jesawyers

Hello All,

I'm developing a small macro for a WinXP box, that will eventually be headless...no monitor, keyboard, or mouse hooked up.

When developing the macro, I was using a monitor, keyboard, and mouse. The macro ran just fine in this configuration.

However, when I make the box headless, the macro does not work correctly. In particular, the following code that is using WinZip...

Launch and Activate: "WINZIP32.EXE"

Wait For Window Title: "WinZip"

Text Type: <CTRLD>n<CTRLU>

Wait For Window Title: "New Archive"

Text Type: C:\Valve_Data\Zipped_Files\%T1%.ZIP<ENTER>

Wait For Window Title: "Add"

Text Type: C:\Valve_Data\bin\%T1%.bin<ENTER>

Wait For Window Title: "WinZip - "

Text Type: <SHIFTD>a<SHIFTU>

Wait For Window Title: "Add"

Text Type: C:\Valve_Data\bin\%T1%.DSC<ENTER>

Wait For Window Title: "WinZip - "

Text Type: <SHIFTD>a<SHIFTU>

Wait For Window Title: "Add"

Text Type: C:\Valve_Data\ASCII\%T1%.TAB<ENTER>

Wait For Window Title: "WinZip - "

Text Type: <ALTD><F4><ALTU>

Wait Window Lose Focus: "WinZip"

What ME is reporting is on the second line that the title "WinZip" did not appear in the time allotted (60 seconds). I've tried different commands to try to make this happen with no success. WinZip does launch and activate, but sometimes I get the "WinZip did not appear..." and then sometimes it will get to the "New Archive did not appear..." error.

Does anybody have any ideas on why this may be happening? The version of WinZip I'm running is 9.0 and is an official version not the trial.

Again as long as I have the monitor hooked up to the box everything works.

Thanks...John

Hey Kevin,

Yep...that was it! God I love ME...what powerful tool!

Thanks again...John

Hi All,

I'm new to ME and was wondering if there is a way to display a dialog to allow the user to browse and then select a file during runtime. I've looked through all the functions and just can't find anything. I'm pretty sure I'm missing something here.

Thanks...John