Flute and Win95

[Kevin Justie]

I've been using a variation of the Flute script that's been posted on
Web4Lib (http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/Web4Lib/archive/9602/0014.html) to
time out Netscape, and have had no problems under Windows 3.1.  I'm now
trying to make it work on a Win95 PC and am running into several problems:

1.  I changed the Flute script to click at the location of Netscape's Home
button, but even though the coordinates don't change in the script, it
clicks in slightly different locations (different enough to frequently miss
the Home button) depending on what web page is currently displayed. (I
resorted to a mouse click because I couldn't get a CTRL+O or keyboard
manipulation of the menubar (using ALT) to work at all.)

2.  It times out after the specified interval, and tries to click on the
Home button, regardless of whether there's been any mouse movement or not;
in other words, no matter what you're doing, every 5 minutes it's going to
take you back to the home page (when it clicks in the right spot, that is).

3.  It fails to recognize when the mouse is at location 0,0  with the
shiftkey down, which is the "code" the script is supposed to use to halt
itself.


Is anyone using a version of this Flute script with Win95, and have you
experienced these problems?  Does anyone have another Flute script that
does work in Win95?  Is anyone using a different macro or scripting program
to time out a browser back to a specified page?

Thanks for your help!


Kevin Justie
Head of Technical and Automated Services
Morton Grove Public Library, Morton Grove, IL
(847) 965-4220
kjustie at mgk.nslsilus.org
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