Macro stops at nettwork password window and wont go further

[Alistair7]

I worked til 2AM last night installing QM2 on all the computers at school. The first day at school for students begins on Monday so I have a lot to do there today. The administration of the network takes a LOT of time. That's why I'm trying to use QM to automate and speed up a number of tasks. I want to be able to do everything from my PC on the LAN like:

- transferring files and folders to all other computers on LAN
- installing new programs
- turning on all the VNC servers on the other computers
- etc....

Obviously I need a listenning port on each computer so that I can remotely run programs or macros inside each PC. I am a beginner with servers and clients. I have found a free program called Poweroff which I have running on all PCs which listens on a port. With that program I can remotely run any EXE or BAT file separately on every PC. I plan to use a BAT file to run locally saved QM2 macros. That is my plan. Probably not the best way. But I hope it will work.

I have written 20 long macros in V1.3 which have worked quite well. They are all now fully converted. But last night I got really stuck on 2 simple problems.

The following works well on V1.3

run \\Kiwi\C
"password"
Y

But the same does not work on V2.09

run "\\Kiwi\C"
key "password"
key Y

When the network password window opens, the macro still shows red, but just gets stuck. The password is not typed in by QM2. I have to type it in myself, and then the macro goes further. How do I get around this.

The second problem:

I have a folder with 13 shortcuts to open VNC viewers for all 13 computers. With V1.3 I opened them with the following:

spe 500
run c:\windows\Skrivebord\vnc\banan.vnc
run c:\windows\Skrivebord\vnc\Jordbær.vnc
run c:\windows\Skrivebord\vnc\Morell.vnc
run c:\windows\Skrivebord\vnc\Pære.vnc
run c:\windows\Skrivebord\vnc\Drue.vnc
run c:\windows\Skrivebord\vnc\Fersken.vnc
run c:\windows\Skrivebord\vnc\Bjørnebær.vnc
run c:\windows\Skrivebord\vnc\Sitron.vnc
run c:\windows\Skrivebord\vnc\Eple.vnc
run c:\windows\Skrivebord\vnc\Lime.vnc
run c:\windows\Skrivebord\vnc\Kiwi.vnc
run c:\windows\Skrivebord\vnc\Presterom.vnc
run c:\windows\Skrivebord\vnc\Admin.vnc

These opened quickly as expected with 500 ms between each

Why does the following on V2.09 run SO SLOW? It takes around 8 seconds between each window!!! It took just as long when I tried it on another PC.

spe 500
run "c:\windows\Skrivebord\vnc\banan.vnc"
run "c:\windows\Skrivebord\vnc\Jordbær.vnc"
run "c:\windows\Skrivebord\vnc\Morell.vnc"
run "c:\windows\Skrivebord\vnc\Pære.vnc"
run "c:\windows\Skrivebord\vnc\Drue.vnc"
run "c:\windows\Skrivebord\vnc\Fersken.vnc"
run "c:\windows\Skrivebord\vnc\Bjørnebær.vnc"
run "c:\windows\Skrivebord\vnc\Sitron.vnc"
run "c:\windows\Skrivebord\vnc\Eple.vnc"
run "c:\windows\Skrivebord\vnc\Lime.vnc"
run "c:\windows\Skrivebord\vnc\Kiwi.vnc"
run "c:\windows\Skrivebord\vnc\Presterom.vnc"
run "c:\windows\Skrivebord\vnc\Admin.vnc"
0.1

I was forced to write the following instead which works 100 times faster!!

run "c:\windows\Skrivebord\vnc\"
key Ca
key Y

Grateful for help today if possible.

[Alistair7]

Can V1.3, if it is open, affect the running of V2.09?

[Gintaras]

If either is disabled or does not have same triggers, QM1 and QM2 should not conflict.

QM 209 run command waits for input idle. It should improve macro reliability, but now I see that it was mistake. This feature will be removed in next versions.

Try this function instead of run. Let function's name is Run. Replace all non-working instances of run to Run.

Code:

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function ~file [$params] [$verb] [~workdir] [showcmd]

dll# shell32.dll ShellExecute hWnd $lpOperation $lpFile $lpParameters $lpDirectory nShowCmd

file.expandpath
workdir.expandpath
if(!len(params)) params=0
if(!len(verb)) verb=0
if(workdir.len) workdir.all
if(showcmd=0) showcmd=SW_NORMAL

if(ShellExecute(0 verb file params workdir showcmd)<=32) end "cannot run"