ObjCreate with Firefox in AutoIt

Standardization in Lab Automation (1,402 words) exact match in snippet view article find links to article really necessary. This alternative is the use of scripting languages, like AutoIt, to control the software that control the instruments. Q #1: Is it possible to send keystrokes to invisible windows with AutoIt? - A #1: No - Q #2: Is their anyway to have AutoIt hold a mouse click down (for a second or so)? The reason I ask is some Applications (Adobe Acrobat in this case) have 'flyout menus' that are activated by holding the mouse. How do I check if a specific windoww appears in Autoit. At the moment I am running with Auto it Adobe After Effect, so far so good. The problem is that a warning message pops up if the user does not have quick time installed. Now I want to check if that window appears and is active and then close it. So far I have this but did not work. Close adobe acrobat XI. Go to Windows Task Manager. Find Adobe Acrobat Update Service in 'Backgroup processes' section and END TASK. Close task manager and run the update without any issues.

object,firefox,autoit

First you need to download Mozilla ActiveX control. Example usage code: #include <GUIConstants.au3> $oFF = ObjCreate('Mozilla.Browser.1') ; Create a simple GUI for our output GUICreate ( 'FF Embedded Web control Test', 640, 580,(@DesktopWidth-640)/2, (@DesktopHeight-580)/2 , $WS_OVERLAPPEDWINDOW + $WS_VISIBLE + $WS_CLIPSIBLINGS) $GUIActiveX = GUICtrlCreateObj ( $oFF, 10, 40 , 600 ,..

autoit: Detecting window screen resolution in an If statement

If you are looking for the desktop resolution then there are macros for that purpose: @DesktopWidth and @DesktopHeight. However, your code is not working because of a syntax error. Look again at what you are doing with the If test - the & operator is for string concatenation! You were..

Selenium webdriver - unable to upload file with AutoIT

java,selenium,file-upload,selenium-webdriver,autoit

Autoit Close Adobe Readerprimofasr Software

The type of the input control is file and therefore, using the below line to upload a file should work. WebElement e = driver.findElement(By.id('the id')); e.sendKeys('file path'); ..

Converting 8 digit hexadecimal number to decimal

numbers,hex,decimal,autoit,definition

As per AutoIt documentation - Language Reference - Datatypes: In AutoIt there is only one datatype called a Variant. A variant can contain numeric or string data and decides how to use the data depending on the situation it is being used in. Issuing ConsoleWrite(0x00200000 & @LF) demonstrates stated behavior..

I want my script to give popup automatically after 3 hours? how can do it?

Here you go. It will notify you every 3 hours. #include <Date.au3> Global $ini = 'ini.ini' If _AlreadyRunToday() Then MsgBox (0, 'Total hours', _Format(_Diff())) Else __SetTime() EndIf __SetDate() While True Sleep(3 * 60 * 60 * 1000) ; Sleep for 3 hours MsgBox (0, 'Total hours', _Format(_Diff()), 60) WEnd Func..

Close windows in reverse order of creation

You can try to get it by the process. The function below will return the z-order of the windows, as far as I know, without you tracking the 'creation time' of the windows themselves from within your own code, you won't get a solution that can do that. #include <WinAPIProc.au3>..

AutoIt - Compiler warning when using Global variable in a function

variables,error-handling,compiler-warnings,autoit

Firstly, this warning is reported by Au3Check.exe, a program that is separate from the AutoIt compiler itself. You'll find that your program will still compile/run after this warning is printed. One possible solution is to just ignore it, or not run Au3Check on your code (not recommended). Your code will..

Building an automated script to copy a page of text, translate it in Google Translator and paste it in Word

powershell,ms-word,document,autoit,adobe-reader

As an AutoIt user I would say AutoIt. Copying text out of PDFs is not quite as simple as you might imagine. Mileage will vary on how the PDF was created, and there are several methods you can use: Most PDFs will have most of the text in the file..

Remove the 11. value of string if exists

regex,string,autoit

Solved: $line = StringSplit($tmp_line, ',') $count_values = Ubound($line) If $count_values = 14 Then $new_line = $line[1] & ',' & $line[2] & ',' & $line[3] & ',' & $line[4] & ',' & $line[5] & ',' & $line[6] & ',' & $line[7] & ',' & $line[8] & ',' & $line[9] & ','..

AutoIt GUICtrlRead Specials characters

From the help file: Send() Sends simulated keystrokes to the active window. Send ( 'keys' [, flag] ) Parameters keys - The sequence of keys to send. flag [optional] - Changes how 'keys' is processed: flag = 0 (default), Text contains special characters like + and ! to indicate SHIFT..

How to change system localization through AutoIt?

winapi,autoit

Just use RegWrite('HKEY_CURRENT_USERControl PanelInternational', 'sThousand', 'REG_SZ', '.') to change this setting directly. You can find a good explanation for these values at windowsitpro. Maybe you want to change 'sDecimal' as well?

Is there a way to use PrintWindow with a control? (using AutoIt)

winapi,control,gdi+,autoit,screen-capture

I have this little piece of script but when I use PrintWindow it's only returning a black capture: First of all, I do not know the language you use, but your code and question is clear enough for me to try to offer the solution. Right off the bat,..

Can I make _Assert write to console instead of a message box?

scripting,automated-tests,autoit

Desired behavior can not be achieved using _Assert. However, _Assert can be adjusted to do so (replaced MsgBox by ConsoleWrite): Func _AssertCustom($sCondition, $bExit = True, $nCode = 0x7FFFFFFF, $sLine = @ScriptLineNumber, Const $iCurERR = @error, Const $iCurEXT = @extended) Local $bCondition = Execute($sCondition) If Not $bCondition Then ConsoleWrite('Assertion Failed (Line..

How to empty the description of a file while compiling with AutoItWrapper

autoit,details,scite,field-description

Looking at the AutoIt3Wrapper source code, which is provided in the installation, the following line (line 2326 in my installation) reads: If $INP_Description = ' Then $INP_Description = FileGetVersion($AutoItBin, 'FileDescription') I believe that to be the source of the Aut2Exe description. How to force the description to be blank is..

2D grid image values to 2D array

arrays,image,image-processing,grid,autoit

looks like you have the view with fixed angles create function that converts screen position to grid position and back it should be easy just 2x linear interpolation if the camera pan is not with cell based step then you need the corner point of grid lines and use..

Want AutoIt3 HotKeySet to Emulate AutoHotKey Application Filtering

autohotkey,autoit

In case the GUI you are trying to control is your own GUI: If you want hotkeys that are not system wide, you should use GUISetAccelerators ( accelerators [, winhandle] ) GUISetAccelerators Sets the accelerator table to be used in a GUI window. Parameters accelerators A 2 dimensional array holding..

RegEx stops working when adding too many characters

regex,string,autoit

For everyone too lazy to take a look at the comments: this is the solution l'L'l came up with, with some tweaking by me: (?:BEGIN:VEVENT)[n(.+?)[.(?:END:VEVENT)..

Autoit replace string in multiple text files

windows,string,file,text,autoit

FileFindFirstFile supports wildcards. Note that the function returns a file handle which could then be used in your FileOpen call.

How can I bring a process window to the front using AutoIt3?

c#,.net,winforms,autoit

EDITED: If process is running, bring it to front maximized and perform mouse click. If process is not running, run process and cache it's id, get process by that id, bring it to front and wait for 10 seconds before performing mouse click. I tried this out and is working..

New to autoit, what is wrong with this variable?

mysql,autoit

There are a number of logic issues with the code, that makes it a little tricky to follow. The error in this case is almost certainly caused because 'id.txt' exists, and so $iFileExists evaluates to true, and the global variable is never created. Then you