I'm relatively new to batch commands and have been learning steadily. My problem is like this:
I've understood how to kill processes using batch commands using many different methods. However, I've been unable to figure out how to close a single tab in, preferably, chrome.
Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks!
So, I suppose I should state my exact problem.
I'm using notepad++ as my LaTeX compiler and sending the final pdf to chrome. The reason: I usually have ~20 tabs open related to the project I'm working on and it just makes my work much easier to split my screen between notepad++ and chrome.
My current batch file compiles the LaTeX code and sends the compiled document to chrome as a new tab. For obvious reasons, i don't want to close a tab each time I compile, so I thought that closing the current tab at the same time during compiling would solve my problem. But, I just can't find a way to get my batch file to only close the tab with my compiled pdf.
Thanks in advance!
check all running chrome instances/tabs with :
wmic process where "caption='chrome.exe'" get
and see processes properties.Probably the best indicator that you can rely on in this case is CreationDate (other properties are basically the same for all chrome instances) - it always comes in format YYYYMMDDHHmmss.ms and is easy for string comparison.But you'll have to know the time when it was started.
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Im trying to automate a process on my job which is just creating and downloading pdf file like 1000 times but the problem is, i tried both library and both working normal on every test i made except one program that i need. Its not giving error, it looks like working but nothing happens.
I can still locate image on the screen but when i tried to send key or click to a button on program nothing happens. What can i do about this, is there any other way for this?
I tried both library with different programs but the only one i need is the only one that i get issue
I solved my problem today. There is no problem with any library, it was just because of the program that I need running as "Run as administrator" and because of that when I tried to run cmd administrator it's just working well. looks like both should be at the same level to get control over it.
Long story short, I'm not a coder.
My team used to have this coder who created this Python/Selenium code to extract some information from chrome browser (Echocardiography reports) and/or downloaded mht file (also Echocardiography reports).
This code was working fine until recently, it stopped working.
The program still successfully downloads the mht file via chrome.
However, it fails to open the file and hence, code continues without extracting any information - resulting in empty extractions.
This is the part I need help figuring out
driver.get('chrome://downloads')
# driver.get('file:///C:/Users/name/Downloads/')
root1 = driver.find_element_by_tag_name('downloads-manager')
shadow_root1 = expand_shadow_element(root1)
time.sleep(2)
root2 = shadow_root1.find_element_by_css_selector('downloads-item')
shadow_root2 = expand_shadow_element(root2)
time.sleep(1.5)
openEchoFileButton = shadow_root2.find_element_by_id('file-link')
mhtFileName = openEchoFileButton.text
driver.get('file:///C:/Users/name/Downloads/' + mhtFileName) # go to web page
try:
echoDateElement = WebDriverWait(driver, delay).until(
EC.presence_of_element_located((By.XPATH, '/html/body/div[3]/p[1]/span[3]')))
except TimeoutException:
print("Loading page took too much time!")
I'm trying to figure out why it suddenly fails to open the downloaded mht files.
Last time our team tried using this code is back in 2020 and was successful.
Were there any updates to Chrome perhaps?
Help would be immensely appreciated.
Thank you so much in advance.
There are three obvious weaknesses in this code. The first two are the use of time.sleep() to wait for the element to appear and be manipulable. What if the machine is busy doing something else, and 1.5 seconds isn't enough? The right way to do that is to repeatedly check for the element to be ready. You've got a great example of how to do that using WebDriverWait() in this code already. The third weakness is the locator used in that presence_of_element_located() call. XPath locators rooted at "/html" are notoriously fragile, subject to breakage by small changes to the web page. Try to find something in the page that you can check via a more stable locator - ideally, an element with an ID= attribute.
I am taking a class on using Octave for machine learning algorithms, and as part of the assignments, they provide a series of .m files to build upon with our own code as well as to run for submission credit through the auto-grader. My problem is that the .m files load perfectly fine in a regular text editor program like Atom or Notepad, but in Octave, the files are best described as nonsense, and thus will not run in the console. If I open the files in a regular editor and copy/paste over the crazy into Octave, it seems to save it and reopen fine. But, I have close to 20 files for the first project alone, and this solution is untenable in the long run. I have a screenshot of how it's loading. Is there some setting I need to change? Uninstall/reinstall Octave? I'm new to Octave and the Octave GUI, and I'm striking out with Google for a solution. I am using version 6.2.0. Thank you for any help/advice!
screenshot of how octave is loading my .m files
Update: I responded to this in a comment below, but I tried loading it another way into Octave GUI and received the following error: ">> error: load: unable to determine file format of 'C:/Users/sophi/documents/octave/assignment_1/computeCost.m" This tracks for me because it makes sense why it would open the files in such a weird way. It's simply not sure what they are. However, I created my own simple functions from scratch to test, saved them as .m files, and was able to run them perfectly fine. I'm including one of the files below. Maybe there's a key in the formatting of the files offered by the class which is impacting Octave's ability to process it correctly?
function plotData(x, y)
%PLOTDATA Plots the data points x and y into a new figure
% PLOTDATA(x,y) plots the data points and gives the figure axes labels of
% population and profit.
figure; % open a new figure window
% ====================== YOUR CODE HERE ======================
% Instructions: .... goes on about assignment
% ============================================================
end
MOST RECENT UPDATE: The plot thickens. Yesterday, I was able to open the files I created and run them in the Octave environment, and I (wrongly) assumed they would still work today. They are doing the same stupid thing as the files included by the course. I checked inside preferences for the editor, and it says it is loading and saving them as IBM273 if that helps. Thank you for everyone has pitched in ideas. I really appreciate it!
It was 100% the encoding. I thought it was strange it was saving/loading in IBM273, so I switched it to UTF-8. Almost all the files are working now. The only ones that aren't are the ones I was trying to copy/paste yesterday to see what was going on with the load problems and the basic new problems I wrote. So I deleted everything, redownloaded, and set the default UTF-8 going forward and voila! Solved! Thanks again!
If you want to open a .m file in octave, Try this solution
It is necessary to declare a current directory before saving a file, loading a file, or running an M-file. By default, unless you edit the Octave shortcut, the current directory will be .../Octave/work. After you start Octave, change the current directory by either using the toolbar at the left-hand side of the screen, or entering the path in the bar at the top.
To open an .m file, you can use file -> open, or type
open filename
I have been asked to update a system where header information gets injected into a tif via a 3rd party console application. I don't need to worry about that bit.
The part I have been asked to look at it the merge process that generates the header information.
The current file generated by the process is assumed as correct, before I make any changes, so I want to add this as an approved result, from that I can then check that the changes I make will alter the file as expected.
I thought this would be a good opportunity to look at using ApprovalTests
The problem I have is that for what ever reason the links to the videos are considered corruptible (Possibly show me kittens jumping into boxes or something, which will stop me working, which ironically means I slow down my work done because I cannot see any help videos).
What I have been looking at is the Approvals.Verify and Approvals.VerifyFile extensions.
But what appears to be happening is confusing me.
using VerifyFile creates a received file, but the contents of the file are just a line the name of the file I have asked it to verify.
using Verify(new FileInfo("FileNameHere")) does not appear to generate the received file that I need to flag as approved, but the test does return saying that it cannot find the approved tif file.
I am probably using VerifyFile completely wrong and might be looking at using Verify wrong as well.
useful info?
Might be useful to know, that as this is a legacy application, running as a windows service, I have wrapped the service in a harness that allows me to call the routines, so the files are physically being written elsewhere on the machine outside of my control (well there is a config, but the return of the service I call generates a file in a fixed location if it is successful). I have tried copying that into the Unit Test project, but that doesn't appear to help.
Verify(File) and VerifyFile(string) are both meant to verify an existing file. As such they merely setting the received file to the file you pass in. You will still need to move/approval/create the approved file.
Here is the pseudo code and process.
[UseReporter(typeof(DiffReporter), typeof(ClipboardReporter)]
public void TestTiff()
{
string tif = YourProcessToCreateTifFile();
Approvals.VerifyFile(tif);
}
[Note: if you don't have an image diff installed, like TortoiseDiff, you might want to use the FileLauncherReporter]
Run this, once you get the result, move the file over by pasting your clipboard into a cmd window.
It will move the temporary tif to your test directory with the name ClassName.TestTiff.approved.tif
After that the test should pass until something changes.
Happy Testing!
My task list pad is filled with old //Todo comment tasks that have been parsed out of the code. Unfortunately the files they refer to have long since gone and the tasks are hanging around like zombies. Deleting each task simply throws an error that the file is missing. How can I manually force a complete cleanout of the tasks list so it can reparse? I had a quick look at the source code for this part of MD but I didn't see anything obvious.
I'd suggest you file a bug.
However, for a quick workaround, try deleting the code completion database caches. On Mac you can find them in ~/Library/Caches/MonoDevelop-3.0/DerivedData, and on Windows they're in AppData\Local\MonoDevelop-3.0\Cache\DerivedData.