poetman

Thx for the reactions

I have contacted Insight SS, I Il wait for their response

Poetman

Hi,

since years I own ME (v3.6).

I d like to use some of the facilities of ME Pro, so I downloaded the trial version.

But..... ME Pro has sometimes difficulties with recognizing windows with the Partial Match option selected.

Many topics in the fora, problem exists for years

So I set up a little test.

Made exactly the same little macro (put window [partial name] in the bottom right corner).

Tested it on some filetypes.

Surprisingly one filetype-window (.rtf , opened with Jarte) could not be macroed with ME Pro, only with good old ME.

Played around with settings, same results.

Repeated the test on another machine, same results.

Dont understand.

Any suggestions ?

Poetman

Thanks Samrae, for helping me.

I'm afraid it's not working for me, yet

I tried several commands: Set Window Order, and Activate Window, but the point is that the moment the A-window gets the focus the macro will run again and load the a-window, and set focus to it.

I discovered some sort of workaround though: when I dubbleclick twice in the A-window I seem to be able to overrule the restarting of the macro, and be able to enter the A-window.

I wonder if it would be possible to work with a variable ?

I tried with the Get Variable filename command, but then I don't know in which command to place the retrieved varable.

Any other thoughts ?

Poetman

Hi to evryone.

recently I tried to make a little macro, but it keeps biting its own tail

This is what I want to achieve: I've got a couple of files, let's say A, B, C etc.

And every file has an adherent file, let's say a, b, c.

When opening the A file, I'd liked the a file to be opened automaticly too.

(the A file-window and the a file- window appear next to eachother)

When messing around with A, B, and C, I want on changing the focus of the motherfile, the focus of the childfile to change along.

So I made this little macro:

macro activation is: Window Title (for example the title of the openened A file-window)

macro command is: Program Launch >> path of the a file (I couldn't find a File Launch command)

This does the job, A and a, B and b appear every time in a pair, as wanted, but..... working with the A a pair, I can't get the focus back to the A window, because immediately the focus goes to the childwindow a. And the only way to close A is using the Windows taskmanager.

It's a nice confusing puzzle.

Thanks in advance for any hint, suggestion or answer

Poetman

Hello to everyone

For some reason I need to create a sort of alternative for the delete-function in Explorer:

Whenever I press Del when working in Explorer/ My Documents, I want the files or folders not to move the Widows recycle bin, but instead to move to an folder which I made myself (named f.e. My Fake Recyclebin)

Can MacroExpress do this job ?

I presume yes, but I can't find the right commands (I'm not very experienced although I use a lot of very simple macro's)

Thanks in advance for any advice or hints

Poetman

Randall thanks, but what who where is ME filepicker (didn't get a search-match in the helpfile, nor on the Insight website)

Kevin thanks

I found some sort of simple half solution:

<WCLS:C:\><WCLS:C:\><WCLS:C:\><WCLS:C:\><WCLS:C:\><WCLS:C:\><WCLS:C:\><WCLS:C:\><WCLS:C:\><WCLS:C:\>

Takes about 6 seconds to run, I can live with that

I think I'll order the Macro Express book of Joseph Weinpert

All the best

Poetman

The Repeat with Folder command loops once through the entire list of windows (hidden and non-hidden) currently running on your system. It only loops once through the list of windows.

 

To confirm that the Repeat loop finishes, I would add a Sound Wave File or a Sound Beep command after the Repeat End. You can delete or disable this command later.

 

Is it possible that your macro is being activated again?

Kevin thanks for all your suggestions

I added a sound, so my macro looks like this now: <REPEATWIN:1:1:1><WCLS:C:\><ENDREP><BEEP>

The explorer folders are closed in maximum 5 seconds

The beep goes off after about 20 seconds (ans ME is OffLine for 15 seconds)

I don't understand what ME 3.0 is doing all this time, there are only 5 or 6 windows left open (1 with the focus, 5 in the background)

Can I enter a "time value", something that makes the macro repeat for maximum 6 seconds, or otherwise enter a value for the maximum amount of repeats, or even better add a repeat value that says repeat until no longer folders C:\ exist.

Is this possible in the "Repeat-Until" section ?

I tried to work with this commands, but I don't understand where to place the End repeat command

(I made something like this:<REPEATWIN:1:1:1><WCLS:C:\><ENDREP><BEEP><REP3:05:000001:000001:0001:1:01:>

<REP3:08:000001:000002:0001:0:01:5><ENDREP>

but ME stays asking for a correct End Repeat

Idon't understand Your second mail completely: I can click files and activate applications, your way to do this opens probably more opportunities, but I don't understand completely how to deal with this code (and how to implement it in my computer-situation)

I'm afraid one newbee can ask more than ten advanced members can answer

Grz

Poetman

Thanks Kevin & Lemming for your response

Although it's quite Hocus Pocus for me, I experimented with the Kevin's advices.

Now I think I am halfway my goal: I build a new macro that closes all windows with "C:\"in the title, (these seem to be my opened Explorer-folders)

Script: <REPEATWIN:1:1:1><WCLS:C:\><ENDREP>

This seems to work, only the macro stays running after closing al this windows, I Think I need some sort of "repeat Untill" command, only I don't Understand all the things that are offered in this dialogbox.

(Sure I tried several things ,f.e. I copied this from the help file, and added it to the macro script:

Variable Set Integer %N1% to 0

Repeat Until %N1% = 1

If Not Program Name "Explorer" running

Variable Set Integer %N1% to 1

End If

Repeat End

and had some exiting moments glazing at my monitor and seeing all sort of applications popping up, Macro Express jumping around, the macroscript-text being typed in several Wordprocessors etc etc.)

So my more specific question is : how can I make the macro <REPEATWIN:1:1:1><WCLS:C:\><ENDREP> to stop after it's work is done (all opened explorer folders to be closed)

Thank you guys for your time, and maybe someone has another tip for me

Poetman

PS Lemming : thanks for your suggestions on closing windows right after I'm done with them, but this doen't work for me

I'll trie your tip on: "window closing" code at regular intervals

Hello to everyone,

I'm a complete new user of ME 3.0, after three days of muddling along it was love at first sight.

I can't find a solution for this problem:

In my work I use ME 3.0 to open (using hotkeys) a lot of different Explorer folders, from which I select a file to work with.

The file loads in it's application, and on the background the Explorer folder-window stays open.

After an hour of work I find some thirthy opened Explorer folder-windows, that are in the way.

What I'm looking for is a kind of command that I can add to my macros, that says: "close window after selecting a file"

A (little lesser) alternative could be a new macro that says: "close all Explorer-windows" (but not the windows of opened applications)

Somehow I have the feeling that this should be possible with ME 3.0, but how ? and where ?

Hope I made myself a little clear

Thanks for any reply

Poetman