The macro launches notepad and the insert marker is in Notepad ready to enter text. "It's not normally visibly evident that a program is running in elevated mode" but something must trigger the elevation of that mode. It is not needed, but if it happens, I have no idea what triggers the elevation.
  23. None of Ctrl+Alt+C Shift + Alt + F3 Ctrl + Shift + Numpad 3 have any effect after Casper has launched "Is the program definitely active when the macro ends?" at this point I have only 'test run' the macro, so I am not sure that it ends. But in that test, a Casper window gets launched and is susceptible to manual mouse clicks. "Try adding a Window Activate before the Enter. " I had done that, but the window stays 'unmoved'. There is an option to specify VARIABLES, but I can not begin to understand what is required there. 2s is the longest delay i have tried. Adding a 0.1s delay after ENTER effects NO improvement. "Are you sure another operation is not needed before the Enter?" I am NOT sure. After Casper launches, a selection must be made. I tried to do that with (the right) number of TABs, but that failed to achieve the desired result. "replace Casper.exe with another program that you know always responds to Enter directly after launch" That is a challenge that will take time to work out. a second ENTER improves nothing "I just run it, so there is no reason to think it needs administrative privileges." is my answer to Samrae’s question.
  24. Yes, I launch it from a shortcut, the Properties of which are in the 'attached' image. I can't detect any parameters. I just run it, so there is no reason to think it needs administrative privileges. Adding 'Wait for window title' does not improve things. Casper opens, which is all I could expect from a RUN command - it's the progress after that which is lacking, and I would not know how to code that into RUN. The delay before i responded was because I did not get the expected alert about replies.
  25. When I manually open Casper and press ENTER, it presents a dialog window allowing further progress. That dialog window does NOT open when I run a macro with the code as in the uploaded image where I have coded for action that replicates what I do manually. How can I get the macro to produce the same result as my manual process ?
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