terrypin Posted February 19, 2007 Report Share Posted February 19, 2007 I'm pretty sure I did have this working fine when I last tried it a few days ago, but now it fails repeatedly. It's aim is simply to bring up ME's Mouse Locator. Sometimes I can get it to run with F9 from the Scripting Editor, but F8 doesn't work and nor does the assigned hotkey. Activate Window: "Macro Express" Keystroke Speed: 10 Milliseconds Wait For Window Title: "Macro Express" // Tools > Mouse Locator Text Type: <ALT>tl Window Minimize: "Macro Express" Tried delays, ALTD/ALTU, and various other amendements, all without success. Can anyone suggest where it's going wrong please? Am I perhaps making a basic error in trying to get ME to sort of 'operate on itself'? -- Terry, West Sussex, UK Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joe Posted February 19, 2007 Report Share Posted February 19, 2007 What happens if you change the target window title in your commands from "Macro Express" to "Macro Express -"? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
terrypin Posted February 19, 2007 Author Report Share Posted February 19, 2007 Thanks Joe, but that made no difference. Whatever version I use, ranging from the ultra-simple Activate Window: "Macro Express" Keystroke Speed: 100 Milliseconds Text Type: <ALT>tl to variations like the one in my original post, I get similar results. It runs OK from Scripting Editor with F9 or hotkey. And it appears to run (running man) when ME Editor is minimised, but no Mouse Locator appears. And, although I haven't been able to repeat it, on one occasion, with a very slow keystroke speed, I briefly observed it applying Alt, t, l to another application entirely, Textpad, my text editor, which was just minimised in the XP Home Taskbar! I think that was using F8, but, as mentioned, that seems erratic. And F8 always sticks on the 'Wait for Window' command, despite the window being present throughout. Maybe I was mistaken, and I have never been able to run it with ME Editor minimised. But is there any reason in principle why you can't use Activate etc on ME windows please? -- Terry, West Sussex, UK Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul Posted February 19, 2007 Report Share Posted February 19, 2007 There's a better solution, which I stumbled across recently. Try: Program Launch: "MSLocate.exe" (in the ME folder) Note this doesn't require the ME editor to be active or visible! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joe Posted February 19, 2007 Report Share Posted February 19, 2007 Geez Paul ... that was simple Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
terrypin Posted February 19, 2007 Author Report Share Posted February 19, 2007 Neat - thanks Paul! -- Terry, West Sussex, UK Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul Posted February 20, 2007 Report Share Posted February 20, 2007 I aim to please. However, I often fail miserably <g>! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cory Posted February 20, 2007 Report Share Posted February 20, 2007 Don't we all. Someone told me it's called learning but if that's the case I would be a genius by now and that's clearly not the case. <g> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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