kmaster

Searching for a button can be made to work. From your description, it sounds like the button you want to activate is an actual pushbutton, not a hypertext link styled to look like a button. It is not possible to search for pushbuttons because they do not consist of actual text.

 

This web site (pgmacros) has many examples of non-text buttons. For example, when you are composing a message on this forum, you cannot search for the "Add Reply" button because the words are not actual text. So you cannot use your browser's find command to move to the "Add Reply" button.

 

But try this:

 

Identify unique text that occurs NEAR the "Add Reply" button, e.g., "Enable email notification of replies?" or "Use None." Then search for that text. Then Tab one or more times until the button gets focus. (If you search for text that appears after the button, use Shift + Tab.) Then press spacebar to activate the button.

 

The macro will look something like this:

 

//Initiate find

Text Type <CONTROL>f

// Wait for Find dialog to appear...

Wait 200 ms

// Search for text...

Text Type "Use None"

// Start Search

Text Type <ENTER>

// Close Find dialog...

Text Type <ESC>

// Wait for Find dialog to go away...

Wait 200 ms

// Tab to Add Reply button...

Text Type <TAB>

// Activate it...

Text Type <SPACEBAR>

 

 

This is not a bulletproof solution, but I hope it gets you started.

 

You should also check the source to see if whether the web developers use the accesskey attribute for anything. If yes, you may be in luck. Accesskey is a hotkey to navigate to a fixed location on a page. For example, if the accesskey for a link is "X", then you can navigate directly to that link with Alt + X (IE) or Shift + Alt + X (Firfox). Then Tab or Shift + Tab to your target, as above.

 

If you check the source for this page, you will discover this line:

 

<input type="submit" name="dosubmit" value="Add Reply" tabindex="7" class="button" accesskey="s" />

 

That's the code for the "Add Reply" button, which has accesskey = "s", which means you can activate it directly with Alt + S (IE) or Shift + Alt + S (Firefox). No searching required!

That was what I did earlier and it worked great.

thanks for all the help and suggestions. you guys are the best.

Okay I have written a macro that goes online and populates a web page with information from one .csv file, but I it to open another .csv file. I am making it repeat using the ascii loop feature. Can I nest these. Can I have one ascii file begin process nested into another. I hope that make sense. Thanks

Kris

Here is my problem. I have a button that I want to click on to upload files to a website. But every file I upload will cause the button to move futher down the page. I tried to use cntrl f to find the button on the page, but it cannot find the button. Any suggestions on how I can find this button and click it?

Thanks in advance.

Kris

Hello.

Here is my question.

I have a list of names , lets say 100 each on a separate line. I want to take them one at a time and set the variable in a macro that loops until they are all completely added in.

Example List:

apple

orange

grape

cherry

peach

Lets say I have a website and I want to create a folder for each of these variables.

I want my macro to first grab the text file

then read how many lines there are

then make a directory for the each line with the text from that line

when their are no more lines, then I want my macro to continue.

How do I get it to do this???

thanks for the help