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[armed23ogm]

Hello, I haven't used AutoHotkey in a while and was wondering how to do this:

I want to execute a script based on whether the "Google Search" button is pressed or if the "I'm Feeling Lucky" button is pressed on www.Google.com. I want to do this without using the image search command. (My real application is a little different, but if I figure out how to do this simple example, I will be able to expand on it)

Thanks for any help!

[tank]

there are 2 methods one involves parsing out the URL to see if you stay in the same domain. Based on your description tho this isnt what you need

The next option is much more complex and not for the feint of heart. I wont write you an example unless i get a comfirmation from you that you understand DOM very well events and either javascript or vbscript as my example will rely heavily on these principles andf im not inclined to teach you events or DOM
I will however show you how to capture an onclick event for a button using AHK

Please let me know for sure if this is worth myt effort or if your not readdy to learn something much more complicated
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[armed23ogm]

Thanks for the reply tank. Yeah this may be more complicated than I anticipated. My real application is to detect a button press in an offline program, so the parsing of the domain name would not be a viable option. I'll probably read up on using Javascript with AutoHotkey to make this work. Thanks again.

[jethrow]

I wanted to see if I could do this:

[tank]

is it active content such as a cd or something?
Using javascript via ahk is not any more straight forward than what i would propose and in fact may be a little more problematic
do you understand onclick events and DOM enuff to do this with javascript?
if so then this might be a road you want to persue

[tank]

jethrow good work ( you posted before i did ) but IMO
use

[armed23ogm]

It's a program where my Mom writes her notes for work. The program has a lot of repetitive tasks and I told my Mom I would try to help her automate some of the stuff. Right now I have all the automated tasks as hotkeys, but I thought I could improve it by detecting when buttons are pressed and executing certain lines of the script.

I will have to do some research on the scripting you guys posted, it is all foreign to me.

Thanks.

[tank]

Just to be clear
the code posted will ONLY work with a web page loaded in IE
Detecting a button in other programs is done totally differently and sometimes not at all

this also assumes that the application is not flash or java (java is different than JavaScript)
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[rasco22862]

Thanks! Just what i was looking for! But the script only works for once. I mean, the second time that I press the "Search" Button for example, "SomeCode" doesn´t trigger. I´m looking kind of a steady-state. Every time that the seach button is pressed, execute some code. How can i achieve this?

Thanks again!

[tank]

psink is destroyed with navigation upon a new load you would need to connect the object again
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[rasco22862]

Thanks again. I tried a lot, but i dont know how to control the flow of the script. What i want is that "somecode" executes every time an user clicks the button of a specific window(with a specific title of corse). This windows can be closed, opened and reloaded several times. Any suggestion?


Thanks!

[rasco22862]

Any help?

[jethrow]

How about something like this?

[rasco22862]

Thanks jethrow! I get an illegal character error message in line 9 in the "pwb.document" expression. What is this about?

Thanks again

[jethrow]

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