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Cursor well positioned on a "save" file button but no left click effective

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Hi,

I use Xygrib, a soft to download .grb charts of wind.

The process is fine until I have to click on the "save" the file button (on the usual Windows pop-up window to save a file) .

The "left click" on the "save" button doesn't work thought the arrow is well positioned on the "save" button.

I tried also the send key "return" (which normally functions) but without the expected result.

Any idea to help?

Thanks

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Henrik_M 2,021 Super User 2024 Season 1 on at

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That happens sometimes.

This method might work better for you. Copy the code into your designer, and add your own UI element:

UIAutomation.GetElementDetails Element: appmask['Quick Launch Bar']['File Explorer'] AttributeName: $'''Location and Size''' AttributeValue=> AttributeValue Text.SplitText.SplitWithDelimiter Text: AttributeValue CustomDelimiter: $''', ''' IsRegEx: False Result=> TextList MouseAndKeyboard.SendMouseClick.ClickAt ClickType: MouseAndKeyboard.MouseClickType.LeftClick MillisecondsDelay: 0 X: TextList[0] + TextList[2] / 2 Y: TextList[1] + TextList[3] / 2 RelativeTo: MouseAndKeyboard.PositionRelativeTo.Screen MovementStyle: MouseAndKeyboard.MovementStyle.Instant
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Thanks for your answer but not being a “geek”, I wonder what is the “designer” you mentioned in your answer.
Two other questions :
I am the administrator of my computer. Even if I launch Powerautomat with a right click to launch it as admin, I am still displayed on the task manager as a “user” instead of “administrator”.
I need to be admin as I am using 7-zip and the app denies me the right to extract the files to a directory.
How can I proceed?
For send-key : I see various way to do this :{control}, {controlkey}. What is the difference between these two ways? I need to simulate the “enter” key.

Thanks for your help.
Bye
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MichaelAnnis 5,727 Moderator on at

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If you press the alt key, do any underlines show up on the menu…for instance, in excel, you can do Alt F O to file-> Open. So you might try send keys in that fashion, such as {Alt}(fs) for file -> save