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Problem with scripts that require file browsers

mikebystedt

Does anyone know of a workaround that would allow a script or axlShell() commands to select and populate a
file browser if it pops up?  It seems that the file browser form isn't recgonized.  So therefore no data can be entered.

Specifically, after doing a File->Import and running, a summary report pops up with the details.  When I select "Save",
a browser window pops up, but during Replay, the window is never selected, the filename never entered, and I can't
save the file.

I'm sure that someone else has encountered this at some point.  Any suggestions?

Is there some sort of default FORM name that I could refer to that isn't being output to the script file during a Record session?

Thanks, -Mike 

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  • mikebystedt

    Thanks oldmouldy,

    But the problem I believe I'm looking at, is not so much that the "fillin value" needs to be dynamically tweaked,
    but that I can't actually get a handle to the browser window.  

    I'm actually attempting to record a script, then issuing the specific statements I want through
    axlShell() commands directly in a SKILL file.  I can't do a fillin whatsoever if I can't set the browser window to get
    ready to accept a value of any sort at all.  The method of sending out the commands, whether via a replay script
    or axlShell() calls, is just a programming decision.  However, neither method will work if I can't get a window handle
    for the "set window" command. Recording the script and reviewing, shows the "fillin" lines, but no window handle to set
    so that it can get the data loaded in correctly.

    So even the simplest of records and replays doesn't work if accessing the file browser is part of the equation.

    Is there some sort of standard handle for this sucker?  So that I can make the file browser the active window, and then
    do whatever I need to?  It's almost like the file browser window is completely invisible, although the commands thrown
    at it are still being recorded.

    Thanks,

    -Mike 

     

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  • mikebystedt

    Thanks oldmouldy,

    But the problem I believe I'm looking at, is not so much that the "fillin value" needs to be dynamically tweaked,
    but that I can't actually get a handle to the browser window.  

    I'm actually attempting to record a script, then issuing the specific statements I want through
    axlShell() commands directly in a SKILL file.  I can't do a fillin whatsoever if I can't set the browser window to get
    ready to accept a value of any sort at all.  The method of sending out the commands, whether via a replay script
    or axlShell() calls, is just a programming decision.  However, neither method will work if I can't get a window handle
    for the "set window" command. Recording the script and reviewing, shows the "fillin" lines, but no window handle to set
    so that it can get the data loaded in correctly.

    So even the simplest of records and replays doesn't work if accessing the file browser is part of the equation.

    Is there some sort of standard handle for this sucker?  So that I can make the file browser the active window, and then
    do whatever I need to?  It's almost like the file browser window is completely invisible, although the commands thrown
    at it are still being recorded.

    Thanks,

    -Mike 

     

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