dear macro-gurus: i need some help getting data into an exceptionally quirky program (no menus, not alt-key combos, sometimes 65+ tabs to get form one part of screen to another, etc). i need to read a list of folders, and give the program in a FileOpen dialog box a path that includes the name of the...

we just watched a movie called Prime. funny. this guy has an image of his grandmother hitting herself on the head with a pan every time he misbehaves. I NEED A VERY BIG POT for my dumb head. Press Ctrl Press Tab Release CTRL--that did it! Not as insane as I thought it was. Though not as easy as some...

JRL's tip to take the p out of the ALT-fp and put in on a line by itself works for printing. But the next part should save the file with a new file name. But nothing seems to happen. The keystrokes work in the sense that I can do all these steps exactly this way manually and the program does what I ...

Hi, I read a list of files all w/ .txt extension. Program I am passing that info to needs to have just the filename passed to it, not the extension. Been searching the archives here and found this copy command pasted below--but I don't completely understand the syntax. Code: //code to read file list...

I tried the suggestion of

Press ALT
send>f
wait>1
send>p
Release ALT

Still not working.

Suggestions?

Bob, I've read dozens of our posts so I know you're an AI+++ expert. I had the code as you have written it. Press ALT Send>fp Release ALT tried Waits from 0.05 to 5 seconds--no difference BUT please also note that this is a wierd situation where the RECORDED macro does NOT record the p (I made it up...

Strange: I am trying to get a plotting program called Origin to print from a MS script. Pressing ALT fp is recorded as: Press ALT Wait>0.25 Send>f Wait>0.06 Release ALT Wait>0.41 Press ALT WaitWindowOpen>Print MoveWindow>Print,213,288 ResizeWindow>Print,438,386 Wait>0.09 Release ALT NO P after the F...