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[planetthoughtful]

Hi All,

I have an autohotkey script that saves the current page in firefox, adds a date/time stamp to the filename when the 'save as' dialog box opens up and then prompts me whether or not i'd like to close the page.

The problem is that approx 50% of the time, the 'Save As' box hasn't fully loaded when autohotkey decides that the window has been activated. This means that even though autohotkey then sends the timestamp string, the 'Save As' dialog isn't ready to receive it, so when the script then goes on to prompt me if I want to close the page, the 'Save As' dialog box is still open, and the original filename (without the timestamp) still appears in the 'File name' field.

So, I'm wondering if there's a way to determine if a window or dialog has fully loaded, rather than just waiting for the window to be activated?

Just to explain my current method:

1. Load page in firefox
2. Press ^m, which performs Ctrl-S
3. WinWaitActive until the 'Save As' dialog box appears
4. Send timestamp to end of filename in 'File name' field
5. Send {Enter} to actually save the file (this also closes the 'Save As' dialog)
6. Prompt with "Close current page?" (Yes / No)

The issue is turning up between steps 3 and 4, in that it appears the 'Save As' dialog is reporting that it has been activated, but because it hasn't fully loaded, it doesn't receive any of the keystrokes in steps 4 and 5, and just goes straight on to step 6.

Can anyone help me work out how to make this script behave more gracefully?

Many thanks,

pt

[Guest]

What about download the page with urldownloadtofile?

[DerRaphael]

@guest - this 'll only work unless the urldownloadtofile site has no depending external files such as images, stylesheets, javascript or flash

downloading a homepage and saving it on harddisk, can be done either from curl or with wget

i personally prefer the later - its quite simple to use and abled to mirror entire sites if wished

since it is a simple commandline utility, its also easy top script. but so is cURL

back to the orgigin question:

a workaround might be to loop and check for a particular Control such as Edit1 from firefox' save dialog.

release the loop only if the control is available - this 'd make sure that your sent keys get into proper field.

[svi]

[planetthoughtful]

Hi All,

I think there may be some information above for me to go on, but I just want to make it clear that I'm not trying to determine when the page has finished loading in firefox. I know that's a completely different problem.

My problem is happening AFTER the page has finished downloading. At that point I press ^m to execute the autohotkey script, and it's the 'Save Page As' dialog box that I'm having problems detecting when it has finished loading, and is therefore ready to take the keystrokes I am sending to add the timestamp to the end of the filename.

Thanks for all the help so far!

All the best,

pt

[[VxE]]

I did a little 15-second investigation and it does indeed take a little time for firefox to pop up its 'save as' dialogue. Here's a method which checks for the appearance of the box itself on the screen

[DerRaphael]

this is some full blown solution to check for save dialogue and make sure the editfield which contains filename is accessible

it takes the given filename adds some kinky timestamp to it and saves the page from firefox