Allochthonous Posted September 23, 2010 Posted September 23, 2010 I have a script that copies text (a web address) out of a window and then pastes it into the Run box to open a web page. I want to be able to compare the contents of the clipboard to the contents of the clipboard of the previous execution, to verify they are not the same before opening the address. I need some place to store the URL at the end of each execution where it will stay until the next run. Is this possible? PK
nitekram Posted September 23, 2010 Posted September 23, 2010 You can store it in a file and then read that file into a variable. Otherwise if the script does not close, you can save the URL in a temp variable to be used later for comparison. 2¢ All by me:"Sometimes you have to go back to where you started, to get to where you want to go." "Everybody catches up with everyone, eventually" "As you teach others, you are really teaching yourself." From my dad "Do not worry about yesterday, as the only thing that you can control is tomorrow." WIKI | Tabs; | Arrays; | Strings | Wiki Arrays | How to ask a Question | Forum Search | FAQ | Tutorials | Original FAQ | ONLINE HELP | UDF's Wiki | AutoIt PDF AutoIt Snippets | Multple Guis | Interrupting a running function | Another Send StringRegExp | StringRegExp Help | RegEXTester | REG TUTOR | Reg TUTOT 2 AutoItSetOption | Macros | AutoIt Snippets | Wrapper | Autoit Docs SCITE | SciteJump | BB | MyTopics | Programming | UDFs | AutoIt 123 | UDFs Form | UDF Learning to script | Tutorials | Documentation | IE.AU3 | Games? | FreeSoftware | Path_Online | Core Language Programming Tips Excel Changes ControlHover.UDF GDI_Plus Draw_On_Screen GDI Basics GDI_More_Basics GDI Rotate GDI Graph GDI CheckExistingItems GDI Trajectory Replace $ghGDIPDll with $__g_hGDIPDll DLL 101? Array via Object GDI Swimlane GDI Plus French 101 Site GDI Examples UEZ GDI Basic Clock GDI Detection Ternary operator
Allochthonous Posted September 23, 2010 Author Posted September 23, 2010 The script does close. That's why i can't save it in a temp variable. I would prefer to have this be self contained in one file. Is saving the path in a file my only option to get it to be there for the next execution? Is there no Windows variable that can be set? PK
4ggr35510n Posted September 23, 2010 Posted September 23, 2010 There's a windows temp folder for files like that. @TempDir IniRead IniWrite
Allochthonous Posted September 23, 2010 Author Posted September 23, 2010 Could I see some sample code of how this is used?
Danny35d Posted September 23, 2010 Posted September 23, 2010 I need some place to store the URL at the end of each execution where it will stay until the next run. I would prefer to have this be self contained in one file.Is this possible?PKYour script past a text into the Run box, then you can use RegRead() function. Your script can read this key 'HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\RunMRU' and look at the value of MRUList. The first letter of MRUList value is the regkey for the last command use by the Run box. AutoIt Scripts:NetPrinter - Network Printer UtilityRobocopyGUI - GUI interface for M$ robocopy command line
nitekram Posted September 23, 2010 Posted September 23, 2010 (edited) You can use a windows variable if you want, or the registry (but that is overkill) expandcollapse popupDisplays, sets, or removes cmd.exe environment variables. SET [variable=[string]] variable Specifies the environment-variable name. string Specifies a series of characters to assign to the variable. Type SET without parameters to display the current environment variables. If Command Extensions are enabled SET changes as follows: SET command invoked with just a variable name, no equal sign or value will display the value of all variables whose prefix matches the name given to the SET command. For example: SET P would display all variables that begin with the letter 'P' SET command will set the ERRORLEVEL to 1 if the variable name is not found in the current environment. SET command will not allow an equal sign to be part of the name of a variable. Two new switches have been added to the SET command: SET /A expression SET /P variable=[promptString] The /A switch specifies that the string to the right of the equal sign is a numerical expression that is evaluated. The expression evaluator is pretty simple and supports the following operations, in decreasing order of precedence: () - grouping ! ~ - - unary operators * / % - arithmetic operators + - - arithmetic operators << >> - logical shift & - bitwise and ^ - bitwise exclusive or | - bitwise or = *= /= %= += -= - assignment &= ^= |= <<= >>= , - expression separator If you use any of the logical or modulus operators, you will need to enclose the expression string in quotes. Any non-numeric strings in the expression are treated as environment variable names whose values are converted to numbers before using them. If an environment variable name is specified but is not defined in the current environment, then a value of zero is used. This allows you to do arithmetic with environment variable values without having to type all those % signs to get their values. If SET /A is executed from the command line outside of a command script, then it displays the final value of the expression. The assignment operator requires an environment variable name to the left of the assignment operator. Numeric values are decimal numbers, unless prefixed by 0x for hexadecimal numbers, and 0 for octal numbers. So 0x12 is the same as 18 is the same as 022. Please note that the octal notation can be confusing: 08 and 09 are not valid numbers because 8 and 9 are not valid octal digits. The /P switch allows you to set the value of a variable to a line of input entered by the user. Displays the specified promptString before reading the line of input. The promptString can be empty. Environment variable substitution has been enhanced as follows: %PATH:str1=str2% would expand the PATH environment variable, substituting each occurrence of "str1" in the expanded result with "str2". "str2" can be the empty string to effectively delete all occurrences of "str1" from the expanded output. "str1" can begin with an asterisk, in which case it will match everything from the beginning of the expanded output to the first occurrence of the remaining portion of str1. May also specify substrings for an expansion. %PATH:~10,5% would expand the PATH environment variable, and then use only the 5 characters that begin at the 11th (offset 10) character of the expanded result. If the length is not specified, then it defaults to the remainder of the variable value. If either number (offset or length) is negative, then the number used is the length of the environment variable value added to the offset or length specified. %PATH:~-10% would extract the last 10 characters of the PATH variable. %PATH:~0,-2% would extract all but the last 2 characters of the PATH variable. Finally, support for delayed environment variable expansion has been added. This support is always disabled by default, but may be enabled/disabled via the /V command line switch to CMD.EXE. See CMD /? Delayed environment variable expansion is useful for getting around the limitations of the current expansion which happens when a line of text is read, not when it is executed. The following example demonstrates the problem with immediate variable expansion: set VAR=before if "%VAR%" == "before" ( set VAR=after if "%VAR%" == "after" @echo If you see this, it worked ) would never display the message, since the %VAR% in BOTH IF statements is substituted when the first IF statement is read, since it logically includes the body of the IF, which is a compound statement. So the IF inside the compound statement is really comparing "before" with "after" which will never be equal. Similarly, the following example will not work as expected: set LIST= for %i in (*) do set LIST=%LIST% %i echo %LIST% in that it will NOT build up a list of files in the current directory, but instead will just set the LIST variable to the last file found. Again, this is because the %LIST% is expanded just once when the FOR statement is read, and at that time the LIST variable is empty. So the actual FOR loop we are executing is: for %i in (*) do set LIST= %i which just keeps setting LIST to the last file found. Delayed environment variable expansion allows you to use a different character (the exclamation mark) to expand environment variables at execution time. If delayed variable expansion is enabled, the above examples could be written as follows to work as intended: set VAR=before if "%VAR%" == "before" ( set VAR=after if "!VAR!" == "after" @echo If you see this, it worked ) set LIST= for %i in (*) do set LIST=!LIST! %i echo %LIST% If Command Extensions are enabled, then there are several dynamic environment variables that can be expanded but which don't show up in the list of variables displayed by SET. These variable values are computed dynamically each time the value of the variable is expanded. If the user explicitly defines a variable with one of these names, then that definition will override the dynamic one described below: %CD% - expands to the current directory string. %DATE% - expands to current date using same format as DATE command. %TIME% - expands to current time using same format as TIME command. %RANDOM% - expands to a random decimal number between 0 and 32767. %ERRORLEVEL% - expands to the current ERRORLEVEL value %CMDEXTVERSION% - expands to the current Command Processor Extensions version number. %CMDCMDLINE% - expands to the original command line that invoked the Command Processor. Edited September 23, 2010 by nitekram 2¢ All by me:"Sometimes you have to go back to where you started, to get to where you want to go." "Everybody catches up with everyone, eventually" "As you teach others, you are really teaching yourself." From my dad "Do not worry about yesterday, as the only thing that you can control is tomorrow." WIKI | Tabs; | Arrays; | Strings | Wiki Arrays | How to ask a Question | Forum Search | FAQ | Tutorials | Original FAQ | ONLINE HELP | UDF's Wiki | AutoIt PDF AutoIt Snippets | Multple Guis | Interrupting a running function | Another Send StringRegExp | StringRegExp Help | RegEXTester | REG TUTOR | Reg TUTOT 2 AutoItSetOption | Macros | AutoIt Snippets | Wrapper | Autoit Docs SCITE | SciteJump | BB | MyTopics | Programming | UDFs | AutoIt 123 | UDFs Form | UDF Learning to script | Tutorials | Documentation | IE.AU3 | Games? | FreeSoftware | Path_Online | Core Language Programming Tips Excel Changes ControlHover.UDF GDI_Plus Draw_On_Screen GDI Basics GDI_More_Basics GDI Rotate GDI Graph GDI CheckExistingItems GDI Trajectory Replace $ghGDIPDll with $__g_hGDIPDll DLL 101? Array via Object GDI Swimlane GDI Plus French 101 Site GDI Examples UEZ GDI Basic Clock GDI Detection Ternary operator
nitekram Posted September 23, 2010 Posted September 23, 2010 Function for script would be: EnvSet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Writes an environment variable. EnvSet ( "envvariable" [, "value"] ) Parameters envvariable Name of the environment variable to set. value [optional] Value to set the environment variable to. If a value is not used the environment variable will be deleted. Return Value Success: Returns not 0. Failure: Returns 0. Remarks A environment variable set in this way will only be accessible to programs that AutoIt spawns (Run, RunWait). Once AutoIt closes, the variables will cease to exist. Related EnvGet, EnvUpdate Example EnvSet("MYENV", "this is a test") 2¢ All by me:"Sometimes you have to go back to where you started, to get to where you want to go." "Everybody catches up with everyone, eventually" "As you teach others, you are really teaching yourself." From my dad "Do not worry about yesterday, as the only thing that you can control is tomorrow." WIKI | Tabs; | Arrays; | Strings | Wiki Arrays | How to ask a Question | Forum Search | FAQ | Tutorials | Original FAQ | ONLINE HELP | UDF's Wiki | AutoIt PDF AutoIt Snippets | Multple Guis | Interrupting a running function | Another Send StringRegExp | StringRegExp Help | RegEXTester | REG TUTOR | Reg TUTOT 2 AutoItSetOption | Macros | AutoIt Snippets | Wrapper | Autoit Docs SCITE | SciteJump | BB | MyTopics | Programming | UDFs | AutoIt 123 | UDFs Form | UDF Learning to script | Tutorials | Documentation | IE.AU3 | Games? | FreeSoftware | Path_Online | Core Language Programming Tips Excel Changes ControlHover.UDF GDI_Plus Draw_On_Screen GDI Basics GDI_More_Basics GDI Rotate GDI Graph GDI CheckExistingItems GDI Trajectory Replace $ghGDIPDll with $__g_hGDIPDll DLL 101? Array via Object GDI Swimlane GDI Plus French 101 Site GDI Examples UEZ GDI Basic Clock GDI Detection Ternary operator
GEOSoft Posted September 23, 2010 Posted September 23, 2010 (edited) $sIni = @ScriptDir & "\Settings.ini" $sLastURL = IniRead($sIni, "Sites", "Last Viewed", "http:\autoitscript.com") Local $sLink = "" ;; In here is where you put your code for reading the page and then getting the link ($sLink). If ShellExecute($sLink) Then $sLastUrl = $sLink IniWrite($sIni, "Sites", "last Viewed", $sLastUrl) EndIf Edit: Forgot the code tages Edited September 23, 2010 by GEOSoft George Question about decompiling code? Read the decompiling FAQ and don't bother posting the question in the forums.Be sure to read and follow the forum rules. -AKA the AutoIt Reading and Comprehension Skills test.*** The PCRE (Regular Expression) ToolKit for AutoIT - (Updated Oct 20, 2011 ver:3.0.1.13) - Please update your current version before filing any bug reports. The installer now includes both 32 and 64 bit versions. No change in version number. Visit my Blog .. currently not active but it will soon be resplendent with news and views. Also please remove any links you may have to my website. it is soon to be closed and replaced with something else. "Old age and treachery will always overcome youth and skill!"
Danny35d Posted September 23, 2010 Posted September 23, 2010 Like a mention on Post #6, you are using the Run box then you can read registry and found out what was the last command. $MRUList = RegRead('HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\RunMRU', 'MRUList') $LastCommandRunBox = StringTrimRight(RegRead('HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\RunMRU', StringLeft($MRUList, 1)), 2) MsgBox(0, 'Run Box', $LastCommandRunBox) AutoIt Scripts:NetPrinter - Network Printer UtilityRobocopyGUI - GUI interface for M$ robocopy command line
Allochthonous Posted September 23, 2010 Author Posted September 23, 2010 Danny, each URL starts with the same set of characters. There is no firm breaking point for when the characters become unique. I suppose I could compare the entire string. It sounds like an evironmental variable will reset after the script runs, yes? I think I've got it, but I would like you all to confirm. How do I post code like you did? PK
GEOSoft Posted September 23, 2010 Posted September 23, 2010 When you are making your post look for a button that resembles <> on the toolbar. select your code and click that button. George Question about decompiling code? Read the decompiling FAQ and don't bother posting the question in the forums.Be sure to read and follow the forum rules. -AKA the AutoIt Reading and Comprehension Skills test.*** The PCRE (Regular Expression) ToolKit for AutoIT - (Updated Oct 20, 2011 ver:3.0.1.13) - Please update your current version before filing any bug reports. The installer now includes both 32 and 64 bit versions. No change in version number. Visit my Blog .. currently not active but it will soon be resplendent with news and views. Also please remove any links you may have to my website. it is soon to be closed and replaced with something else. "Old age and treachery will always overcome youth and skill!"
GEOSoft Posted September 23, 2010 Posted September 23, 2010 (edited) Like a mention on Post #6, you are using the Run box then you can read registry and found out what was the last command. $MRUList = RegRead('HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\RunMRU', 'MRUList') $LastCommandRunBox = StringTrimRight(RegRead('HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\RunMRU', StringLeft($MRUList, 1)), 2) MsgBox(0, 'Run Box', $LastCommandRunBox) The way I understand it is, he wants to know the last URL visited from his script. reading the Registry won't work unless that URL happens to be the last thing he did. If he used Run to do anything else in the meantime then he's out of luck. You could also get the last URL visited out of the registry but again it's no good because if he visits a site from any place except his script then the information will be invalid. He has to store the info locally and then read it when he needs it. Edited September 23, 2010 by GEOSoft George Question about decompiling code? Read the decompiling FAQ and don't bother posting the question in the forums.Be sure to read and follow the forum rules. -AKA the AutoIt Reading and Comprehension Skills test.*** The PCRE (Regular Expression) ToolKit for AutoIT - (Updated Oct 20, 2011 ver:3.0.1.13) - Please update your current version before filing any bug reports. The installer now includes both 32 and 64 bit versions. No change in version number. Visit my Blog .. currently not active but it will soon be resplendent with news and views. Also please remove any links you may have to my website. it is soon to be closed and replaced with something else. "Old age and treachery will always overcome youth and skill!"
Allochthonous Posted September 23, 2010 Author Posted September 23, 2010 (edited) First off, thank you all for your help. Here is what I have. It has not been tested. expandcollapse popup$bak = "" ClipPut("") ; clear the clipboard on each key press $globalloc = @TempDir & "\urlpath.ini" $lastrun = IniRead($globalloc,"Section1","URL", "FAIL") If WinExists("Agent Desktop") THEN WinActivate("Agent Desktop") WinWaitActive("Agent Desktop") If WinActive("Agent Desktop") = 1 THEN Send("!{SPACE}x") WinWaitActive("Agent Desktop") $size = WinGetClientSize("Agent Desktop") IF ($size[0] > 900) AND ($size[1] > 600) THEN MouseClick("primary", 650, 500) Send("^a") ;select all Send("^c") ;copy $bak = ClipGet() ;get contents of clipboard IF $bak <> $lastrun Then IF StringInStr($bak,"HTTP://") > 0 THEN Send("#r") ;Start-Run SEND("{DEL}") ;clear run box Send("^v") ;paste Send("{ENTER}") ;enter IniDelete($globalloc,"Section1") IniWrite($globalloc,"Section1","URL",$bak) ELSE MsgBox(4096, "Warning", "This is not valid URL.") ENDIf Else MsgBox(4096, "Warning", "This URL is a duplicate.") EndIf Else MsgBox(4096, "Warning", "Agent Desktop window is too small.") ENDIF ;ShellExecute("iexplore.exe",$bak, "C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer") Else MsgBox(4096, "Warning", "Agent Desktop window is not active.") EndIf Else MsgBox(4096, "Warning", "Agent Desktop window does not exist.") EndIf Edited September 23, 2010 by Allochthonous
Allochthonous Posted September 23, 2010 Author Posted September 23, 2010 I tested the code above, and after changing IF $bak <> $lastrun Then to IF StringInstr($bak,$lastrun) = 0 THEN it seems to be working just fine. Is there a way to programmatically clear the Run history? PK
Overkill Posted September 24, 2010 Posted September 24, 2010 You can use a windows variable if you want, or the registry (but that is overkill)You rang? I tested the code above, and after changing IF $bak <> $lastrun ThentoIF StringInstr($bak,$lastrun) = 0 THENit seems to be working just fine. Is there a way to programmatically clear the Run history? PK Use the RegRead/RegDelete commands to check for and delete entries in HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\RunMRUThe key names used are MRUList and the letters a through z.
Allochthonous Posted September 24, 2010 Author Posted September 24, 2010 Is there any way to clear the Run history without jacking with the registry? I don't think our IT folks would appreciate.
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