I am trying to display wait cursor (spinning rainbow wheel) by using "QDDisplayWaitCursor" function, but I get a warning that "QDDisplayWaitCursor" is deprecated, however everything runs fine but I would like to replace it with proper alternative of this function but I didnt find any google result and also in apple docs.
The best thing to do is to use something else1:
The spinning wait cursor is displayed automatically by
the window server when an application
cannot handle all of the events it
receives. If an application does not
respond for about 2 to 4 seconds, the
spinning wait cursor appears. You
should try to avoid situations in your
application in which the spinning wait
cursor will be displayed.
Instead use progress indicators, in a window- or application-modal way if neccessary.
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I've tried many variations of a script whose purpose is to send rapid clicks when either mouse button is held down. In my own script I have both left and right click loops but here is the simplest version I tried:
SetKeyDelay, -1
$RButton::
While GetKeyState("RButton", "P") {
Send, {RButton}
}
Returm
When using this, I get about 20 clicks per second. However, I would like to achieve 30 or so. What I infer from this, is that the send command has a 50 ms delay (1000ms/20 clicks). I would also like to use the {Blind} modifier but that slows it down even more (to about 16 clicks per second).
The obvious answer I think is to use SendInput, and I was able to achieve desired clicks per second using SendInput. However, it came with undesirable side effects. Namely, the key buffering is very unwanted in my use case. In addition, no matter if I used a while loop with GetKeyState or a Button up configuration with SetTimer and Gosub, the right click and left click loops would get stuck occasionally (interference?). The loops getting stuck was not a problem with Send as I'm able to put the loops for each mouse button in separate scripts. When I do that with SendInput, it lowers the clicks per second drastically.
I have also tried SendPlay and SendEvent to no success. Also, I tried using V2 although most of my testing has been in 1.1.35.00.
I don't think it is CPU or memory related as SendInput is able to hit the clicks per second goal of 30 and both CPU and memory stay at about 60%. I could be wrong here though. I also don't think the application I am using is restricting the click rate for the same reason of it being able to register 30 with SendInput.
I greatly appreciate anyone who takes the time to read this! Happy Holidays!
Expecting about 30 clicks per second with both right and left mouse buttons being held down.
I've tried:
Send, SendInput, SendPlay, SendEvent
#MaxThreadsPerHotkey, 2 #SingleInstance Force
SetKeyDelay, -1 SetBatchLines, -1
While loop with GetKeyState as condition and also tried SetTimer and Gosub with individual functions
V2 and 1.1.35.00.
Resulted always in a maximum of 16 clicks per second with Send
With SendInput, user keystrokes sent while clicking were always buffered, which was undesired. As well as the loops getting stuck occassionally
I've passed many hours searching the web for a solution to something which seems obvious, but without results.
I need to automate a task in a Flash application running on my intranet.
I can't change the Flash application nor do I have access to the source code.
it's not a Flash movie but an application.
I can't download the swf.
I'm using a WebBrowser in a form. The Flash app is displaying without issues.
So far, I have been able to automate the task (clicking on some buttons, then inputting text and finally saving the results on a server). It works but it's not clean at all because I use hard-coded timers to wait a given action is done and then I click on very specific point at given coordinates in the application.
What I would like to do:
Avoid hard-coded timers. the Flash application takes some time to display all elements on the window (from 20 to 60+ sec). I would like to be able to detect when all elements are loaded. I tried to retrieve the text of the windows handle, but while I can retrieve the Flash hwnd, I can't retrieve the content (through messages).
In brief, instead of waiting 60sec (and not being 100% sure it's enough), if the last element to load in the Flash app has "ABC" written in it, I would like to detect it's displayed so that I can continue the sequence (click on the next button).
I'm using VB.net. Any hints to achieve that would be appreciated.
Lol. I am trying to do the same thing but with no results. You can try to see if there are POST/GET codes that can help you if the application has an online nature. Other than that you can only simulate clicks, because flash can't be easily interacted with. This is why most of the things are going to swap with HTML5 now.
I have a webpage where I am waiting for a button to appear, and when it appears I would like to click it. The button is on a timer and may take as long as an hour to appear. Also, if the button takes longer than a certain length of time to appear, I'd like to move the mouse (otherwise the website will log me out automatically).
So, to wait for a button to appear I devised this Sikuli script:
button = "button.png"
while(1):
if exists(button):
print("found it")
click(button)
break
else:
print("wait longer")
wait(button,30*60)
# do a regular task
print "all done!"
The above does not seem to be functional. If the button is on screen, the script will find it... However, if it has to wait it will simply time out quickly with a FindFailed exception (on the click() even though the button does not exist on screen). I considered writing a handler, but seems like overkill.
What am I doing wrong and what is the best way to wait a long period for a visual event like this?
Some other thoughts for you...
while(1):
wait(Button, 30*60) # This will spinlock for 30 minutes for the button to appear
if exists(Button):
hover(Button) # Debug statement allowing user to see what Sikuli has matched to
click (Button)
else:
mouseMove(Location(50,100))
mouseMove(Location(50,200))
Links:
wait
mouse movement link
Location
Maybe Sikuli recognizes something that looks quite your button, and tries to click it.
If you right click in the IDE your button pattern, you can fine tune the tolerance level for recognition. Try to cut the image exactly around your button and increase the value to be more precise.
I suggest you to read this tutorial
http://doc.sikuli.org/tutorials/surveillance/surveillance.html
and to set up a event handler to manage your button when it appears
http://doc.sikuli.org/region.html#Region.onAppear
http://doc.sikuli.org/region.html#observingvisualeventsinaregion
It is not much code to write.
You can get a nice example with full source code in Sikuli's Blog here
http://sikuli.org/blog/2011/08/15/sikuli-plays-angry-birds-on-google-games/
I think you can just set up your handlers and go with
observe(FOREVER)
If you want sikuli to do stuff while your waiting for an image i would use the onAppear(pic, function) and observe(FOREVER, true) methods this is how it works
event = Sikuli.event
def function(event):
click(yourButton.png)
onAppear(picYourWaitingFor.png, function)
observe(FOREVER, true)
basically what this does is onAppear will continuously scan the screen for picYourWaitingFor.png. sikuli continues execution after words so it's scanning while its working. on the appearance of said pic it will jump to the function you put down as the second parameter of onAppear.
I have this same issue as described. Its not about waiting forever. And Observe won't work either, because that does watch forever. Think about wanting to check for event only for a certain period of time say 60 seconds. If it doesn't occur, move on. This could be happening in a specific series of events. If the image doesn't appear in the 60 seconds, move on to do another series.
wait(image,60)
...will crash after 60 seconds if it doesn't find the image, which isn't what is wanted at all in my case.
So I did something like this:
attempt = 1
count=0
while attempt:
if exists(image):
attempt=0
else:
count=count+1
if count>60:
attempt=0
else:
wait(1)
Probably a better way and doesn't give an exact time, but approach doesn't crash the script.
You could also try: except it.. Should be shorter.
I have an issue with WindowsHookEx in vb.net. If my pc is overloaded especially from 3D rendering, windows automatically disconnects my keyboard hook and my hotkeys stop working. I searched around and it seems that there is no way to detect whether a hook is active or disconnected. So I tried this method presented by "moodforaday"
Is it possible to detect when a low-level keyboard hook has been automatically disconnected by Windows?
hook-has-been-automatically-d
He states that using GetLastInputInfo periodically and store GetLastInputInfo to another variable when a key is used and compare the results. If the tick is much newer than your older variable then its likely that its disconnected. Its a great method but the ticks can go up from other things like the mouse. In my Hook class there is no Mouse hook therefore I cannot store a variable of the tick count when the mouse is moved. So now I ended up having it create a new instance of the hook class and hook again. It checks every second if the stored tick is older than new tick by 10000 ticks.
Is it alright to keep creating new instances of Hooks? It will keep Hooking/Unhooking constantly and I'm wondering if that is going to be a problem for Windows.
Also if anyone has another method to detect if a hook is disconnected please let me know would fix this whole hassle.
Do your 3D rendering in a background thread. Use Control.Invoke only for code where you directly access UI controls.
Alternately, you could split the rendering into very small pieces and post them to yourself as messages, to be handled on the main thread. This way you will be able to handle both internal and external messages.
In both cases, your application will be responding in a timely fashion, Windows will have no reason to consider it non-responding, and your keyboard shortcuts will stay in place.
Can anyone help me how to display message/alert box when user clicks Close option (X) of the window in flex ?
Like in html we can handle it by using,
window.onbeforeunload = function(){return "Are you sure you want to Exit";}
Is there anything in Flex similar to "window.onbeforeunload" of HTML which can handle Close option (X) of the window ?
If not, can anyone help me to handle this with sample code.?
In my mxml i have not used any kind of , etc.
My flex screen is opened from a jsp page through a hyper link and i dont want to use any window related tags. It is normal screen with min, max and close option.
Thanks,
Anand.
Use ExternalInterface.addCallback and from JavaScript call the AS function you want to run on close.
However I do not think you can block the browser from closing this way as it would be a security hole.
Another thing to note here is that the code in the function should run fast or you may risk not having it all done before the browser closes.
All clients work should be done before close so a method like this wouldn't be needed.
A more appropriate method would be to create some kind of session for the user and store the data server side as the client works.
Unless of course your are just trying to make some kind of hack app.