if page hangs, refresh it

[dickjones007]

when i macro surf with IE certain pages tend to hang or my IE crashes.

so im looking for a way to get things moving again if im not around.

is there any commands that can refresh page if, lets say, PixelChecksum (50,50,100,100) stays the same for maybe 2 mins?

[JohnOne]

_IEAction($oIE,"refresh")

[dickjones007]

i know about refresh but i want to do it ONLY if window/page stays the same for more than 2 minutes

[Tripredacus]

Well you can use PixelChecksum to store the data in a variable. Then have it sleep 2 minutes, call PixelChecksum again for the same area, and compare the new data to the one stored in the variable. If they are the same, then refresh.

[dickjones007]

... Then have it sleep 2 minutes, call PixelChecksum again for the same area, ...

can u please explain how?

edit: forget it, i figured

thanks for help

Edited July 18, 2012 by dickjones007

[dickjones007]

this is no good

when script sleeps 2 minutes then the selected area will surely be the same cause script doesn't surf anywhere else

anyone else has any suggestions?

[JohnOne]

This is something you can only figure out for yourself really.

Only you know what you are doing and how you deal with it.

Use that knowledge to automate what you do manually.

As an example, if your script is collecting data, and the flow of it stops

then refresh the page, you can use a timer for something like that.