Macro Recording and Automating Windows with Macro Scheduler – Tips & News
Macro Scheduler 12.1.3 is now available with the following fixes since my last update announcement: Fixed: RSS NewsFeed Window not timing out if a connection can’t be made. Added timeouts. Fixed: Last file in GetFileList wrong if a delimiter with more than one character used. Fixed: Macro Schedler Lite: Opening standalone editor causes crash. Fixed: […]
The following was just posted over in the “Tell us how Macro Scheduler helps you, what you use it for.” forum thread: We currently use it for two primary applications. One is to pull returning truck information out of a fleet management dispatch application for a produce brokerage company and dumping that information into a […]
A frequent request has been a video tutorial on creating and using dialogs. There’s a lot to dialogs and it’s impossible to address everything in one video so here’s a 10 minute introduction to get started with: You might want to click here to view a larger size video, or click the full screen icon […]
Macro Scheduler comes complete with some native functions for controlling Excel, such as XLOpen, XLGetCell, XLSetCell and others. Obviously, although we intend to add more functions over time, not every possible Excel function has been duplicated. So sometimes you may want to utilise COM via VBScript which allows you to access the entire Excel API. […]
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A minor update to Workflow Designer 3 today as well: When attempting to open script code in the Macro Scheduler editor it would fail to find the Macro Scheduler 12 editor and instead try to open the Macro Scheduler 11.x editor. So if you had v11 installed it would open in that. If you only […]
Macro Scheduler 12.1.2 is now available for download from the usual locations (registered updates | trial versions). This is actually just a change to the AutoLogon component installer and not to the core product. We found a small error in the way the AutoLogon component was being configured in the registry which was preventing it […]
Another contribution from Peter Begelsdorf which takes off from where his last video left off. Aimed at complete beginners this video demonstrates how to execute a file and wait for it to be ready before sending text and keystrokes to it. Part 1 of this sequence and other videos can be found on the Video […]
Following my recent request for video tutorial contributions long-time Macro Scheduler user Peter Begelsdorf has stepped up to the plate and put together a short tutorial aimed at the non-technical beginner. This slick three minute video introduces the fundamental, yet very important, SendText and Press commands and shows beginners how to create a simple text […]