Billy.Quick

I've just discovered this. I'm attempting to increase the reliability and level of direct control of some scripts I've been using and am wondering if this option might be useful, but cannot find any information on it, i.e. what does it do, what is it, etc...? I've looked in ME's "Help", and also searched this forum. What is the "console" and what would it's "output" be? What would be the result of this command when launching Internet Explorer? Thanks in advance.

Thanks Paul. That really solved everything. Not only do I have a static and controllable starting point, but I can get to where I'm going within the page with fewer keystrokes (less to go wrong). A solid WIN all the way around. Great answer, and thanks a lot.

Woot ! It CAN'T be that simple. Lemme go try.

I'm scaling up a small operation and a chronic error is now unacceptable. When IE loads, usually the cursor is in the same position within the particular page, and from that point you can make it go where you want using "tab" and "shift + tab". However, about 20% of the time, the IE Page loads with the cursor "somewhere else", and that screws the whole macro up. It's been like this for at least a year, but now I have to deal with it and fix it. What I want to do is find a way to get the cursor to a "home" position immediately after the IE page loads, so that it is always starting from a known and predictable position. But I can't get the keyboard to control the cursor in any other way than those I've mentioned. "home" doesn't work, etc... And the mouse is a bad option because screen position changes from monitor to monitor. Any help?

I've used ME for years with very nice results. It's always done exactly what I needed it to, but over the last several months I have changed my focus and feel like it is time to (as they say) "move up to the next level". Up to this point, I've used ME to post on Craigslist, with an occasional experiment here & there, but now I'm doing internet marketing, and see an opportunity to make good money using "Bots" to do certain tasks. Most IM'ers in this situation hire someone to make these 'bots, or they make them themselves. I've read about a software called "Ubot", and maybe a few more. I'm reluctant to use these because I suspect these are dumbed-down softwares and make lack the power that I may require someday. I do not intend to make a career of programming, so I want to get the right software/platform on the first try, rather than spending time & energy learning to use a software that turns out to be limited compared to something else. And, in case anyone is wondering, another reason to not hire someone else to write these 'bots (besides cost), is that you then empower someone else with an awareness of your niche. Your programmer could then become your biggest competitor, and you've paid him to write the tools that deprives you of your income. However unlikely that may seem, I'm not willing to live with that "uneasy feeling", and would rather have the security of knowing that I am the only one that knows about the possible economic opportunities I'm trying to take advantage of, because I've written the software myself. So that's what I want to do, and why. The real question is how. I've read about Java, Visual Basic, and a few others but do not know enough about any of them to have any sense of what the differences are between them, and why one might be better for my purposes than another. It does occur to me that ME might be all that I need, and that the skills I've developed in writing these Macros might also serve to write these 'bots, but my concern is that I may come to a point where I need ME to do something that it cannot do, and I will have spent time & energy getting myself to a place that turns out to be a "dead end". Thanks in advance for any help.

Recently, a function that used to work in a Macro I wrote stopped working. I suspect something about Internet Explorer has changed. The Command: "Internet>Web Site: https:// (etc...)" launches one instance of Internet Explorer, but two different tabs. The first tab is launched without a web-address, and cycles indefinately per the "wait for web-page to load" tick, and the second tab loads the URL correctly, but the script will not move forward due to the hanging first IE tab. This happens whether "Default Browser" or "IE" is checked. I'm developing a work-around by trying to launch a specific instance of IE with the URL as secondary, but getting the "wait for" to work is a bit hairy for me. I'm using IE 7 and Vista Ultimate, if this matters. Any help or explanation appreciated. Billy