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[Carcophan]

I work in a corporate environment; I had to fight tooth and nail to even be allowed to have AHK installed on our Pc/Network. We have 14 people on my team, and I am the only one ‘in charge’ of the scripting as I am the only one smart enough to be able to tie my own shoes.

Sometimes things around here change, be it policy or rules or portal settings. Whenever a change is made, often the script needs coding updates. Currently the AHK program itself is installed on the 14 computers, and the actual custom script is in a folder on each machine. Everyone has customer screen resolutions or IE settings, the script interacts with an IE page pulling data and such. The script needs to be customized to each individual, the ‘mouse click’ coordinates [x/y] vary per person.

That said, every update means I need to make 14 individual script updates. I am looking for advice/input about what is the best way to go about updating everyone’s scripts. I cannot spend 2 hours fixing things every time there is a minor change.

I have some fileappend stuff that does low level reporting “WkOrd: %GuiWkOrd% | PRnotes: %GuiNotes%, S:\File\file\file\TEXT DATA\user_name.txt”, each person has a fileappend with their name.txt. Each person has customer x/y cords because of their screens.

I am just growing frustrated with the complexity that I’ve built into my own scripts and really just want some advice and feedback from someone who has been through something similar.

As always ,thanks all

[SoLong&Thx4AllTheFish]

Some thoughts:

- place the settings for all users in an INI, use A_UserName as section
- place the INI on the network so you only have to update one FILE
- same goes for the fileappend, use A_UserName as filename

Also A_ScreenWidth and A_ScreenHeight might be useful as is Coordmode
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[Carcophan]

Wow, very nice. I cant recall seeing 'a_username' so I never thought about that.

So in theory, I can have the user 'sign into' my script/gui, as opposed to just launching it to use it. When they sign in, the script goes into the ini, and says "hey you are user_1, so that means your X and Y are this, and your log file should be this"?

I found a few articles using the advanced search, as opposed to the regular search, I will see what I can poach to add it to mine.

[hd0202]

Hi Carcophan,

besides the solutions of the previous posts, store your application on a net drive and only a startup program, that should never change, on the 14 computers:

[Rhys]

My 2c: Simple Auto-Update and store the user settings in an INI as mentioned above...

If you decide to use it and need help implementing let me know in this thread..
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[SoLong&Thx4AllTheFish]

You may also want to look at Automation IE7 Navigation and Scripting with Tabs:
http://www.autohotkey.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=30599
That way you may be able to skip the click all together.
(But is is more complicated so YMMV)
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[Carcophan]

Thank you all for your input, I have a lot of research and testing to play around with.

I like the batchfile idea, but I think that is a little outside my knowledge level. I saw this on one of the threads, it looks easier than anything else to incorporate.

[SoLong&Thx4AllTheFish]

[ZirePhoenix]

Actually, the issue is not really storing the files, but the customization necessary on each of the machines that requires the different files.

When you are using the script to pull data from the webpage, how are you doing this? The cleanest experience I have, is to actually click on an unused area of the web page, Ctrl-A to highlight everything, and then Ctrl-C to put them into the Clipboard and use regular expressions to parse the text.

I haven't been able to figure out how to pull the HTML code right out of a browser yet...

[Carcophan]

@ Zire, that is pretty spot on, regarding my issue.

An example of how I pull my data:

[Carcophan]

So I have been looking into, and playing around with, the ini files. I read that INI files cannot be 'nested', and ini is for information and not if/else statments.

This is a variation of my original request about log ins, which I am confident will work out well.

[Rhys]

I'm not 100% sure I'm following you, but I think this will do what you want... Let me know if you have any questions and I will try to help...

settings.ini:

[camerb]

I have the same issue, I use Dropbox (www.getdropbox.com) and place the AHK in the public folder.

Then, locally, I have a script that autoruns on startup, downloads the AHK file, and then runs it. Note that this is really easy because Dropbox will give me a static address where I can access any file in the public folder--just right-click the file in the dropbox.

This is the simplest solution that I have found, and you could even set a timer so that it not only checks for updates on startup, but also checks routinely by setting up a time interval.

[Carcophan]

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