Luke

Looks like I didn't make it complicated enough then... I just figured out that in that last model if a sub-task failed there was nothing at the end to force it to go back again. SO... How about this one? It's getting really complicated so I had to splash it with some color this time.

I've been giving this a lot of thought. Things need to be split up a lot, don't they? With subs inside of subs possibly inside of other subs? And the Check wouldn't have to be in seperate subs though, it could simply be at the FRONT of every sub, even though you can't know what the success message is until the end so programming it is never linear... So how about this model: For the overall concepts like "upgrading all plugins" there would be an overall sub with run-subs at the top of the script keeping order like I said before. ...But secondary subs (Like upgrading each individual

Hey Programmers... Help out a programming newbie, would you, and let me know what the best "Flow" for making long, complex bots is... I already know to make subs around independant chunks of functionality, and the put their run-subs at the top in order like Aaron's films all allude to... But there is obviously more to it than that now. For instance, I have just completed a 3 MB ubot with about 20 subroutines in it, each a specific task. when condensed, it is nothign more than 20 run subs and then 20 subs. When I run this site on ten target websites (The bot just basically tweaks wo

Loop? Then wouldn't it keep going through his many-stepped process? How about a While instead?

Thanks John. In the end I went with the free Zoho Creator. It was a little tricky to figure out at first, because they iframed their login and their search function is quirky, but in the end it was the best decision I've made since I purchased uBot. Zoho gives you three completely secure databases that you can build out pretty much as large as you could ever hope for, all for free... Each DB can have lots of different Views and forms too, but for my botting use I have just made one view that is editable on the same page as it is displayed, and all my bots now go in there and grab variable

Thanks Seth! I'll be watching for it.

Aarrrgghh.... Mine won't compile either now... Just like yours it stays blank when opened after the compile. :( :( So basically what is being said here is that uBot can only create tiny little apps like "Go here & do that one thing." Once you start stacking them they become unstable & inflate automatically, at least in the new version. Is that about right? My business is at a standstill because of this, unless I go back to a much earlier version, which by now I've been using 3.3 so long I'll have a LEARNING CURVE again... Please tell Seth how worried I am about this err

No!!!!! I just recreated the entire bot from scratch, cutting and pasting over only SUBs. Yes, I kept a lot in subs but that left some outside them too, all replaced from scratch. And the size of this new file is: 8,411 kb!!! I'm logging a ticket... This is getting insane! Please get on this tonight Alex... I'm really screwed without being able to edit this bot! -Luke

Then maybe you can answer this for me... Why is it that every time I Edit this big bot, even if it is just to Delete nodes, and save it again, the size goes UP on my bot's size limit, sometimes by several hundred kilobytes! Just to test this out, minutes ago, I opened my monsterbot which was showing in windows as: 7,409 kb today. (Before ver 3.3 I believe it was only 3,600 kb in size.) I went into the first script and deleted 1 single node, then saved it before closing. It then showed in windows as 7,628 kb immediately! Plus, the time it takes to open this bot has gone from under 2 minut

I had considered using VAs/outsourcing myself before grabbing uBot... Nowadays I keep finding new ways to do more with ubot to the point of wondering if I'll ever need them. There is even a way to have a computer automatically open and run ubots, pressing the play button on a schedule you set, so really, unless it requires using a software program, I can't find a reason to use VAs at all now. -Of course i'm not quite there yet, I need to hone my botting skills quite a bit more to know for sure. Cheers, Luke

When I make a single-script, short, single-purpose bot, the .ubot file is about 19kb to 30 kb in size. It takes about a minute to open though on my Vista 32-bit PC, just openeing a blank ubot window takes that amount of time, every time. I can run a few windows at once though, usually without crashing. I've got this one bot though, That I've been working on since the beginning, it's Huge. 6.5 Megs and growing, with 6 separate scripts in it and almost 100 variables now! It's taking me a good 2 minutes to launch on a good day. It fails to load totally on bad days. Basically, I think

Hi Abs, It sounds like you're not putting the rest of your commands IN the sub-window node. When you use the is sub window node, EVERYTHING that you want done through that new window must be inside the same macro-node, making it look just like the node for a loop. When used properly, they should pop open and then close really quickly! The only time I have ever found a use for the in sub window command is when I was doing a long process on one site and then needed to go grab something really quick on another site before using it on the first site again... Like validating your email add

I just wanted to say that 3.306 Rocks! It seems faster than even 3.305, Fixed my scraping bug that I've been down for a half month from, and it includes a helpful little Change that makes it so that when a script errors out, it turns the Node that gave the error bright red for you... Cant miss it. Thanks Seth and Team... Your hard work is appreciated!

Seconded!

Sweet idea! I've got quite a few ideas for apps that need to alert me of their need for input... If this can't be done yet please add support for it! A simple windows wav is all we need, MP3s would be better though for size concerns...

Awesome, Andy! Just the kind of thing I'm looking for. For $49 It would seem to be priced pretty well too, so I'll give the trial a run first and let everyone know here later how well it can be botted-around-in then. Thanks again! Luke

-Watch out Frank, the NSA is probably listening! I came the other route totally, making my cash in fits and bursts as an affiliate/IM/WAH marketer for years now, but I'm at the point where every single second I work must be for re-occurring profits... I'm done with this short-term clickbank crap... Might as well have a J.O.B.! So I set out recently to stop paying coders & developer companies for what I need and do it fully custom for myself. With uBot and Wordpress together I can really do that, make every node I create keep making me money for life. So I'll be watching your

I've spent more than my fair share on programming on Rentacoder over the past 5 years... Perhaps to some of you guys! I eventually realized that finding a program that can help me automate is far, far better... Because I'll always be tweaking my needs to fit my biz model at the time. Which is precisely the reason I'm a uBot customer today.

Thanks Frank! That helped a lot. In fact it still doesn't make perfect sense to me in part because I didn't check anything yet, but After tweaking your bot above ever-so-slightly I was able to make it work great. Just a slight change: Cheers! Luke

Hmm... So all inside a loop, I need to set $next_list_item to a variable like #tempcat, and then Evaluate if #tempcat is present on the page? Or do I need to scrape all of the categories 1 by one in another, inset loop and evaluate if each one is equal to #tempcat? This is the part that's driving me mad... Never had to match items on a page before to other things... Much less check boxes beside the matches. So after setting #tempcat, how to match it to a catagory?

Let's say you have a %category list with Apples, Balls, and Cats on it, which happen to be the exact same three categories for your wordpress blog. (Yeah this list made those cats in the previous step.) In a Wordpress new post screen, there is a list of the blog's existing categories on the right-hand side with checkboxes next to each, for you to assign posts to. So, assuming you grab the category name as $next_list_item from the list, how does one choose that same $list_item (not advancing the list) out of the wp categories, and then check that box beside the correct one? Thanks in adva

Thread Sounds like a real CPU sucker... Hard to imagine two windows open @ once going through separate functions... Can my PC even handle this? Looking forward to a film or updated commando guide on the new functions myself. The guide is getting so out of date I wonder if there is anything in it that is relevant anymore! (Perhaps Delay? Wait Finish?)

By the way, Alex & Seth... I've got to say that the 3.3+ version(s) of uBot makes drop-downs so very easy that even I want to give you props on the re-design. Great job! I realize that the things we're complaining about these days so much (like the missing empty nodes, etc.) are just a temporary inconvenience, so just in case no one has said it outright, there are many GREAT things like the combined nodes that both choose and fill forms, and this drop down, and lots of other little structural or toolbox-based things that make 3.3 a lot faster and easier for newbies to learn. Thank you

Hi Sputnik, thanks for writing. I've looked at quite a few MySql/PHP solutions and they basically just don't work if you don't shell out the big bucks. -Or they aren't supported, at least. Even Zoho Docs seems to realize this and has adjusted their payment plans to best capitalize on it! You said it above, "you just need to be able to code the php". -Well if I could I wouldn't be spending all my cash on Visual Scripting Programs like UBot. At this point I'd be willing to settle for a simple program that lets me use an HTML form (Yes, I can program that, at least) to insert data into a

So far I've checked out about a dozen different ways to store large, searchable, bot-able amounts of data online, so I can use it as both a place for my bots to update my records and a place for my bots to go and get information about my onling projects like sites I'm promoting. I most liked a software that makes websites built around databases, called DBQwiksite, but it is completely unsupported and I couldn't get it to actually do what it said it can do. In the cloud there is Zoho Creator, which would be awesome but it has an iFrame I can't get past @ login, and for some reason my bot ca