Sometimes I use the command ie.visible = False which hides the window even though it still exists.
How can I close all the hidden windows ?
My actual solution is to log out from my computer's session and log in again...there is probably a better way to do this.
I tried Set ie = Nothing or ie.Quit but it doesn't affect the hidden windows since when I count them with
Set objShell = CreateObject("Shell.Application")
IE_count = objShell.Windows.Count
they are still there.
Any ideas on how to do this?
I created a couple of hidden internet explorer windows and did a before and after count of the open internet explorer windows and the below code seems to work:
Public Sub CLOSE_HIDDEN_IE()
Dim IE As SHDocVw.InternetExplorer
Dim SH As SHDocVw.ShellWindows
Set SH = New SHDocVw.ShellWindows
For Each IE In SH
If IE.Visible = False Then
IE.Quit
End If
Next
Set IE = Nothing
Set SH = Nothing
End Sub
The code loops through the open internet explorer window and closes the ones which aren't visible.
Happy to help if you need anything.
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I wrote a vbscript program to automatically join Google Meet sessions, with the code that is required to enter the meet generated based on the date and time. Whenever I run the program, it opens in the background of the computer in infinite windows(repeatedly opening a new instance of Google Meet every second). The keystrokes that are supposed to be directed toward Internet Explorer are instead sent to whatever is active. The line of code that is supposed to make it the active window are not working: WshShell.AppActivate "Internet Explorer" I believe that this below section is what is causing problems. Any help is greatly appreciated!
option explicit
dim webbrowser, WshShell
set webbrowser = createobject("internetexplorer.application")
set WshShell = createobject("Wscript.Shell")
webbrowser.statusbar = false
webbrowser.menubar = false
webbrowser.toolbar = false
webbrowser.visible = true
webbrowser.navigate("https://meet.google.com/")
wscript.sleep(3000)
WshShell.AppActivate Internet Explorer
WshShell.sendkeys "{enter}"
I don't know why did you use sendkeys ?
You should write something like that :
Option explicit
dim webbrowser
set webbrowser = createobject("internetexplorer.application")
webbrowser.statusbar = false
webbrowser.menubar = false
webbrowser.toolbar = false
webbrowser.visible = true
webbrowser.navigate("https://meet.google.com/")
Do while webbrowser.readystate <> 4
wscript.sleep 200
Loop
Within a frontend (feel), I need to call a batch file which will close the FE (necessary to prevent it from crashing), do some work and call the FE again.
Anyway, when the FE will be called again, it won't have focus for user input.
At this point, I wrote a VBScript, to put at the end of the batch file, after the FE is called, in order to get focus back on it:
Dim bWindowFound
Dim WShell
Set WShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
Do
bWindowFound = WShell.AppActivate("Feel")
If (bWindowFound = -1) Then
WShell.SendKeys ("{ENTER}")
Else
WScript.Sleep 1000
End If
Loop Until bWindowFound = -1
'WScript.Echo "Feel found, quitting ... "
Set WShell = Nothing
WScript.Quit(0)
What happens is that the feel window will blink in the application bar but it won't come in front of all the others (so no input can be provided).
The only solution would be to uncomment the following line at the end of the script:
WScript.Echo "Feel found, quitting ... "
This way it will work: I'll quickly see a pop up window saying "Feel found, quitting ... " and the feel window will come in front of all the others with focus on it.
Unfortunately this is not feasible since I don't want to see any window and, above all, I don't want to have to close it manually!
I want to open word document in Excel and bring the word document to front.
I have tried the solution in: Open Word Document and Bring to Front
However, this solution only works in Windows 8 and Windows 2012 server environment.
The end result is that I would like to have a solution that also works in Windows 10 environment.
Thank you for your help
Does the following work for you?
Sub openword()
Dim Wapp As Object
Dim Wdoc As Object
Set Wapp = CreateObject("Word.Application")
With Wapp
.Visible = True
Set Wdoc = .documents.Open("path")
.Activate
End With
End Sub
I have created a code that will open Internet Explorer, navigate to a site, prompt for credentials and a date range, and then save the data (theoretically) to a text file.
Everything works except for saving the data. When I click their export button, it pops up a new window that is untitled (so I can't focus on the window by name) and when I try to save it to a .txt file it saves the 1st webpage that is still focused, not the popup window.
How do I shift focus to the popup window/save the popup to a text file?
Unfortunately I can't provide much code, but here is the code I am using to save to a text file:
TEXT = objIE.Document.Body.InnerText
Set fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
Set ts = fso.OpenTextFile("Banorte.txt", 2, True)
ts.Write TEXT
ts.Close
Also, I don't have an option to download any software to help me with this. I am also not opposed to using a different language if need by, or call a separate script.
Thank you for taking a look!
------EDIT------
Here is some additional code, the site is banorte.com, this is the code that runs after I log in.
And by popup, I mean it opens up a new window in internet explorer, but it is not like a tab, that has a name and could be added to the parent window. It is a standalone.
objIE.Document.getElementsByName("btnEntrar").Item(0).Click
While objIE.Busy
WScript.Sleep 100
Wend
objIE.Document.getElementsByName("ctl00$Contentplaceholder1$btnConsultar").Item(0).Click
WScript.Sleep 5000
objIE.document.parentWindow.execScript "javascript:__doPostBack('ctl00$Contentplaceholder1$grdCuentasCheques$ctl02$ctl00','')"
BEGDATE= InputBox("Please enter the beginning date DD/MM/YYYY:","Please provide additional info.")
objIE.Document.getElementById("ctl00_Contentplaceholder1_ucPeriodoFechas_WucFechaInicial_txtFecha").value = BEGDATE
ENDDATE= InputBox("Please enter the ending date DD/MM/YYYY:","Please provide additional info.")
objIE.Document.getElementById("ctl00_Contentplaceholder1_ucPeriodoFechas_WucFechaFinal_txtFecha").value = ENDDATE
objIE.Document.getElementsByName("ctl00$Contentplaceholder1$btnConsultar").Item(0).Click
WScript.Sleep 2000
Issue is after this command:
objIE.Document.getElementsByName("ctl00$Contentplaceholder1$btnExportarSaldos").Item(0).Click
Do Until objIE.readystate = 4
WScript.Sleep 10
loop
TEXT = objIE.Document.Body.InnerText
Set fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
Set ts = fso.OpenTextFile("Banorte.txt", 2, True)
ts.Write TEXT
ts.Close
objIE.Navigate "https://nbem.banorte.com/NBXI/Corporativa/Cerrar.aspx"
ObjIE.quit
In the past I've used the script below to detect if an active window with the title "Remote Desktop" is or isn't active. If it isn't active the script will auto launch or make it active again.
Question: Is there a way to detect if a window is active and auto close it? I'm setting up a kiosk in chrome kiosk mode on a Windows 7 machine for our office. The main page launches a selected Google form in a pop-up window. The form confirmation page has the title "Thank You!" in the title bar. Is there a way for the script to auto detect this window and close it? This would be nice because the user would see that their response was submitted (for a second or two) but if they did not close the window it would not still be open when the next user goes to use the kiosk.
Another option might be if there is a way to use a Google script on the form to program the submit button to close the window. I'm not sure if that's possible.
Option Explicit
'On Error Resume Next
Dim objShell
Set objShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
Do
If (objShell.AppActivate("Window Title Here") = False) Then
objShell.Run "mstsc.exe " & chr(34) & "c:\scripts\Remote Desktop.rdp" & chr(34)
WScript.Sleep 5000
Else
WScript.Sleep 3000
End If
Loop
If the window I need closed is active and then the following script is ran the window will close. It's almost like I need to piece the top and bottom code here together to achieve what I need, but I'm not sure how.
Dim oShell
Set oShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
If oShell.AppActivate("Untitled - Notepad") Then
WScript.Sleep 500
oShell.SendKeys "%{F4}"
End If
I'm trying to find a script that will run on startup and wait for a window with a specific title to open and then close it once it is detected. It would be even better if I could control how long the window remains open once detected, but if I could just get it to close that would suffice.
I think I've found a good solution. I found this post and modified the answer. Does anyone see any issues with this?
' Will loop forever checking for the message every half a second
' When it finds the message it will close the window
Set wshShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
Do
ret = wshShell.AppActivate("Untitled - Notepad")
If ret = True Then
wshShell.SendKeys "%{F4}" 'ALT F4
End If
WScript.Sleep 500
Loop
Set wshShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
Do
ret = wshShell.AppActivate("Untitled - Notepad")
If ret = True Then
wshShell.SendKeys "%{F4}" 'ALT F4
End If
WScript.Sleep 500
Loop
The only trouble i see is the Alt+F4 will sequentially close windows until it will want to shut down windows itself. kinda makes me nervous even though this script will only detect the name you give it.
I tried the script and it works fine but what about using the escape key for certain windows?
The other thing i do not like is this is always running and taking resources. I slowed down the loop so it will at least be paused in the background most of the time..