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Posted on by Community Power Pla... Microsoft Employee

Hello

I am still trying to create a flow that will allow me to open a file, save it as with a new format, and do this for hundreds of files. The flow i am trying to create is on a program called CadKey 98. I created mouse actions for the mouse to hover over teh "open file" icon, and it seems to work fine. But I then sent a key with the command to open a file {LControlKey}({O}) and nothing happens.

 

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  • Henrik_M Profile Picture
    Henrik_M 2,021 Super User 2024 Season 1 on at

    Why are you using the key shortcut if you have the mouse hoving on the 'open file' button? Just click.

  • Community Power Platform Member Profile Picture
    Community Power Pla... Microsoft Employee on at

    I have tried the click option, but the command is not executed and I do not get any errors from this step. At times I think that this problem may be related to how old the program is ( Cadkey 1998) 

  • burque505 Profile Picture
    burque505 398 on at

    @Anonymous, you might try automating using images since the program is so old.

    Regards,

    burque505

  • Henrik_M Profile Picture
    Henrik_M 2,021 Super User 2024 Season 1 on at

    Try the following:

     

    1. Get details of UI element but choose location and size instead of the default own text.
    2. Convert text %AttributeValue['Left']% to number variable %Left%
    3. Convert text %AttributeValue['Top']% to number variable %Top%
    4. Convert text %AttributeValue['Width']% to number variable %Width%
    5. Convert text %AttributeValue['Height']% to number variable %Height%
    6. Send mouse click on coordinates X: %Left + Width / 2% and Y: %Top + Height / 2%

     

  • Community Power Platform Member Profile Picture
    Community Power Pla... Microsoft Employee on at

    I will send out an additional message with further details of what I am still having issues on.

  • Community Power Platform Member Profile Picture
    Community Power Pla... Microsoft Employee on at

    The image below shows the program environment I am working with.

    aatala22_0-1619005319026.png

    So far, I have been able to launch the program and make the cursor hover over to the file open icon and left click.

    aatala22_1-1619005572478.png

      At this point, I would expect to see the following window open.

    aatala22_2-1619005668987.png

    Nothing happens after the left click is executed. I have seen some responses to my previous messages, but I feel this message explains the issue in greater detail. I am open to further suggestions at this point.

  • burque505 Profile Picture
    burque505 398 on at

    @Anonymous, you could try this approach, although since you're already using coordinates it might not work.

    Capture the image to click on, should look more or less like this:

    file-image-2.png

    You can use this action to capture the image and have the flow send a click to it when it runs.

    action.PNG

     

     

     

  • Community Power Platform Member Profile Picture
    Community Power Pla... Microsoft Employee on at

    So, I did as you suggested, but the left click action does not trigger the program to open the "open" window for some reason.

    aatala22_3-1619011966952.png

     

  • burque505 Profile Picture
    burque505 398 on at

    I was afraid of that, since your flow using coordinates didn't work (and it seems like it should have). This is an interesting problem - I wish I had a copy of the program to experiment with, but I can't find it as abandonware anywhere.

  • Community Power Platform Member Profile Picture
    Community Power Pla... Microsoft Employee on at

    Unfortunately, the program has no more technical support and it seems to be on a phase out period. Mt original task was to open each of thousands of files and save them into a dxf format, and i did not want to have a person do this type of repetitive work.

     

    Another way to approach this problem is by assigning the CRTl +O keys to open the "open" file window. I tried this approach by using the "send keys" action, but I did not get any response. I may have used the wrong syntax

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