My goal is to launch a file using this in vb.net via the click of a button..
System.Diagnostics.Process.Start("X:\Desktop\Brutal Doom\PLAY ME BRUTAL DOOM!!!.pk3")
Which works, however as soon as I move to my laptop or another computer the button can no longer find the file as the drive letter has changed.. is there a way to code this so that it is no longer dependable on the drive letter and only will see \Brutal Doom\PLAM ME BRUTAL DOOM!!!.pk3 thus working on whatever computer I put the folder on...
Are you basically looking for this? How to get a path to the desktop for current user in C#?
ie System.Diagnostics.Process.Start(My.Computer.FileSystem.SpecialDirectories.Desktop & "\Brutal Doom\PLAY ME BRUTAL DOOM!!!.pk3")
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I am working on a Voice Assistant.
I need to allow it to launch apps, how can be found the path of the apps to launch them?
Your question is quite minimal but I can attempt to answer it for you.
Assuming that you're using windows 10, with Word for example, you would type in word using the indexing feature at the bottom left of your desktop. Then you would click the down arrow to reveal more options. Then you would click open file location. The address at the top of your explorer will show the file location.
If you want to open another exe (or compatible software) in a known location but is not available to index, you would open your explorer and navigate to the desired application. Copy paste the address at the top of the explorer window.
You should import subprocess to your code and when you need to open the app write subprocess.check_output("file location", shell=True)
For example:
subprocess.check_output("C:\\Test\\Test\\Test\\application.exe(or .lnk or something u need)", shell=True)
I am creating calculator VBO in blueprism object studio.
In application modeller I gave calc.exe path and able to launch calculator, but I am not getting identify option to spy on any element..
In Element, After clicking Launch buttion, identify is appearing for a split of sec and Launch button is coming back instead of Identify
PS- As mentioned in videos and links, I have launched calc via application modeller not directly via windows..
I am using windows 10, BluePrism V.5.0.11.0 versionenter image description here
Windows 10 calculator is complicated case, please consider using different application in your training. For example paint is much simpler to get started.
If you really need to get that going, then you may need to launch application first, using one object, and afterwards use second object to attach and interact with it.
can be two reasons
1. Either your application is not launched properly.
2. Sometimes we face problems with some versions of applications.
The best way to fix your problem is
Edit your settings remove the application path from the navigate stage.
Launch the application separately
Open Navigate stage > Action > Attach
Provide the window title within quotes (example: "Calculator")
Click OK then run the object
Now if you go to application modeller
You will be able to see the identify button under the element.
Hope this will help you.
I resolved this by unchecking "Disable invasive techniques (hooking)".
The Windows 10 calculator runs with process name win32calc which is also located under c:\windows\system32.
So when you launch the application please make you identify the applications process name and its location
I resolved this by circumventing to windows 7 calculator instead of a windows 10 calculator on windows 10.
Link to download win 7 calculator for win 10-
https://winaero.com/download.php?view.1795
This will be installed in the same place as your default calculator.
Inside-
C:\Windows\System32
The name of the app in my case was "calc1.exe" to avoid collisions with the default calculator.
I used this as my base reference app for spying and it worked.
Also note, the hover to highlight button seems to be a bit buggy, try a bit hit and trail to get you required button to be highlighted and mark using "Ctrl+LeftClick"
On windows 10.
I need to automate the repeated process of these steps.
1. Open up an image in GIMP. Scale it to 110%.
2. Export as somefile name(for example input001.jpg).
3. Go to http://deepdreamgenerator.com/ in a browser. click on button, browse to the exported file.
4. Wait for it to generate result, save image as result file (for example dream001.jpg).
then repeat from step 1 with the result file from step 4...but keep increasing the filename number so export it as input002.jpg...
What software would allow me to do this?
the only software i know of that * MIGHT * be able to automate that process is AutoHotKey
You would need to keep the windows which you're automating static (ie. make sure they don't move) and then write keyboard and mouse macros in autohotkey to press the buttons and do the things you want.
I tried AutoHotKey but didn't feel like learning a whole new scripting language so I found something simpler called GhostMouse.
It just has record,play,stop buttons.
after recording and closing out of program it asks if i want to save script. clicked yes gave it a name, and then edited the script file..and copied and pasted as many times as i wanted the script to run (before copying and pasting i deleted the last 3 lines which has to do with clicking the stop button which i didn't want the script to do).
You can also try Sikuli for same. It's an image comparator
http://www.sikuli.org/
Reference :-
http://doc.sikuli.org/tutorials/
I have a program that out of my control will bring up a message box (I didn't write or have source code)
I am trying to find out if it is possible to write a program (visual studio) that can at a set time, say every 10 minutes close all open applications(msgbox) but keep the process going? The application/task name is different to the process name.
It runs on XP and 7.
I've tried google but haven't managed to find what I'm after, all i can find is process kill. Not 100% sure on correct terminology.
You might be better-off writing a program that finds a current open dialog (window, messagebox, etc) and closing it. Sending an Esc keystroke is a pretty easy approach. Here is another SO article that talks about doing this: How to send a mouse click event to a hidden window?
I picked vb.net for this question since it's the only prgramming language I am fairly familair with, but if C++ or something else is more suited for this, I am willing to learn something new.
What I am trying to do is:
Retrieve text from database (this already works in vb.net) and copy it to clipboard
Switch primary screen to the external application I want to work with (example: word or open office)
Emulate key-press Enter
Paste text and hit Enter again
Emulate key-press Ctrl and then emulate a click on a pre-defined spot on the screen (like 500pixels from left, 740pixels from top).
Save screenshot, using a second value from the database as the filename (the naming part should be easy)
Emulate another click on another pre-defined spot
Repeat for next text in database.
I wouldn't know where to start, though. I guess the most important part of what I'm trying to achieve is; switching focus to an external application and emulate keypresses and mouse clicks on it.
use http://www.autohotkey.com/
write a console app to get the value from the database
1 - get autohotkey to run the console app and put the return into the clipboard
then continue as described in your list.