[thank you for the new shortcuts]

thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you

[Two desired Enhancements for ver 4]

+1 fo' sho'

[Is Ubot 4 production ready?]

Personally I was a little surprised to see it come out of beta when it did. I use Ubot 3 a lot and it helped me scale my business up so I have a ton of love for it but I can't seem to get anything done in Ubot 4. My gripe with it is that it hangs for minutes at a time in different places (sometimes when you select an element, other times on the simplest of things like a navigate node to page that's just a couple of Kb big) and sometimes it's behavior is inconsistent (sometimes it goes past Wait For Browser Event - Everything Loaded nodes like they weren't even there even though the page is clearly still loading... which of course messes up the rest of the script since elements that the bot expects aren't on the page yet) and then there's other weird stuff like text nodes that stop working... $search page nodes that error out on occasions when they should work, etc.

 

Now, I can't consistently replicate all that mess so I can't submit bug reports for them as such but I'm curious to see what everybody else here thinks about Ubot 4's production worthiness?

[Ubot's integrated browser]

Aaaah, yes! I got the "mium" part right

[Ubot's integrated browser]

Say, what was the library UBot was using for a browser? I keep thinking "Chromium" but that ain't it...

[UBot + IE9]

it's crazy fast! just wanted to put that out there

 

also helped me discover that the Skype IE plugin really slows the browser down (and UBot as a consequence, so if you have Skype installed, you might want to try disabling that for a speed boost even if you don't upgrade to IE9)

[I want to 'write to browser' in a sub window]

Run my script and then define useless for me.

 

<3

 

nothing to do with your script, I was merely remarking that 'wait for' and 'wait finish' don't work in a sub-window, same as 'run javascript'

 

it seems that 'wait for', 'wait finish' and 'run javascript' are all tied to the main window, which severely cripples the sub-window, making it almost useless

[I want to 'write to browser' in a sub window]

'wait for' and 'wait finish' also seem to be tied to the main window, which kinda makes sub windows close to useless, right?

[I want to 'write to browser' in a sub window]

while you're at it, run javascript in the sub window would also be pretty darn useful

[Mataining robots is a royal pain in the...]

It is? Are you serious?

 

I wonder why I have not heard about it?

 

I must contemplate this.

 

I don't think it is, nobody from ubot said it is

[Mataining robots is a royal pain in the...]

^ rly?

 

omg omg omg can anybody officially confirm it?

[Mataining robots is a royal pain in the...]

I do not understand your Enhancement suggestion. Would you mind breaking it down?

just a way to edit the ubot script with a text editor (ie. like with imacros)

 

hope that made more sense

 

i love the visual editor, but as your robots grow in complexity, it's just hell to navigate nodes and maintain them (once you start nesting nodes more than 3 levels deep it's teeth pulling time)

[Mataining robots is a royal pain in the...]

The visual interface thingy is great for putting robots together fast... not so much for maintaining them.

 

Switching between visual and some sort of text mode would make it that much more powerful!

[Switch Case statements]

I really hope so too! It's very important to add that, I think.

 

yes please!

[UTF-8 and UI Stat Monitor support in UI HTML]

pretty please!

[Feature Suggestion]

separate 'ui splash page' for each individual tab/bot

[Scraping the contents of a PDF and other shenanigans]

I need to pump PDFs through UBot but they need to be HTML first.

 

Do you guys know of any automated way to convert PDFs to HTML files?

 

Maybe an app I could call from the command line, etc...

[Shortcut for Play pause]

I'm not sure what you are asking for?

 

ie. Ctrl+P for Play/Pause ... keyboard shortcut, you know...

[how to click a button in Iframe]

what I ended up doing is using javascript to click the button inside the only iframe on the page

 

var iframe = document.getElementsByTagName("iframe")[0];
var inputs = iframe.contentWindow.document.getElementsByTagName("input");
for(var i=inputs.length-1; i>=0; i--) {
 if (inputs[i].name == "commit") {
   input_file = inputs[i];
   break;
 }
}
input_file.click();

 

being able to run javascript like that is a really powerful feature of UBot I think is not emphasized nearly enough

[how to click a button in Iframe]

Sorry to bump an old thread but I have a similar issue.

 

Lilly, your example has me a little confused. There's no field being chosen in your example... the iframe body just gets overridden. So the problem of actually clicking input fields or typing in them is still there. Or am I totally missing the point?