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[Sean]

A very ambitious project, tank.

[tank]

[sinkfaze]

Not to get too sidetracked, but would you be in favor of adding support for the active window ("A") or for ahk_group windows in iWeb_getWin? I was beta testing a re-write of some of my work scripts using your functions exclusively and found myself having to work around those two areas. Not a big deal but it doesn't seem like it would be too bad to support.

Also, do you think it would be feasible to build the functionality of iWeb_domWin into iWeb_getWin or would that be unnecessary? I only mention that because for some of my beta test scripts I have to intersperse some COM_Invoke statements with the iWeb calls and the vast majority of them would not work with the pwb passed from iWeb_getWin. I had to pass it through iWeb_domWin first to get them to work, then release the pointer from iWeb_domWin before I could continue.

And didn't you say at one time there's a way to call to and retrieve a specific table element's contents?
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[tank]

[sinkfaze]

Would it be a worthwhile venture to create an iWeb_getTblObj function?

[tank]

[tank]

One more thing i think we need to target certain types of automation to record we cant just shoot for a catch all recorder it just simply will turn into a mess

things i see automation requests for and have used professionally
Loginscripts

parsing datasets(tables) to csv. Perhaps we present a gui and allow them to set column headers for a single sheet and put a function call for each datafeild and let the script just pull out each item with it as an automatic function. Users can take the script generated and add custome criteria with scite but the recorder will demonstrate the simple process

filling out forms from data in excell or csv. (special note we wont record the data being parsed from excel or csv but we can provide information on how to enter it with script)

downloading images from a page

ripping youtube vidios there are a few scripts that more or less do this now

word or phrase lookups with a right click user can configure froma a limited supply of search sites wiki google etc

what do you think isnt this enuff to start with can you think of common automateable taks that should be in this list instead?
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Basic Webpage Controls with JavaScript / COM - Tutorial by Jethrow

[sinkfaze]

I have uploaded a "script pad" GUI for testing purposes. Mostly I'm interested in making sure that the pad's functionality itself is solid. I think this could be a complimentary GUI to anchor to the recorder itself that will record the appropriate functions and give the user a place to test and even output their script. I've included brief explanations of the available options and a test script to try out. Have a look and see what you think.
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[tank]

I think i like where thats going perhaps a dropdown with the available windows would be better than a series of message boxes
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Basic Webpage Controls with JavaScript / COM - Tutorial by Jethrow

[jethrow]

I updated my link (3rd post) with a new version of iWebBrowser2 Learner. Some small changes:

• Utilizes window HWND instead of name for comparisons
• Checks (iWebBrowser2 object) window Title, HWND, and position each time. If any changed, element outline is removed.
• Previous list item will still execute while program is paused
• Program starts in Always-On-Top mode
• WinTitle shows "PAUSED" if program is paused

Also, I had thought about modifying the webpage element properties if you're hovering over them, rather than drawing GUI's. I thought perhaps change the background color, but this wouldn't be effective for images. I also thought about using the style.outline object, though I haven't had consistent results with this. Finally, I tried the elements style.border property, but this could be tricky to change and then change back. What are other people's thoughts? (also, I sometimes get a COM error when trying to access the style object)
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[sinkfaze]

Ugh...those COM errors that appear despite the script functioning as expected will be the death of me. I'm thinking of adding ;COM_Error(0) to the initialization output so the user can uncomment it if necessary and ignore those error messages (even though Sean understandably despises that).
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[tank]

Jethrow
Modifying the style is precarious at best all tags do not support borders

best to perhaps wrap the outerhtml in a div with a border and remove it when the mouse exits. even so i think the Gui's with some fine tuning will give us our best results

one thing

[sinkfaze]

[tank]

[jethrow]