Pretending menu

[Guest yoshi]

Hi,

As mentioned in help file, WinMenuSelectItem fails on toolbars "Pretending" menu.

Unfortunately my application which I need to automate has this kind of menu.

Click the menu text of a tab shows a submenu if exists.

The application is so-called client server type and the response from the server

varies depending on the time executed. So sleep function sometimes fails to catch the submenu.

What do I do to make MouseClick command to wait until submenu appears ?

Thanks,

[pekster]

What do I do to make MouseClick command to wait until submenu appears ?

How about taking a region around the menu before you click, doing a PixelChecksum, and the waiting until the PixelChecksum for that same reagon changes (which means something has changed on the screen in that region.) Then continue with your script.

[CyberSlug]

You might try good-old Send.

Inefficient example to select home page in an open instance of Internet Explorer.

Opt("WinTitleMatchMode", 2)
WinActivate("Internet Explorer")
Send("!voh");Alt+V, O, H

[Guest yoshi]

pekster,

Great idea ! It worked.

I can't be too thankful for your advice.

Cheers,

yoshi,

[Reznor]

How about taking a region around the menu before you click, doing a PixelChecksum, and the waiting until the PixelChecksum for that same reagon changes (which means something has changed on the screen in that region.)  Then continue with your script.

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

That i have figured out, but my problem is the change may not occour..

If it dose not occour I need to run a particular function over and over until the pixel field dose change, then continue with script..

(i dont like making new threads for whats hopefully a small question )

Edited November 13, 2004 by Reznor

[Wolvereness]

try declaring

$x = TimerInit()

before you loop then set

If TimerDiff($x) = ~ Then ExitLoop

Edited November 13, 2004 by Wolvereness

[Reznor]

Thanks that works out whenever i will need it in the future

err

how about exit loop when pixelchecksum is true (pixel changed) ?

Is there a good place to find begginers examples like this?

I think after this i am done with the script because it is effective enough.

this is one of the misc things I have tried. I get functions to work but when I run this script the function dosnt run..

$checksum = PixelChecksum(580, 320, 585, 330);1
while $checksum = PixelChecksum(580, 320, 585, 330)
$1 = tfunc1()
do
$i = $i + 1
until $checksum = PixelChecksum(580, 320, 585, 330)
wend

Func TFunc1() 
send ("vitnomus{tab}")
sleep (10000)
endfunc

Actualy, i tried a lot to figure this out but its not coming together. Maybe I'll make a tutorial scripit for pixelchecksum and related script if i learn this.

Edited November 14, 2004 by Reznor