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#347 - Support use of dynamic variables in live mode #350

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  • support use of dynamic variables in live mode
  • show error message for JS errors instead of exit

details at - #347

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merge v4.0 - RPA Stable Release
Updates for Chrome popup, dynamic wait, PHP 7 notice, Japanese language definitions
aisingapore#289 - enclose wait step with casper.then() in order to make dynamic wait delay in scope for access

aisingapore#295 - PHP 7 issues warning message which is not observed with PHP 5. this change removes the warning by avoiding an empty $repo_data[0]. ie increment repo_count only if there is already data in the array, otherwise discard header and start filling from $repo_data[0]. For the datatable (custom_csv_file portion), don't drop header as there is a dummy [iteration] header to let users reference current datatable iteration number.
merge French and German language definitions
- support use of dynamic variables in live mode
- show error message for JS errors instead of exit

details at - aisingapore#347
- support use of dynamic variables in live mode
- show error message for JS errors instead of exit

details at - kelaberetiv#347
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kensoh commented Mar 3, 2019

Hi @ryzalk I created a PR to address issue #347, please help to merge with 'squash and merge' to make it cleaner on the master repo commit history. This PR allows the use of dynamic variables in live mode, and also shows error message when JS errors are encountered in user's live code, instead of previous behaviour where TagUI exits abruptly. Thanks to @CJohnDesign for raising.

@kensoh kensoh merged commit 9c96a2c into aisingapore:master Mar 19, 2019
@kensoh kensoh deleted the live_dynamic_variables branch March 19, 2019 16:57
@kensoh kensoh changed the title Support use of dynamic variables in live mode #347 - Support use of dynamic variables in live mode Mar 30, 2019
kensoh added a commit to tebelorg/TagUI that referenced this pull request Apr 8, 2019
A new release of TagUI. The goal will be to create packaged installations of the changes, bug fixes and enhancements since August 2018, as well as the corresponding documentation updates. Notable changes include PRs from users on Japanese (by @ariarijp), German (@derhackler) and French (@AmirJaballah) TagUI translation engine (prior to that only English and Chinese is vetted manually by me).

And the recent PRs I sent on aisingapore#350 enabling dynamic variables in live mode, aisingapore#352 enabling datatable in test mode, aisingapore#371 keyboard step for sending complex keystrokes to the screen, aisingapore#369 mouse step for low-level mouse down and up actions on the screen, aisingapore#366 enabling interacting with UI elements by specifying their (x,y) coordinates, aisingapore#362 mouse_xy() / mouse_x() / mouse_y() helper functions, aisingapore#383 graceful error handling for unexpected and unhandled errors, aisingapore#385 enhancement to report option that has auditing and tracking capability.

Last, and most importantly, migration from SikuliX v1.1.3 to SikuliX v1.1.4. This is because in between the 2 versions there is a move from much older OpenCV and Tesseract to major new versions. Performance and accuracy (image finding and OCR from image to text) should improve. However, I would imagine the greater accuracy may cause the automation results of some use cases to be different, as more accurate text gets retrieved and more accurate image gets found. Ie, scripting base on somewhat imperfect anchors and placeholders can sometimes break when the anchors and placeholders improve and are no longer the same, if you know what I mean.

Due to this reason, this release will be a major release to v5.0 as users, particularly users of visual automation, are encouraged to validate that the new release with SikuliX v1.1.4 is still giving the kind of automation results they want, or make modifications if needed, before they migrate to the new TagUI release.
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…nCV & Tesseract) (#388)

Sending some PR(s) on a new release of TagUI. The goal will be to create packaged installations of the changes, bug fixes and enhancements since August 2018, as well as the corresponding documentation updates. Notable changes include PRs from users on Japanese, German and French (removed names otherwise will spam them with notification) TagUI translation engine (prior to that only English and Chinese is vetted manually by me).

And the recent PRs I sent on #350 enabling dynamic variables in live mode, #352 enabling datatable in test mode, #371 keyboard step for sending complex keystrokes to the screen, #369 mouse step for low-level mouse down and up actions on the screen, #366 enabling interacting with UI elements by specifying their (x,y) coordinates, #362 mouse_xy() / mouse_x() / mouse_y() helper functions, #383 graceful error handling for unexpected and unhandled errors, #385 enhancement to report option that has auditing and tracking capability, #387 ability to disable generation of .log .raw .js files by default

Last, and most importantly, migration from SikuliX v1.1.3 to SikuliX v1.1.4. This is because in between the 2 versions there is a move from much older OpenCV and Tesseract to major new versions. Performance and accuracy (image finding and OCR from image to text) should improve. However, I would imagine the greater accuracy may cause the automation results of some use cases to be different, as more accurate text gets retrieved and more accurate image gets found. Ie, scripting base on somewhat imperfect anchors and placeholders can sometimes break when the anchors and placeholders improve and are no longer the same, if you know what I mean.

Due to this reason, this release will be a major release to v5.0 as users, particularly users of visual automation, are encouraged to validate that the new release with SikuliX v1.1.4 is still giving the kind of automation results they want, or make modifications if needed, before they migrate to the new TagUI release.

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In addition, #387 disable logging and generation of .raw .js .log files after each run

Sending a PR that lets users switch the logging off by default.

The default TagUI behaviour is generating .raw (expansion of modules and subscripts), .js (generated JavaScript code), .log (log of what happened during the automation. This feature would probably be useful by default for developers. For business users, probably they would not be close enough to the nitty gritty of files to bother with these files.

However, there may be a use scenario where such logs are explicitly not wanted. Whether for the minimalist movement, save environment with non-excessive use of non-necessary storage or perhaps for privacy and security reasons.

With this PR, users only need to put a file tagui_no_logging (can be empty or has contents) in the tagui/src folder. When this file exists, TagUI will delete the .js .raw .log files after executing the script. Thus when `tagui flow` is run there won't be flow.js flow.log flow.raw after execution.
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