I have to create video-tutorial as help. We have a document with help, but customer want video.
I have found chrome extensions for this purpose - Screencastify (https://www.screencastify.com) for recording chrome tab contenct. It is cool that this tool highlight user clicks.
The best trouble is filling forms. I can't find any tool, or chrome extension or something, whitch is able to fill fluently forms. When I am filling forms, i make some typing errors and typing is not fluent - video tutorial looks unprofesionall and chaotic.
I have tried UI Vision RPA (https://ui.vision/), but this tool does not simulate user click (yes with some extension, but before simulation user click screen becomes green for a while), but there are no highlighted clicked position.
Is there a tool that can simulate a smooth form fill according to a prepared script or a macro - basically something like an auto-run UI test, such as a keyboard shortcut that is able to simulate mouse clicks and fluently write defined form content?
There are lot of ways to do it. All below three allow record and play back.
1. VBA macros in excel,
2. Automated test tools and frameworks like Selenium
3. RPA tools like WinAutomation or automation anywhere etc.
Once you record, you can go to recorded script, correct any spelling mistakes, add any pauses needed, start your screen recorder and play back the script.
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Recently there is this "Search images with Google Lens" in the contextual menu (triggered from the right click) in Chrome browser, which is super useful.
For those who doesn't know yet, if you click on that item you can define a screenshot area and then Google Lens page opens with the image you just framed. And then it lets you search for "things" inside this image.
What I try to do is to find a way to assign a hotkey to trigger that menu item without being forced to use the mouse (e.g. ctrl + alt + s). The reason I want to do that is because I overuse this functionality and I am in a keyboard-over-mouse increase productivity mind of set.
My first thinking was to make a page script that would trigger that contextual menu and click the item but as far as I know there is nothing in the JavaScript API with that much power
(There is this " JavaScript - simulate click on contextmenu " but they are not talking about the native Chrome contextual menu I believe.)
Another option would be to use some key automation program like AutoHotKey in windows but there is one problem, the contextual menu is not always located in the same position relative to the mouse (e.g. if the menu is triggered at the bottom of the page it will appear above the mouse pointer).
Other than that I don't really see another solution.
I am digging for some idea and maybe you could help me if you are interested in the same outcome.
EDIT: For whoever may be interested
I made this python script
https://github.com/vdegenne/lens-clicker
It works on my computer, I can now get the result I want. But I keep this question opened for more ideas, seeking a better solution.
(You can also contribute to the project on the GitHub page).
I use Vimium, an extension to allow vim-like keybindings for browser navigation.
You can add search engines, for example Google Lens as so:
i https://lens.google.com/uploadbyurl?url=%S Google Lens
So once I have the URL of the image in the clipboard, I type o, i, Space, Ctrl + v, Enter
I'm working on finding a way of getting the URL of the image, but am not sure Vimium supports this. If not, using the URL template (above) to search Google Lens is still a much more robust way than by automating clicks on a menu, so hopefully that's helpful.
How ungroup the "Open as..." context menu entry?
If I am using only 2 Profiles, I'm good
Screen of only 2 profiles
As you can see in the screenshot, I have to do two clicks for opening an url link within the other profile.
Screen of 3 or more profiles
But if I have a third profile, the context menu changes, it creates an expandable item, grouping the other profiles. That is very annoying, because I have to navigate first to the "Open as" line and then after a short delay or an additional click the profile-list appeares where I need to select appropriate profile.
Can we revert the behaviour to list all available profiles within the root context menu?
May we create a keyboard-shortcut for every profile, so pressing the asssigned button while clicking on any links, will open the url in that profile.
Or is there an extension for doing the job? I couldn find any useful information to solve this...
Thanks in advance for any helpful advices :)
(sorry for the spellingmistakes)
Offtopic:
(migrating from ff to chromium. Everyday web-based apps for end-consumers getting more focus, which means in my eyes, programmatically design gets more limited due to the main concept behind our standardized world wide web. And additionally user control gets worse everyday because that's the new key to generate money no longer just for complex & highly specialized products. e.g. timeinvestigation is enormous to through out all the bugs and bullshit extensions to get a reasonably useful tool for accessing the world wide web.)
I'm building a Google Chrome extension at the moment and I have a question about when to use an event page.
A quick look at the Chrome extension docs shows that Google really want its developers to use event pages, if possible.
My extension currently uses a background page, but I was wondering if I should switch to an event page?
This is what my extension does:
When matched with a particular website, it injects a script that adds buttons for the user to access extra functionality.
Most of this extra functionality consists of doing fairly computationally expensive operations on user-entered data - this is all done in the background page (it is all it does).
When a user wants to run these operations on their data they press a button and this passes a message, from the injected script to the background page, which then passes a message back containing the results of its operations.
Essentially, all the background page is doing is waiting for message passing from an injected script in one particular website and then running some operations. Since it doesn't need to be active all the time, this suggests that I should be using an event page.
Can anyone confirm if this would be a good idea for me? Or are there reasons why I should stick to a background page?
Allowing the background page to suspend (chrome.runtime.onSusend) is great, because it will free up system resources. The page will automatically be launched when a matching event happens (chrome.tab.onUpdated etc). I can't think of any compelling reason to use a persistent background page. You can always store any long term state in chrome.storage.local or indexedDb, etc.
OK. So first, I will try my best to explain so good. My friend has gotten cursed out on this forum for not explaining, so I will explain. :)
Ok so I have my program built and all. But then it hit me! Wouldn't it be better to add a news feature? One teeny tiny problem? I cant? How would I implement a interactive code into an HTML page.
Like can i connect a button to a URL that will make the program do something. Almost like you can open cydia tweaks with there identifier and url EXAMPLE: http://handleopenurl.com/scheme/cydia And then i can add urls so i can update the program, without updating the files.
Or even just a featured news thing would be nice. But how would i implement this perfectly. I tryed a webrowser, but the page is too big for it. I am good at html, not much at css, i mostly use Adobe Muse http://www.adobe.com/Muse
Last question. Kinda defies the first thing i said about having my program finished.
Is there a way i can add a plus button and make it add more buttons and more labels and all?
This would help with allowing users to customize more then what the program can handle. By The Way, its a winter board Theme Maker. So I have a bunch of icons with there bundle identifiers and I create the folders with VB.net and all that stuff. But i want users to be able to click a plus button to add MORE text boxes and file browsers.
Any ideas? Maybe DIM 1 as NewFileBrowser? But i need to move all the buttons and i need it to be able to be clicked an infinity amount of times. I can do the coding for all of these buttons, but i jest need to know how to create them <1 Move them and the button so that the button goes further down each time, and more boxes will go further down. Much help apreciated. THANKS:)
EDIT:
Are you trying to say that you're wondering how to have a web browser control in a vb.net >app, which displays a web page, and when a button is clicked on the page, your app detects >it and does something? – Thraka
That sums up the top part. I am using windows forms, and it is coded in VB.net
If you get the object you want, like the button, you can hook the event and have it call code in your form.
Find the object using the Browser.Document.GetElementById method.
With that object, add an event handler to the Click event.
See http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.forms.htmlelementeventhandler(v=vs.110).aspx for information about the event handler used
I am in the process of creating a simple WYSIWYG HTML editor to enable the users of my application to design simple HTML emails.
At the moment I have decided to use the web browser control with MSHTML to enable me to edit what is displayed. I have a tool bar which holds all of the relevant buttons, bold, underline, etc.
I need a way to check if the current block has any formatting so the correct state can be displayed on the buttons in the tool bar. I tried to add an event handler to the IHTMLDocument to fire when the mouse is moved or the arrow keys are pressed, however, this stopped the web browser from taking any input.
Is there a simpler way to achieve this goal?
There are several rich editors for free out of that tinyMCE is one of the better editor.
For list of editors see the link below.
http://www.queness.com/post/212/10-jquery-and-non-jquery-javascript-rich-text-editors