monaghana

Which version of windows are you using and do you have Windows PowerToys TweakUI installed? If XP and you do have TweakUI installed, try the following:-

Open TweakUI

General

Focus

Uncheck 'Prevent applications from stealing focus' and try your macro again.

Perhaps simplest would be to do this:

// Save position of mouse
Variable Set Integer %X%: Set to the Mouse X Coordinate
Variable Set Integer %Y%: Set to the Mouse Y Coordinate

Text Type (Simulate Keystrokes): <ALTD>d<ALTU>
Delay: 0.1 seconds
Text Type (Simulate Keystrokes): <CTRLD>c<CTRLU>
Delay: 0.1 seconds
Variable Set String %URL% from the clipboard contents

// Restore position of mouse
Mouse Move: %X%, %Y% Relative to Screen
Delay: %Delay% seconds
Mouse Left Click

This moves the mouse but moves it back.

Thanks for the suggestion. I knew that method, but was hoping there was a neater way of doing it.

' Set your settings
strFileURL = "%URL to Download%"
strHDLocation = "%Local File Name%"

' Fetch the file
Set objXMLHTTP = CreateObject("MSXML2.XMLHTTP")

objXMLHTTP.open "GET", strFileURL, false
objXMLHTTP.send()

If objXMLHTTP.Status = 200 Then
  Set objADOStream = CreateObject("ADODB.Stream")
  objADOStream.Open
  objADOStream.Type = 1 'adTypeBinary

  objADOStream.Write objXMLHTTP.ResponseBody
  objADOStream.Position = 0	'Set the stream position to the start

  Set objFSO = Createobject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
	If objFSO.Fileexists(strHDLocation) Then objFSO.DeleteFile strHDLocation
  Set objFSO = Nothing

  objADOStream.SaveToFile strHDLocation
  objADOStream.Close
  Set objADOStream = Nothing
End if

Set objXMLHTTP = Nothing

 

Cory, I am aware that it is possible to use external scripts, but how do you actually use this from within a macro?

 

I know you put the script part in the 'External Script' command and assign a variable, say %T1%, but which command(s) do you use to execute the code? Help is not too helpful with this.

 

Regards,

 

Alan Monaghan

Kirkcaldy, Scotland

Confirmed, it’s a bug!

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I’ve tried various combinations and manual registry hacks and it will not go away. I’ll report it.

Thanks Cory!

Alan Monaghan

Kirkcaldy, Scotland

Has anyone tried version 4.1.1.1 yet to see if it has cleared up any / all of the 'slowing down' issues?

Alan Monaghan

Kirkcaldy, Scotland

I tried that, but upon re-opening ME, it returned.

notbob,

I have just tried this and what you say is correct. This seems to be since the latest release 4.1.1.1 as I tried it prior to upgrading and the Sidebar *and* the Toolbar remained hidden after restarting MEP. With the latest relaese they both reset to being visible after restarting MEP.

They do remain hidden for the duation of a session though, so more an annoyance than anything else.

If you like, I will submit this as a bug.

Alan Monaghan

Kirkcaldy, Scotland

Since my last post on this, I've noticed that if you increase the value for Keystroke Speed at the start of the macro helped to stop this happening. You will need to experiment with the value though.

Alan Monaghan

Kirkcaldy, Scotland

Does anyone know if it is possible to define the amount of elements in an array which can be used to set the number of array elements? I know that I can use the %T% variables etc. but I would like to define them first.

What I am trying to do is take a screenshot of a Reflection console in order to extract field values. I would save these to a variable first and save this to a file. Text process the file to extract the number of lines on the screen and use this value to define the number of elements required in the array. The problem is, MEP doesn't seem to allow you to use a variable in the Variable Properties dialog box. I know I could probably get away with the built-in arrays, but I thought it would be neater my way.

Any suggestion?

Alan Monaghan

Kirkcaldy

Scotland