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by billbell52
Sun Apr 08, 2012 5:10 pm
Forum: General Support & Discussions
Topic: Force iMacros Browser to Open in Fullscreen
Replies: 2
Views: 2281

Re: Force iMacros Browser to Open in Fullscreen

I finally got Sendkeys to work so I'll use that method. If you know how to do it with iMacros please provide it just in case.
by billbell52
Sun Apr 08, 2012 2:19 pm
Forum: General Support & Discussions
Topic: Force iMacros Browser to Open in Fullscreen
Replies: 2
Views: 2281

Force iMacros Browser to Open in Fullscreen

I have automated a process to screen capture some lectures. I need to force iMacros browser to open in fullscreen mode so I know what part of the screen to capture. In other cases I don't want it in full screen mode. I am using C# and the latest version of iMacros (v8.0) on Windows 7. I tried to use...
by billbell52
Fri Mar 09, 2012 1:05 pm
Forum: General Support & Discussions
Topic: Should I buy iMacro? I have questions
Replies: 1
Views: 2008

Re: Should I buy iMacro? I have questions

I have used it for a few years and it has been invaluable. The one thing you don't mention is your intended purpose for iMacros. If all you intend to do is automate some login sequence you can use the free addin for IE, Chrome or FF. With FF you have javascript scripting ability. You can do amazing ...
by billbell52
Thu Mar 08, 2012 8:41 pm
Forum: General Support & Discussions
Topic: Working With ASPX Pages
Replies: 1
Views: 1678

Re: Working With ASPX Pages

Shortly after posting a simple solution came to me. I extracted the entire webpage and applied a simple regex to extract the random values. Works great.
by billbell52
Thu Mar 08, 2012 7:14 pm
Forum: General Support & Discussions
Topic: Working With ASPX Pages
Replies: 1
Views: 1678

Working With ASPX Pages

Using IE and IMacros Enterprise v8 on Win7. I am trying to get click an item on an aspx page (intranet). The aspx page has a tree navigation control in the left frame. There are 4 folders in the tree. The problem is the value of each tree folder is random. So this works one time: TAG POS=1 TYPE=SPAN...
by billbell52
Mon Nov 29, 2010 6:06 pm
Forum: General Support & Discussions
Topic: [POLL] Should IMacros Include Simple Conditional Statements?
Replies: 8
Views: 7306

Re: [POLL] Should IMacros Include Simple Conditional Stateme

I disagree. Keep iMacros simple. If you put in conditional statements it becomes yet another programming language. There are already too many. There is never simple conditionals. You need everything to make it useful. In addition to that I would still need to use a programming language in my iMacros...
by billbell52
Thu Nov 11, 2010 1:50 am
Forum: General Support & Discussions
Topic: Turn Off Click Sound in IMacros Browser
Replies: 1
Views: 1811

Turn Off Click Sound in IMacros Browser

When I run a macro in the iMacros browser I hear a click sound. How do I turn it off?
by billbell52
Wed Sep 15, 2010 6:45 pm
Forum: Data Extraction and Web Screen Scraping
Topic: How to click an image using random X and Y from image found?
Replies: 1
Views: 2009

Re: How to click an image using random X and Y from image fo

Use a scripting language. Use IMAGESEARCH to get x,y. Use a random number generator to make the click x,y. Use a DS command to click the image. Most, if not all scripting languages support random number generation.
by billbell52
Tue Sep 14, 2010 6:49 pm
Forum: Data Extraction and Web Screen Scraping
Topic: Extracting PDF pages
Replies: 13
Views: 8825

Re: Extracting PDF pages

I think you can do that with ghostscript. You may need to convert each page to postscript and then to pdf. If not, there is another free tool called PDF Creator that has command line capability and can take .png and do pdf. Try the forum http://sourceforge.net/projects/ghostscript/forums/forum/5451
by billbell52
Tue Sep 14, 2010 4:52 pm
Forum: Data Extraction and Web Screen Scraping
Topic: Extracting PDF pages
Replies: 13
Views: 8825

Re: Extracting PDF pages

If you just want to extract the pages as .png/.gif/.jpg use ghostscript. It is a free command line tool. Use iMacros to save the pdf file(s). You can do this with iMacros scripting.
by billbell52
Fri Sep 10, 2010 4:18 pm
Forum: Data Extraction and Web Screen Scraping
Topic: Extract data from Facebook Graph API
Replies: 9
Views: 9045

Re: Extract data from Facebook Graph API

If you want fan_count use

fan_count":\s(\d*)

$1 is the count
by billbell52
Thu Sep 09, 2010 8:32 pm
Forum: General Support & Discussions
Topic: Automation for windows ?
Replies: 4
Views: 3191

Re: Automation for windows ?

Sorry for the absence. Been working a few projects over the summer.
by billbell52
Thu Sep 09, 2010 1:46 am
Forum: General Support & Discussions
Topic: Automation for windows ?
Replies: 4
Views: 3191

Re: Automation for windows ?

You can look at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_GUI_testing_tools I generally use Windows API calls like SetCursorPos, GetCursorPos, mouse_event, keybd_event. You call from VB, C#. I am usually only doing 10 or so different tasks so coding is easier. I have taken screenshots and used iMacros s...
by billbell52
Wed Jul 14, 2010 3:36 pm
Forum: Data Extraction and Web Screen Scraping
Topic: Scraping tables into a spreadsheet for statistical analysis
Replies: 1
Views: 1536

Re: Scraping tables into a spreadsheet for statistical analy

You may want to consider using Excel and Excel VBA. You can scrape the data into Excel and use the Excel stats package to perform the analysis. If the data gets too big consider saving it to an Access db. Here is an example:

http://wiki.imacros.net/Excel-VBA-StockSearch
by billbell52
Fri Jul 09, 2010 4:04 pm
Forum: General Support & Discussions
Topic: iMacro Stops running when I dont touch the computer.
Replies: 4
Views: 3380

Re: iMacro Stops running when I dont touch the computer.

I don't have this problem but I don't deal with Flash either. I am thinking the Flash app is swallowing a DS command and hangs. The only idea I have is to make each DS command in a separate macro and issue a Play command for each. This way you may be able to isolate the DS command causing a problem ...