auto refresh browser

[ipodfrik]

I am totally new to autoit, so please bare with me.

I want to auto refresh active firefox browser every few milliseconds (not seconds).

It would be in a loop, can be a set of loops or indefinitely.

Also, since it will be refreshed at fast rates, the script should not wait until page fully loads and ignore all browser errors.

How can I do that?

Thanks

Edited November 25, 2011 by ipodfrik

[Damein]

Here are a couple things you need to look into:

If...Else..EndIf statements: http://www.autoitscript.com/autoit3/docs/keywords/IfElseEndIf.htm

Use these to detect the second item, WinActive. http://www.autoitscript.com/autoit3/docs/functions/WinActive.htm

Do an If WinActive("Name Of FireFox Window") and then send a Refresh command.

Then check into loops: http://www.autoitscript.com/autoit3/docs/keywords/While.htm

AutoIt reads Sleep functions in milliseconds, so thats no problem. Sleep(1000) = 1 second, so Sleep(100) would be 100 milliseconds

If you need any further help feel free to ask

And welcome to the forums!

[ipodfrik]

Thank you,

I'm actually new to scripting,

And this is probably the easiest script to make, so I feel really dumb.

So, first I run Firefox, the load the website

While
Run("C:Program FilesMozilla Firefoxfirefox.exe")
$oIE = _IECreate ("www.website.com", 0)
Sleep(1000)
WEnd

Is this correct to reload a page with firefox in a loop?

[Damein]

Here's a little jump starter:

Use this function to grab the FireFox's title to do a WinActive command.

$title = WinGetTitle("NFL", "")
MsgBox(0, "Full title read was:", $title)

I have this window open, set the "NFL" to whatever your window starts with.

http://espn.go.com/nfl/

After you have that then here's a code that might not be 100% what you want but should get you started.

HotKeySet("!{x}", "_Exit") ; Sets a shortcut to kill the script quickly. ALT+X
Opt("WinTitleMatchMode", 3) ; This is to tell the script to only refresh the EXACT window, incase there are similar windows. Such as: Window 1, Window 2.
While 1 ; This begins a While LOOP
Sleep(5000) ; Tell the script to pause for 5 seconds
  $title = WinGetTitle("Google - Mozilla Firefox", "") ; Grabs the exactly title and saves it to a variable to do an If statement against.
If WinExists($title) Then ; Check to see if the desired window is running.
  WinActivate($title) ; If it is running, first activate the window.
  WinWaitActive($title) ; This tells the script to not send the refresh key (F5) until the window has appeared.
  Send("{F5}") ; This sends the F5 key to refresh the window.
Else ; This is an else statement to tell the script to do a different operation if the window is not running.
  Sleep(10) ; Just a filler item to wait until the desired window is running.
EndIf ; End the If statement to continue the script.
WEnd ; Close the While LOOP
Func _Exit() ; This is the function that is linked to the kill switch, ALT+X. It tells the script to perform the following actions.
Exit ; In this case it is to close the entire program.
EndFunc ; Close the function up.

Let me know if you don't understand anything

Edited November 25, 2011 by Damein

[Damein]

The code you posted will open a FireFox window every second, and unless you have a ton of CPU thats not good

As for the $oIE, do you have a GUI you are using? From the Run command, I assume not.

Also, are you wanting to re-open the FireFox window each time, or is a simple refresh okay?

Edited November 25, 2011 by Damein

[ipodfrik]

Damein,

Thank you so much!

The script you posted is exactly what I wanted.

Once I put in the window title, it just worked!

It would have probably taken me hours if not days to write it up myself, so I really appreciate the help.

God bless!

[Damein]

Alright, no problem.

Also, if you didn't grab the script I added comments to, you probably should.

I think I added enough detail to fully explain what the script is doing, in case you need to use parts of it in future scripts

Enjoy, and let us know if there's anything else you need!

Edited November 25, 2011 by Damein

[edena]

Hi!,

I kind of got interested in this but I really didn't test this code out because I'm not really sure how to go further in doing this.

And please correct my mistake here I was not really sure while writing this code:

#include <ButtonConstants.au3>
#include <GUIConstantsEx.au3>
#include <StaticConstants.au3>
#include <WindowsConstants.au3>
#include <IE.au3>
#Region ### START Koda GUI section ### Form=
$Form1 = GUICreate("Form1", 347, 113, 192, 124)
$Button1 = GUICtrlCreateButton("START Refresh Browser", 24, 72, 131, 25)
$Label1 = GUICtrlCreateLabel("Click START to refresh browser every 5 seconds", 32, 16, 234, 17)
$Button2 = GUICtrlCreateButton("Stop Refresh Browser", 176, 72, 115, 25)
$Label2 = GUICtrlCreateLabel("Click Stop to close window and stop refreshing the browser", 32, 40, 282, 17)
GUISetState(@SW_SHOW)
#EndRegion ### END Koda GUI section ###
While 1
$nMsg = GUIGetMsg()
Switch $nMsg
  Case $GUI_EVENT_CLOSE
   Exit
  Case $Button1
   Do
   $oIE = _IECreate ("[url="http://www.autoitscript.com"]www.autoitscript.com[/url]")
   Sleep 1000
   ContinueLoop
   Send("!F5") ;F5 key pressed to refresh browser
   Sleep 5000 ;After 5 seconds it refreshes browser again
   Until
  case $Button2
   ExitLoop
   Sleep 1000
   Exit
EndSwitch
WEnd

Thank You.