Thanks for sharing your troubleshooting process. I've learnt a few things from it. I was actually struggling with one application. Kept doing odd things and I can only attribute it to the application. Windows will do weird things, so automation has become a bit more harder then ever. Again, thanks f...

Thanks, I didn't know that either, lol.

Frank

Totally agree with Marcus on this one. I actually have four pc's dedicated to automation in various forms and formats. Whenever I've tried to combine things at the same time, it turns into a dog's dinner. I'd recommend picking up, if you haven't got a lot of capital, a couple of PC's two years old f...

I wanted to thank you again. Your insides have given me a new way to solve an ugly problem. Sometimes I find that I get fixed on the wrong solution. I was able to easily write a new routine that checks the progress bar about every 5 minutes and reports back if it gets stuck!

Thanks

Frank

JRL, you rock!

Thank you so much.

Frank

that's actually a great idea. I can now use math to compute the next pixel positions and watch for the color to change and if it doesn't in a smaller timeframe, then I know I've got issues.

Frank

Is there a way to monitor a particular process by it's name and get the amount of cpu usage that is occurring in percentage?

Thanks

Frank

In the particular program that I'm trying to monitor, I've tried just about everything (windows app - Easy Video Suite) and I cannot extract a numerical value from the percentage done indicator. It displays it but darned if I can find a way to extract it. If I could find a way without snapping 10 to...

I've got the strangest thing in the world going on here. Whenever I try to print my code in MS to my Canon inkjet, I get the following error: Another computer is using the printer. The following status is the usage status of that computer. --- Printer is online. I can print out of any other app with...

Thanks Marcus, I've discovered these wonderful commands and am using them in my script. Finally got things working nicely. One thing that I discovered was to allow enough time, especially when opening/closing windows for things to stabilize. I was amazed that I had to permit a good 3-5 sec lag even ...

Good day, I'd like to find ways to more intelligently control my scripts. Many times I cannot access a control easily with MS (more lack of knowledge then anything else, I'm sure), and I'd like to master MS better by learning how to better read the screen intelligently, especially when I cannot see ...

Is there a clean way to keep a dialog box open out of the way and allow it to provide status updates and to permit me to kill the script? I know I can hit ctrl+shift+s, but I'm thinking of distributing this as a .exe and like to mimic an app more.

Thanks,

Frank

Thanks Marcus,

Another quickie question, is there a way to open windows and place them in a particular spot and size them too?

Frank

Good day all, I've come across a real problem in automation. I'm using easy video suite and the windows application will only let you add new videos for compilation by clicking in a directory, and dragging it into it's interface. I can find the spot for the interface, but grabbing the file and dragg...

Marcus I wanted to add that the .ini handling is truly magic!! Fantastic feature in macro scheduler!!

Thanks!

Frank