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Just wondered if anyone has come across this... I have a simple google serps scraper bot, but I am staying with IE8. I have a friend running a compiled version of this ubot, but he recently upgraded to IE9. My standard choosebyattribute grab of <A class=l onmousedown=*>*</A> to get to the results doesn't produce a match on his IE9. He just rolled back to IE8 and "perfecto!" all is well. Just wondered if anyone else has experienced this and if there is a more generic ChoosebyAttribute that works with all? Thx

Good idea. It would also be good to include er... "includes" in that comparison, and to know the pros and cons of all permutations. That thread should run for a while, but will be hugely enlightening! Thx guys, Simon

OK, It fails if the monitored variable is passed as a parameter. Like in attachment.UIMonitor.ubot Just trying to discover all the behaviours between subs/scripts/bots/includes - and deffo need more caffeine! Thx for the input guys. Simon

Thats exactly what I want! Ok, I'll go and find what I was doing wrong and update. Thx "It's all a learning curve"

I appreciate your effort , the above is safely copy/pasted - but my question is more about handling ui-stat-monitor variables (and any others) across scripts. In my testing, it seems that the ui is bound to a single script, so with one ui area, monitoring variables DURING execution of another script seems to not be possible. So imagine a master script with a ui, for example, setting the number of accounts to create... Then it does a "run script" passing MaxAccounts Within the child script, you create a loop to run MaxAccounts times You have a counter incrementing within this loop How ca

Sorry, I meant that the counter would be incremented INSIDE a loop within the child script. I don't think it would work, and even that it should work - black boxes being black boxes etc. But imagine the "lets create some email accounts" scenario you might set up a "num. accounts to generate" ui text box and variable, but these would be in your master script... You may then run a child script or a sub in the child script, passing the #num-accs as a parameter In the child script, you would... set #localcount to 0 while #localcount < #num-accs nav to sign up page create $account fi

Yes, this does - but what if the sub in the child script increments counters or pages, and I want to view these status fields in the ui?? If I put the ui stat in the sub, then it does update, but only if that tab/script has focus i.e. not from the master. If I don't change focus from the master, nada!

Still new at this, but I'm trying to organise my bots into multiple scripts and using run parameters. Trouble is, I'm setting (non local) vars in my master script, and running other scripts for my processing loops and the passed vars won't refresh the ui stat fields. The loops are functioning, and I've tried with the stat monitor declaration in both master and loop scripts. In the latter, I can see the ui updating, but only if I click on the loop script. Is there a good way to implement this monitoring via ui stat across scripts?