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Hey all :D

Im very close to finishing my two week task :P

just when I ctrl + f and search for something

Any ideas, how can I get the mouse to move where that highlighted text it?

:D Almost finished :D

included is some code though it may not be necessary

  • I want to search for highlighted text say "Rice" click drag a certain distance.
  • then search for "Vegetables" GOTO where vegetables is highlighted then click and drag a certain distance.
MouseGetPos()
                MouseClickDrag ( "LEFT", MouseGetPos(0), MouseGetPos(1), MouseGetPos(0) + $xdist , MouseGetPos(1) + $ydist)
                Send("{CTRLDOWN}c{CTRLUP}")
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Want do you really want to achieve? Maybe there is an easier way to do that. Example: Scan the html ...

If you explain a little more, then you 'll get a good answer. I'm sure.

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Maybe show what you have, because your problem seems generic with little description. Where are you searching? Is a question that comes to mind. Explorer? Chrome? Firefox?

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Wasting two weeks on trying to automate some stupid game? Who would do that? muttley

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olo,

Why on earth do you want to to drag a highlighted word a certain distance? :huh:

I would really like to see a screenshot of the app you are trying to automate with an reasonable explanation of what you are trying to do. In fact I would be so disappointed if there was not a good reason that I could well feel it necessary to lock the thread. ;)

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ArrayMultiColSort ---- Sort arrays on multiple columns
ChooseFileFolder ---- Single and multiple selections from specified path treeview listing
Date_Time_Convert -- Easily convert date/time formats, including the language used
ExtMsgBox --------- A highly customisable replacement for MsgBox
GUIExtender -------- Extend and retract multiple sections within a GUI
GUIFrame ---------- Subdivide GUIs into many adjustable frames
GUIListViewEx ------- Insert, delete, move, drag, sort, edit and colour ListView items
GUITreeViewEx ------ Check/clear parent and child checkboxes in a TreeView
Marquee ----------- Scrolling tickertape GUIs
NoFocusLines ------- Remove the dotted focus lines from buttons, sliders, radios and checkboxes
Notify ------------- Small notifications on the edge of the display
Scrollbars ----------Automatically sized scrollbars with a single command
StringSize ---------- Automatically size controls to fit text
Toast -------------- Small GUIs which pop out of the notification area

 

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olo,

Why on earth do you want to to drag a highlighted word a certain distance? :huh:

I would really like to see a screenshot of the app you are trying to automate with an reasonable explanation of what you are trying to do. In fact I would be so disappointed if there was not a good reason that I could well feel it necessary to lock the thread. ;)

M23

Im trying to navigate to a row of data. It starts with +7V now if I ctrl + f and enter +7V I see it(obviously).

Here I want the mouse to move to that piece of highlighted text and then click,copy and drag to get the data in the row.

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olo,

Telling me that you are looking for rows of data including "Rice", "Vegetables", and "+7V" does not really answer my question as to why you need to find and then drag these items. I asked for a screenshot - are you going to provide one? :huh:

M23

Public_Domain.png.2d871819fcb9957cf44f4514551a2935.png Any of my own code posted anywhere on the forum is available for use by others without any restriction of any kind

Open spoiler to see my UDFs:

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ArrayMultiColSort ---- Sort arrays on multiple columns
ChooseFileFolder ---- Single and multiple selections from specified path treeview listing
Date_Time_Convert -- Easily convert date/time formats, including the language used
ExtMsgBox --------- A highly customisable replacement for MsgBox
GUIExtender -------- Extend and retract multiple sections within a GUI
GUIFrame ---------- Subdivide GUIs into many adjustable frames
GUIListViewEx ------- Insert, delete, move, drag, sort, edit and colour ListView items
GUITreeViewEx ------ Check/clear parent and child checkboxes in a TreeView
Marquee ----------- Scrolling tickertape GUIs
NoFocusLines ------- Remove the dotted focus lines from buttons, sliders, radios and checkboxes
Notify ------------- Small notifications on the edge of the display
Scrollbars ----------Automatically sized scrollbars with a single command
StringSize ---------- Automatically size controls to fit text
Toast -------------- Small GUIs which pop out of the notification area

 

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olo,

Telling me that you are looking for rows of data including "Rice", "Vegetables", and "+7V" does not really answer my question as to why you need to find and then drag these items. I asked for a screenshot - are you going to provide one? :huh:

M23

here is the table of data.

I need to extract the data from power consumption.

So start at +5V highlight, click, copy drag up to mA.

Do this for the other rows.

Extract to csv file.

Run for multiple pdf's

Does that clear it up?

Doc1.docx

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olo,

Thank you - why did you not explain earlier that you were dealing with some form of electrical item listing in a PDF file instead of giving all that guff about "Rice" and "Vegetable" text? As you saw, all that did was make us very confused about what you were asking. :huh:

I think AutoIt will have trouble automating a PDF file in the manner you require. I would suggest that you use an external tool (why not run it from within an Autoit script ;)) to extract the text from the PDF into a plaintext format that AutoIt can more easily handle and then use AutoIt to locate the required data within that. A quick search of the forum suggests that xpdf is a good place to start. :)

Good luck and you know where we are if you run into problems. ;)

M23

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Open spoiler to see my UDFs:

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ArrayMultiColSort ---- Sort arrays on multiple columns
ChooseFileFolder ---- Single and multiple selections from specified path treeview listing
Date_Time_Convert -- Easily convert date/time formats, including the language used
ExtMsgBox --------- A highly customisable replacement for MsgBox
GUIExtender -------- Extend and retract multiple sections within a GUI
GUIFrame ---------- Subdivide GUIs into many adjustable frames
GUIListViewEx ------- Insert, delete, move, drag, sort, edit and colour ListView items
GUITreeViewEx ------ Check/clear parent and child checkboxes in a TreeView
Marquee ----------- Scrolling tickertape GUIs
NoFocusLines ------- Remove the dotted focus lines from buttons, sliders, radios and checkboxes
Notify ------------- Small notifications on the edge of the display
Scrollbars ----------Automatically sized scrollbars with a single command
StringSize ---------- Automatically size controls to fit text
Toast -------------- Small GUIs which pop out of the notification area

 

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olo,

Thank you - why did you not explain earlier that you were dealing with some form of electrical item listing in a PDF file instead of giving all that guff about "Rice" and "Vegetable" text? As you saw, all that did was make us very confused about what you were asking. :huh:

I think AutoIt will have trouble automating a PDF file in the manner you require. I would suggest that you use an external tool (why not run it from within an Autoit script ;)) to extract the text from the PDF into a plaintext format that AutoIt can more easily handle and then use AutoIt to locate the required data within that. A quick search of the forum suggests that xpdf is a good place to start. :)

Good luck and you know where we are if you run into problems. ;)

M23

Thanks M23

Just my boss requires I do it in autoit and im very close. Just this mouse goto highlighted text issue would solve the task :D

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olo,

Is your boss not open to persuasion that there are better ways to do things? :huh:

By all means show him my suggestion and see if that sways him. ;)

If not, then I can only suggest that you search the PDF GUI for the colour of the "found" text. Does your PDF reader allow you to select a suitably unique colour for the "found" highlight"? :huh:

M23

Public_Domain.png.2d871819fcb9957cf44f4514551a2935.png Any of my own code posted anywhere on the forum is available for use by others without any restriction of any kind

Open spoiler to see my UDFs:

Spoiler

ArrayMultiColSort ---- Sort arrays on multiple columns
ChooseFileFolder ---- Single and multiple selections from specified path treeview listing
Date_Time_Convert -- Easily convert date/time formats, including the language used
ExtMsgBox --------- A highly customisable replacement for MsgBox
GUIExtender -------- Extend and retract multiple sections within a GUI
GUIFrame ---------- Subdivide GUIs into many adjustable frames
GUIListViewEx ------- Insert, delete, move, drag, sort, edit and colour ListView items
GUITreeViewEx ------ Check/clear parent and child checkboxes in a TreeView
Marquee ----------- Scrolling tickertape GUIs
NoFocusLines ------- Remove the dotted focus lines from buttons, sliders, radios and checkboxes
Notify ------------- Small notifications on the edge of the display
Scrollbars ----------Automatically sized scrollbars with a single command
StringSize ---------- Automatically size controls to fit text
Toast -------------- Small GUIs which pop out of the notification area

 

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