Macro Recording and Automating Windows with Macro Scheduler – Tips & News
I am pleased to announce that Macro Scheduler 10 is now available. If you’ve been keeping an eye on my blog or the forums you’ll probably already know about some of the great new features in this version: Faster, near-instant screen image recognition Powerful, easy-to-use, screen text capture commands – capture almost any text from […]
As I have mentioned previously, Macro Scheduler 10 introduces some powerful new commands for capturing screen text. In this post I aim to explain what kinds of text can be captured with these new commands and why there will always be some text that cannot be retrieved. First let’s look at how the existing functions, […]
A few days ago one of our customers reported an issue while trying to install msNet – Macro Scheduler Remote Controller. During install their virus scanner reported a virus in one of the files. I was quite sure it was a false positive as we check all our distributions with two well known anti-virus products. […]
Registered customers can now download Macro Scheduler 10 Beta.
I am so excited about the new features in Macro Scheduler 10 – coming January. I’m currently running a pre beta copy now. One of the most amazing improvements is the optimisation of the FindImagePos function. We’ve made a 30-50 fold speed increase. It is now almost instantaneous. Average time to locate a bitmap at […]
Something that comes up now and then is whether or not compiled Macro Scheduler macros can respond to hot-keys. Macro Scheduler itself lets you assign system-wide hot-keys to macros so that when you hit that key combination, no matter where you are in Windows, the macro will be fired. Some people want to be able […]
A short roundup of resources and ideas for using Macro Scheduler for system and software monitoring. Event Log Monitoring Here’s a tip showing how to create a script to monitor event log messages: http://www.mjtnet.com/usergroup/viewtopic.php?t=4256 Process/Service Monitoring This script demonstrates a function called IsProcessRunning to check if a specific process is running. Use it to create […]
I am pleased to announce our latest product, MacroScript Workflow Designer. With Workflow Designer you can create graphical workflows and add MacroScript (Macro Scheduler) code to actions and decisions. So you can draw flowcharts that actually work! The Workflow Designer is a great way to manage and organise large collections of interconnecting macros. Actions and […]
If you work regularly on large macro files you should consider using a version control system. Remember that time when you made a few small changes to that 2000 line macro and it stopped working and you spent ages trying to figure out what you did and get it working again, losing a lot of […]
A customer just reported this issue: http://www.mjtnet.com/usergroup/viewtopic.php?p=17969 Seems Kaspersky must be intercepting emulated keystrokes and is slowing their progress. I’ve emailed Kaspersky to ask for a resolution. Until then if you are running Kaspersky Internet Suite you need to close it down completely to prevent this issue. Quite rightly you should be running a security […]