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#208887 - 2014-05-14 02:34 PM Dropbox Status
Allen Allen KiX Supporter Registered: 2003-04-19 Posts: 4572 Loc: USA	I have a need to get the status of Dropbox, ie Idle, Synching, etc. As far as I can tell, Dropbox does not offer any method to get this information directly. I just happened to find the following information at the AutoIT forums, and wonder if anyone has any ideas how we could use this with kix? http://www.autoitscript.com/forum/topic/142644-getread-dropbox-status/ _________________________ (... better days ahead)
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#208888 - 2014-05-14 02:36 PM Re: Dropbox Status [Re: Allen]
Allen Allen KiX Supporter Registered: 2003-04-19 Posts: 4572 Loc: USA	Well, the dll they refer to, is no longer available for download, so this may have become much harder. $\:\($ _________________________ (... better days ahead)
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#208889 - 2014-05-14 04:01 PM Re: Dropbox Status [Re: Allen]
Allen Allen KiX Supporter Registered: 2003-04-19 Posts: 4572 Loc: USA	Here is another thread where it appears someone had it working until dropbox updated the client. The author then used autoit to check the status, but I don't know where to start to try to convert it. https://forums.dropbox.com/topic.php?id=29075&page=2&replies=4 Arend, have you messed with getting icons from the tray with dynawrapper or is there a way to use autoit script in com? _________________________ (... better days ahead)
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#208891 - 2014-05-14 10:08 PM Re: Dropbox Status [Re: Allen]
ShaneEP ShaneEP MM club member Registered: 2002-11-29 Posts: 2127 Loc: Tulsa, OK	I think the key is in converting the binary values from the IconStreams value into text. It contains the tool tip display text, which could tell you what dropbox is doing. Here is one I found in vbs that at least displays the text. Just not sure how to convert it to kix. Code: const HKEY_CURRENT_USER = &H80000001 Set oReg=GetObject("winmgmts:{impersonationLevel=impersonate}!\\.\root\default:StdRegProv") strKeyPath = "Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\TrayNotify" strValueName = "IconStreams" oReg.GetBinaryValue HKEY_CURRENT_USER,strKeyPath,strValueName,dwValue WScript.Echo RegBinaryToString(dwValue) function RegBinaryToString(arrValue) strInfo="" for i=0 to ubound(arrValue) if arrValue(i)<>0 then strInfo=strInfo & chr(arrValue(i)) next RegBinaryToString=strInfo end function Oh, and the location of the IconStreams data seems to differ with the operating system. This code was made to work on XP. Edited by ShaneEP (2014-05-14 10:09 PM)
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#208894 - 2014-05-15 01:17 AM

Re: Dropbox Status [Re: ShaneEP]

Allen

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Registered: 2003-04-19
Posts: 4572
Loc: USA

Thanks Shane... I did a reg search and found the following path on Win8.1, but this returned nothing but garbage. Did you actually run the script on xp? If so, what id it return?

Code:

const HKEY_CURRENT_USER = &H80000001

Set oReg=GetObject("winmgmts:{impersonationLevel=impersonate}!\\.\root\default:StdRegProv")

'strKeyPath = "Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\TrayNotify"
strKeyPath = "Software\Classes\Local Settings\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\TrayNotify"


strValueName = "IconStreams"

oReg.GetBinaryValue HKEY_CURRENT_USER,strKeyPath,strValueName,dwValue

WScript.Echo RegBinaryToString(dwValue)

function RegBinaryToString(arrValue)  
 strInfo=""  
  for i=0 to ubound(arrValue)  
   if arrValue(i)<>0 then strInfo=strInfo & chr(arrValue(i))  
  next  
 RegBinaryToString=strInfo  
end function

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#208895 - 2014-05-15 01:19 AM Re: Dropbox Status [Re: Allen]
Allen Allen KiX Supporter Registered: 2003-04-19 Posts: 4572 Loc: USA	Lonk, might be a few more tweaks that need to be made... see the errors in Shanes code? and in my post, while I realize it is vbscript, it removed the single quote i had in front of the commented out first strKeyPath. _________________________ (... better days ahead)
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#208897 - 2014-05-15 03:24 AM Re: Dropbox Status [Re: Allen]
ShaneEP ShaneEP MM club member Registered: 2002-11-29 Posts: 2127 Loc: Tulsa, OK	Yea I ran it on XP, it seemed to get all the info with a few random chars mixed in. Looked like it would work well enough though. I just tried it on my win 8.1, and got mostly garbage as well. The info was in clear text in win xp when looking at it in regedit...but appears to be a bit obfuscated in win 8. Go figure.
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#208899 - 2014-05-15 12:59 PM Re: Dropbox Status [Re: Allen]
Lonkero Lonkero KiX Master Guru Registered: 2001-06-05 Posts: 22346 Loc: OK	Yea Allen. I know exactly what happened again. the board decided to modify my HTML again. _________________________ ! download KiXnet
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#208902 - 2014-05-15 01:36 PM Re: Dropbox Status [Re: Lonkero]
Lonkero Lonkero KiX Master Guru Registered: 2001-06-05 Posts: 22346 Loc: OK	guys, why you use wmi instead of readvalue()? that long vbs instead of simple kixtart that works for xp, win7 and win8? Code: $aKeyPath = "Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\TrayNotify","Software\Classes\Local Settings\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\TrayNotify" $regVal = readvalue("HKCU\"+$aKeyPath[0],"IconStreams") + readvalue("HKCU\"+$aKeyPath[1],"IconStreams") $regval ? get $ _________________________ ! download KiXnet
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#208904 - 2014-05-15 03:03 PM Re: Dropbox Status [Re: Lonkero]
Allen Allen KiX Supporter Registered: 2003-04-19 Posts: 4572 Loc: USA	Just testing the vbs that Shane found before going to the effort of converting it. _________________________ (... better days ahead)
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#208905 - 2014-05-15 03:15 PM Re: Dropbox Status [Re: Allen]
Allen Allen KiX Supporter Registered: 2003-04-19 Posts: 4572 Loc: USA	Just tested your code Lonk, and it returns a mess of data. Any idea what to do with it, so that it spits out something useful? (I'm not asking you to do it, but just give me a direction.) _________________________ (... better days ahead)
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#208907 - 2014-05-15 06:22 PM Re: Dropbox Status [Re: Allen]
Lonkero Lonkero KiX Master Guru Registered: 2001-06-05 Posts: 22346 Loc: OK	well, given that I refuse to use dropbox, someone who uses it needs to read the value to a text file for example, when: a) dropbox is not in the taskbar b) when it is but not synced c) when it is synced _________________________ ! download KiXnet
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#208908 - 2014-05-15 09:54 PM Re: Dropbox Status [Re: Lonkero]
Allen Allen KiX Supporter Registered: 2003-04-19 Posts: 4572 Loc: USA	I guesss I wasn't specific eh? The VBS above appears to get a array of binary values (ArrValue) and convert it to a string. Your code appears to get a string of binary data. Any idea how to convert that so it is something besides a lump of data? _________________________ (... better days ahead)
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#208909 - 2014-05-16 12:39 AM Re: Dropbox Status [Re: Allen]
Lonkero Lonkero KiX Master Guru Registered: 2001-06-05 Posts: 22346 Loc: OK	read my above post. _________________________ ! download KiXnet
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#208918 - 2014-05-16 05:33 PM

Re: Dropbox Status [Re: Lonkero]

ShaneEP Offline

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Registered: 2002-11-29
Posts: 2127
Loc: Tulsa, OK

This works on XP...But it takes 10-15 seconds to complete. And still not sure it'll work as well on win 8.

Code:

$regVal = readvalue("HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer TrayNotify","IconStreams") + readvalue("HKCU\Software\Classes\Local Settings\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\TrayNotify","IconStreams")

$nul = messagebox(RegBinaryToString($regval),"",0)

function RegBinaryToString($values)
   $strInfo = ""
   for $i=1 to Len($values) step 2
      $value = SubStr($values,$i,2)
      if $value<>0
         $strInfo=$strInfo + chr(Val("&"+$value))
      endif
   next  
   $RegBinaryToString=$strInfo
EndFunction

Edited by ShaneEP (2014-05-16 08:09 PM)

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#208920 - 2014-05-16 06:03 PM Re: Dropbox Status [Re: ShaneEP]
Lonkero Lonkero KiX Master Guru Registered: 2001-06-05 Posts: 22346 Loc: OK	Shane, nevermind. Edited by Lonkero (2014-05-16 06:14 PM) _________________________ ! download KiXnet
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#208921 - 2014-05-16 06:17 PM Re: Dropbox Status [Re: Lonkero]
Lonkero Lonkero KiX Master Guru Registered: 2001-06-05 Posts: 22346 Loc: OK	change your readvalue to: Code: $regVal = readvalue("HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer TrayNotify","IconStreams") + readvalue("HKCU\Software\Classes\Local Settings\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\TrayNotify","IconStreams") and at least it will read correct also on win8 _________________________ ! download KiXnet
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#208922 - 2014-05-16 08:09 PM Re: Dropbox Status [Re: Lonkero]
ShaneEP ShaneEP MM club member Registered: 2002-11-29 Posts: 2127 Loc: Tulsa, OK	Ah yea forgot to add that back in. Edited the above code.
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#208923 - 2014-05-16 08:10 PM Re: Dropbox Status [Re: Lonkero]
Allen Allen KiX Supporter Registered: 2003-04-19 Posts: 4572 Loc: USA	At least with the key provided for Win8, I'm getting mangled results. I'm going to see if I can find another key in the reg for Win8. Curious Shane, what do the results look like on XP? Thanks for your help thus far. _________________________ (... better days ahead)
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#208924 - 2014-05-16 08:18 PM Re: Dropbox Status [Re: Allen]
Lonkero Lonkero KiX Master Guru Registered: 2001-06-05 Posts: 22346 Loc: OK	yes, I want to know what the stream looks like as well. both binary and string. my take on it is, we can make this way better, if we actually get an understanding how it works. not the whole stream needs to be processed, for one. _________________________ ! download KiXnet
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