The Anatomy of UBot Studio 5
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Title Bar
The title bar simply displays the name of the software, UBot Studio, and the edition of UBot Studio the license holder has.
In this Example, the title bar displays "UBot Studio Developer Edition".
Menu Bar
The menu bar contains the following items:
File Menu: You can open a new bot project, save your current bot project, compile, or exit the program through this menu.
Edit Menu: Allows you to undo, redo, copy, cut, delete and paste within the scripting area. Also provides options for collapsing and expanding nodes in the scripting area as well as the option to search within the toolbox for commands and functions.
View Menu: Provides options to allow you move between the tool box and the bot bank. Also allows you to switch between code view and node view. The Debugger, the Web Inspector, Regex Builder, Spintax Editor, Scheduler, and the UI Editor are also located in the View menu.
Bot Menu: This menu contains only one bot property. It allows you to determine the delimiter of tables within your script.
Tools Menu: This menu provides options for adding plugins to UBot Studio, setting up a captcha service within your script and changing various options in UBot Studio ( general options, bot bank options and setting up your default form fields).
Help Menu: The help menu provides information about the software and which version the license holder is currently using. It also provides the script reference, access to the forum, the option to check to see if updates for UBot Studio are currently available and the options to install flash if needed.
Tool Bar
The tool bar contains the following buttons:
Bot Bank Button: Clicking the button will display or hide the Bot Bank.
ToolBox Button: Clicking the button will display or hide the ToolBox.
Search Box: Searches the toolbox for a specified command for function.
Code View Button: Changes the scripting area from Node View to Code View.
Run Button: Runs the script.
Run on Schedule Button: Allows you to schedule and run bots on specific dates and at specific times.
Pause Button: Pauses the script. Running a script after pressing the pause button will resume the process from the command the pause occurred on.
Stop Button: Stops the script.
Step Button: Step through the script, one command at a time.
Start Recording Button: Clicking the button creates a script based on actions within the browser, such as clicking links, selecting items from drop down menus and filling in fields.
Tool Box
The toolbox displays a list of all the commands and functions in UBot Studio. The toolbox also lists variables, lists and tables, plugin commands, custom functions, and custom commands.
New Script Button
The New Script Button will create a new script in a new tab. The scripts can be named or left untitled.
Scripting Area
The scripting area is where commands and functions are placed to create a script, which can then be run or compile to create a bot.
Browser
The browser allows interaction between the commands and functions, and the webpage being automated. Unlike normal browsers, right clicking an object in the browser will display a right click menu that allows you to interact with the object through clicking, navigating to the url the object is linked to, focusing on the object and many more.
Scroll Bar
The scroll bar is used to scroll through webpages.
Address Bar
Allows navigation to a specified url, as well as moving forward or backward on a webpage.
Script Tab with Name
The script contains all the commands and functions that come together to create a bot. It can be named or left untitled. There can be multiple tabs within one compiled bot.
