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Thank you both. Dan 555 - you have hit the nail on the head thank you very much. It is indeed connected with focus so, in that knowledge, I can now find a solution or, at worst, change the default beep to silent. Werty - I learned something thank you. Having read the help, I think I have to avoid the suggested EventMode route because I need the app to loop in order to trigger timer based events but thank you nevertheless.

Hi I have developed a GUI that allows me to navigate through small icon-like images on the screen using arrow keys. The "current" selected image is indicated by a transparent square graphic that I move according to the arrows pressed and is used to "frame" the image. It behaves as I expect but... on some moves of the square graphic a sound is emitted suggesting an error, notification or some other windows event but it's clearly being caused by my app. Under what circumstances is such a sound emitted please and how can I avoid it? I have a loop that executes when any arrow key is pressed to prevent it triggering multiple unintended moves and I have a feeling it has something to do with that - perhaps the app is being deemed to be "busy" in some context. Any help that can be offered would be greatly appreciated.

Brilliant! Both problems (help and read message) problems resolved thank you so much. Swapping out the API functions did the trick. And I don't feel quite the idiot I thought I was so a triple win.

Hi MattyD Your UDF is getting me places, thank you once again for putting in your considerable effort and making the results available to novices like myself! So far I can do anything I want with sending midi messages to GR6 which is great and I now one to go a step further and receive data from a midi foot controller that I also use successfully with my GR6 Windows app. I've used a midi monitor app (MidiView) and GR6 to verify that my laptop is receiving midi messages from the foot pedals OK but I am failing miserably to read the messages in AutoIt using _midi_ReadMsg. To rub salt in I can't find any help on your library. F1 does nothing in SciTE and when I open the help file from explorer I see only contents (no text in the right pane). I'm probably making a beginner's mistake but I can't figure it out what the problem is. If it helps, this is my code: Func FnuMidiReceive($sDesc, $iValue) Local $sErrMsg = "", $aMIDIDevs[10], $iLoopCnt=0 If $iMidiInDev = -1 Then ;Initialise _midiAPI_Startup() Local $aMidiIn = _midi_EnumInputs() MsgBox(0,"","Ubound = " & UBound($aMidiIn)) For $iIdx = 0 to UBound($aMidiIn) - 1 If $aMidiIn[$iIdx] = "USB Midi Cable" Then FnuDebug("Device " & $iIdx & "(" & $aMidiIn[$iIdx] & ") is available for input") $iMidiInDev = _midiAPI_InOpen($iIdx) If @Error <> 0 Then FnuDebug("Midi open error: " & @error) ExitLoop EndIf Next EndIf Local $aMidiMsg[99] While 1=1 $aMidiMsg = _midi_ReadMsg($iMidiInDev,$MFMT_DECODED_ARR) If @error = 0 Then FnuDebug("Midi message received") Sleep(5000) Else FnuDebug("Waiting for Midi message (" & @error & ")") Sleep(500) EndIf Wend EndFunc I was hoping to see "Midi message received" every time I press a pedal (and blue light on cable flashes to indicate midi message sent) but all I get is "Waiting for Midi message (1)" every half second (@error=1). Could I be missing important initialisation steps or perhaps my loop is not how it should be done? Any guidance you could offer would be greatly appreciated, thanks.

Actually I think my problems are now resolved. Thank you once again.

Thank you very much. That's taken me quite a few steps forward and it successfully registers throughput from messages sent using your routines. The GR6 software also recognises the device I "created" using loopMidi so I connected GR6 to that device to receive its incoming messages. My only problem now is that GR6 does not appear to be receiving the messages. If loopMidi is receiving them do I have to create a second device in LoopMidi and somehow redirect the incoming message to that device, then connect GR6 to the second device? I could, of course, just be doing something dumb! 🙂

Hi MattyD Firstly, thanks for your efforts in the Midi arena, they are very welcome. I am interested in using AutoIt to send Midi messages to an app on the same machine. That app is "Guitar Rig 6" (GR6) - which simulates guitar amplifiers and effects. So, for example, I currently use a Behriinger pedal board that sends midi signals via a USB port to Gr6 but I'dlike to be able to do so using AutoIt if possible. In order for GR6 to process midi signals from the pedal board, I need to change its settings to assign the pedal board as it's input device from a drop down menu of available connected devices. Is there a way, using your UDF, that I could somehow make GR6 aware of an AutoIT script genereated "device" such that it would appear in the dropdown list of connected devices and therefore allow me to send midi messages to it? Many thanks

I do now have it working for scenarios a) and b). Thanks again.

Thank you. That is helpful (and encouraging). I do use FileWriteLog quite a lot but, yes (and thank you), I'll need to use it more to verify that all is well. At least I now know it's worth taking further. If I remember I will come back and report outcome.

Hello As I understand it, any jobs scheduled with Task Scheduler cannot interact with any terminal/screen as such (whether visible or not). Therefore I realise that any AutoIt logic that moves the cursor, clicks etc will be ineffective. However I'm interested in knowing what I can and cannot do in an AutoIt script in a Task Scheduler context. The logic I have will, ideally, run overnight and gather information from specific web sites. To achieve this, it will: a) For some sites it will use _INetGetSource to access the HTML of a web page directly. b) For some other sites it will use _IECreate to trigger an Internet Explorer browser (with visible flag set to 0) and then use both _IENavigate and the browser's .document.body.innerhtml property. c) In some other cases it will launch Google Chrome and interact with its "window" in order to navigate within the page and copy test into the copy/paste buffer from the page. I am assuming this will not be possible in a scheduled task. Are either or both of the approaches described in a) and b) likely to give me problems when running under the task scheduler? I'd experiment but I do find it incredibly difficult to debug anything executed by the Task Scheduler as so little info is available when it fails. Many thanks.

Ok, first of all, thank you once again all and to VIP in particular. I clearly have a lot to learn in this area. I made changes as follows: Using _GDIPlus_StartUp and _GDIPlus_Shutdown Using _GDIPlus_ImageSavetoFileEx with encoding instead of _GDIPlus_ImageSavetoFile Using _GSIPlus_ImageDispose after the scaled image is saved All now seems to be well and I'll know better next time.

Thank you both. I'll take a close look at your script VIP. Maybe it's the GdiPlus_Startup that's the problem, I haven't used that.

Hi I am having problems loading an image using _GDIPlus_ImageLoadFromFile. Each attempt fails at the "Load error" line of code which shows an error code of 1. The same error code is returned if the file does not exist yet these files do exist and I am supplying the full path of the file required within the local filesystem. Also, if I copy and paste the text of the file path from the debug statement in the code into a command prompt and hit enter, it will display the image in question. These are all jpg files created using INetGet. Where might I be going wrong please? Any help would be appreciated. My code is below.           If FileExists($aImgLst[$j]) Then               FnuDebug("jpg: " & $aImgLst[$j])             $hBitmap1 = _GDIPlus_ImageLoadFromFile($aImgLst[$j])             If @error<>0 then MsgBox(0,"", "Load error " & @error & ", handle=" & $hBitmap1)             $hBitMap2 = _GDIPlus_ImageScale($hBitMap1, $dScale, $dScale)             If @error<>0 then MsgBox(0,"", "Scale error " & @error)             If _GDIPlus_ImageSaveToFile($hBitMap2,$aImgLst[$j] & "Small") <> True Then               MsgBox(0,"", "Image error: " & @error & " (" & $hBitMap2 & ")")             EndIf           EndIf Thank you.

ok thank you. The helpfile (.chm) I am looking at still defintely says 30000. I copied and pasted the text. Perhaps it is an old help file but I only downloaded i a couple of months ago. I do now see tha the online info says the same as your quote. Thanks again. Thought I was losing my sanity. Answer: 5 minutes! Larger extract:

Hi I have been having problems with scripts apparently hanging for long periods when navigating between web pages and was considering adjusting the _IELoadWaitTimeout value. However, the documentation says: "The initial timeout value is 30000 ms (5 minutes)." But surely 30000ms is 30 x 1000ms = ie 30 seconds? Which is it please? Or am I missing something? Thanks