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Hannes, Tech Support
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by Hannes, Tech Support » Wed Feb 27, 2008 9:06 am
Especially when running subsequent macros via the scripting interface, you may find that ONDOWNLOAD seems to ignore its FOLDER or FILE parameters given in e.g.
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ONDOWNLOAD FOLDER=c:\myDir FILE=myfile
The reason often is that the download-dialog does not prevent the macro/script from continuing. So it can happen that
- 1) The macro stops before the download is initiated (e.g. if the website needs some time to start transferring the file)
2) A second macro is started before the download is initiated, which resets FOLDER and FILE to the default values
In both cases, adding a simple WAIT statement right after the command that initiates the download (e.g. a TAG command) will keep the macro from continuing/stopping before the download is handled correctly.
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doug
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by doug » Wed Dec 10, 2008 2:52 pm
I tryied two different approaches and both failed. What can be happened? It used to work fine in the previous edition
ONDOWNLOAD FOLDER=c:\myDir FILE=myfile WAIT=YES
ONDOWNLOAD FOLDER=c:\myDir FILE=myfile
WAIT SECONDS = 20
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Hannes, Tech Support
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by Hannes, Tech Support » Wed Dec 10, 2008 3:12 pm
Can you post a test macro that shows this behaviour?