Found Mouseclick function. Is there a better way to open and run AB 5.296 with
AutoIt rather than the following example? Plus, does anyone know a way to get
WinWaitActive to work on the left 9 characters of "AmiBroker - [RUT-I - Russell
2000 Composite Index Daily]" which is "AmiBroker" as I am thinking that this
would be better than sleep of 20 seconds.
; Run (open) AmiBroker
Run("C:\AmiBroker\broker.exe")
; Wait for AmiBroker to become active - it has "AmiBroker" in upper left window
;WinWaitActive("AmiBroker")
;WinWaitActive("AmiBroker - [RUT-I - Russell 2000 Composite Index Daily]")
; Sleep for 20 seconds to let be sure open
Sleep(20000)
$x = 500 ; x position
$y = 500 ; y position
MouseClick("left",$x,$y)
Sleep(2000)
; Change to TC2000 database - File menu -> Open, T, Enter
Send("!f")
Sleep(2000)
Send("D")
Sleep(2000)
Send("T")
Sleep(2000)
Send("{ENTER}")
Sleep(20000)
; Save AmiBroker
Send("!f") ; ALT f
Sleep(3000)
Send("S") ; S for Save
; Exit AmiBroker
Sleep(2000)
Send("!f") ; ALT f
Sleep(2000)
Send("X") ; X for Exit
; Done
--- In amibroker@yahoogroups.com, "bistrader" <bistra...@...> wrote:
>
> I have been using AB 5.2 and recently installed 5.296. Twice to make sure as
> I was having the following problems.
>
> I can not AB 5.296 to respond to key strokes!!
>
> AB 5.296 is NOT response to key strokes and this causes the problem. Here is
> what I do.
> 1. Click on the AB icon to open AB and it opens.
> 2. Hold down the function key and hit F for File or anything else and AB does
> not respond. Notice that most upper left corner of screen with "AmiBroker -
> [RUT-I - Russell 2000 Composite Index Daily]" in it is light Blue.
> 3. Click on center of screen and notice that upper left corner of screen with
> "AmiBroker - [RUT-I - Russell 2000 Composite Index Daily]" in it turns to
> Dark Blue. Now, AB responds to key strokes like Function Key with F for File.
>
> I need to figure out how to work around this problem as I use AutoIt a lot to
> run AB. None of my AutoIt programs key strokes will work in AB 5.296 (they
> did in 5.20, my last version on my PC) just like they do not work as
> explained above. Here is a simple example of an AutoIt.
>
> I can not get AutoIt to work with AB 5.296 give that AB 5.296 will NOT
> respond to key strokes UNTIL one clicks on the center of the screen after AB
> opens.
>
> Run("C:\AmiBroker\broker.exe")
>
> ; NEXT LINE DOES NOT WORK ANYMORE
> ;WinWaitActive("AmiBroker")
> ; NEITHER DOES NEXT LINE
> ;WinWaitActive("AmiBroker - [RUT-I - Russell 2000 Composite Index Daily]")
>
> ; Sleep for 20 seconds to let be sure open
> Sleep(20000)
>
> ; Change to TC2000 database - File menu -> Open, T, Enter
> Send("!f")
> Sleep(2000)
> Send("D")
> Sleep(2000)
> Send("T")
> Sleep(2000)
> Send("{ENTER}")
> Sleep(30000)
>
> ; Save AmiBroker
> Send("!f") ; ALT f
> Sleep(3000)
> Send("S") ; S for Save
>
> ; Exit AmiBroker
> Sleep(2000)
> Send("!f") ; ALT f
> Sleep(2000)
> Send("X") ; X for Exit
>
> ; DONE
>
> AmiBroker opens with the code above BUT AmiBroker does NOT respond to ANY of
> the key strokes. Help appreciated.
>
> ...
>
