Marcus' Macro Scheduler Blog

Just a quick note to wish all our customers and readers of this blog good tidings for this festive season. Whether you celebrate this time of the year or not, we’ll be raising a glass to all of you.

Forum regular JRL has put together this snazzy little Macro Scheduler script. Paste it into a new macro and hit run for some festive cheer:

OnEvent>key_down,VK27,0,Quit
SRT>Quit
  SetControlText>Sparkler,TEdit,1,Complete
  WaitWindowClosed>Sparkler
  Wait>1
  DeleteFile>%temp_dir%Sparkler.scp
  Exit>0
END>Quit

DeleteFile>%temp_dir%Sparkler.scp
LabelToVar>SparkleScript,vScrData

Dialog>Dialog1
object Dialog1: TForm
  BorderStyle = bsNone
  Caption = 'Happy Holidays'
  ClientHeight = 330
  ClientWidth = 780
  Color = 111111
  Position = poScreenCenter
  object Panel3: TPanel
    Left = 0
    Top = 0
    Width = 780
    Height = 330
    BevelEdges = []
    BevelOuter = bvNone
    Caption = 'And a Happy New Year'
    Color = 111111
    Font.Charset = ANSI_CHARSET
    Font.Color = clRed
    Font.Height = -80
    Font.Name = 'Vladimir Script'
    Font.Style = []
    ParentFont = False
    Visible = False
  end
  object Panel2: TPanel
    Left = 0
    Top = 0
    Width = 780
    Height = 330
    BevelEdges = []
    BevelOuter = bvNone
    Caption = 'Merry Christmas'
    Color = 111111
    Font.Charset = ANSI_CHARSET
    Font.Color = clRed
    Font.Height = -96
    Font.Name = 'Old English Text MT'
    Font.Style = []
    ParentFont = False
  end
  object Panel1: TPanel
    Left = 0
    Top = 0
    Width = 780
    Height = 330
    BevelEdges = []
    BevelOuter = bvNone
    Caption = ''
    Color = 111111
  end
end
EndDialog>Dialog1

Show>Dialog1

ExecuteFile>%temp_dir%Sparkler.scp

Let>WIN_USEHANDLE=1
  GetWindowPos>Dialog1.handle,Dia1X,Dia1Y
Let>WIN_USEHANDLE=0
Add>Dia1Y,165
Let>StartY=Dia1Y
Let>YFlag=1
Wait>0.3

Let>kk=0
Repeat>kk
  Add>kk,4
  If>Dia1Y>{%StartY%+20}
    Let>YFlag=0
  EndIf
  If>Dia1Y<{%StartY%-20}
    Let>YFlag=1
  EndIf
  Add>Dia1X,4
  If>YFlag=1
    Add>Dia1Y,8
  Else
    Sub>Dia1Y,8
  EndIf
  Wait>0.025
  If>Dia1X>40
    SetControlText>Sparkler,TEdit,1,%Dia1X%;%Dia1Y%
  EndIf
  SetDialogProperty>Dialog1,Panel1,Left,kk
Until>kk>750

Timer>Begin

GetWindowPos>Sparkler,SparkX,SparkY

Label>Loop
If>{%Dia1X%<%SparkX%+150}
  Add>Dia1X,1
EndIf
If>Dia1Y>StartY
  Sub>Dia1Y,1
EndIf
If>Dia1YDia1Y,1
EndIf
SetControlText>Sparkler,TEdit,1,%Dia1X%;%Dia1Y%
Wait>0.01
Timer>Stop
If>{%Stop%-%Begin%>5000}
  GoSub>Fade
EndIf
Goto>Loop

SRT>Fade
  SetDialogProperty>Dialog1,,AlphaBlend,True
  Let>Fader=255
  Repeat>Fader
    Sub>Fader,5
    SetDialogProperty>Dialog1,,AlphaBlendValue,Fader
    Wait>0.1
  Until>Fader<0
  Let>Fader=255
  SetDialogProperty>Dialog1,Panel3,Visible,True
  SetDialogProperty>Dialog1,Panel2,Visible,False
  SetDialogProperty>Dialog1,,AlphaBlendValue,Fader
  Wait>3
  Timer>Begin
  GetScreenRes>ScreenX,ScreenY
  While>{%Stop%-%Begin%<10000}
    Timer>Stop
    Random>100,Pct
    Add>pct,1
    Let>Dia1X={round(%ScreenX%*(%pct%/100))}
    Random>100,Pct
    Add>pct,1
    Let>Dia1Y={round(%ScreenY%*(%pct%/100))}
    SetControlText>Sparkler,TEdit,1,%Dia1X%;%Dia1Y%
    Sub>Fader,5
    SetDialogProperty>Dialog1,,AlphaBlendValue,Fader
    Wait>0.2
  EndWhile
  SetControlText>Sparkler,TEdit,1,Complete
  WaitWindowClosed>Sparkler
  Wait>1
  DeleteFile>%temp_dir%Sparkler.scp
  
  Exit>0
END>Fade

/*
SparkleScript:
Let>size=200

OnEvent>key_down,vk27,0,Quit

SRT>Quit
  Exit>0
END>Quit

Dialog>Dialog2
object Dialog2: TForm
  BorderStyle = bsNone
  Caption = 'Sparkler'
  Color = 1
  TransparentColor = True
  TransparentColorValue = 1
  object Panel1: TPanel
    Left = 0
    Top = 0
    BevelOuter = bvNone
    Caption = 'Panel1'
    Color = 1
    TabOrder = 0
  end
  object Edit1: TEdit
    Text = '-1000;-1000'
    Visible = False
  end
end
EndDialog>Dialog2

Let>WIN_USEHANDLE=1
  MoveWindow>Dialog2.handle,-1000,-1000
Let>WIN_USEHANDLE=0
AddDialogHandler>Dialog2,,OnClose,Quit
SetDialogProperty>Dialog2,,ClientHeight,size
SetDialogProperty>Dialog2,,ClientWidth,size
SetDialogProperty>Dialog2,Panel1,Height,size
SetDialogProperty>Dialog2,Panel1,Width,size
SetDialogProperty>Dialog2,,AlphaBlend,True
SetDialogProperty>Dialog2,,AlphaBlendValue,0
Show>Dialog2

Let>halfSize={round(%size%/2)}
Let>85Per={round(%halfSize%*0.85)}
Let>15Per={round(%halfSize%*0.15)}
Let>ang2=0
Let>kk=0
SetDialogProperty>Dialog2,,AlphaBlendValue,255
Repeat>kk
  GetDialogProperty>Dialog2,Edit1,Text,vPos
  If>vPos=Complete
    Let>kk=-100
    Goto>Done
  EndIf
  Separate>vPos,;,Cur
  Sub>Cur_1,%halfSize%
  Sub>Cur_2,%halfSize%
  MoveWindow>Sparkler,Cur_1,Cur_2
  Add>kk,1
  Random>85Per,res
  Add>res,%15Per%
  Random>50,color
  Add>Color,45500
  Random>90,ang2
  Let>ang2=%ang2%*4
  GoSub>Angle,Dialog2,Panel1,ang2,%halfSize%,%halfSize%,%halfSize%,4,1
  Random>90,ang3
  Let>ang3=%ang3%*4
  GoSub>Angle,Dialog2,Panel1,ang3,%halfSize%,%halfSize%,%halfSize%,4,1
  Random>90,ang
  Let>ang=%ang%*4
  SetDialogProperty>Dialog2,Panel1,caption,space
  GoSub>Angle,Dialog2,Panel1,ang,%halfSize%,%halfSize%,res,2,color
  Label>Done
Until>kk<0

//Angle Usage:
//GoSub>Angle,Dialog,Object,Angle(in degrees),XStart,YStart,Length,PenSize,PenColor
//Requires Drawline subroutine
SRT>Angle
  Let>DegreeAngle=Angle_var_3
  Let>XStart=Angle_var_4
  Let>Ystart=Angle_var_5
  Let>LineLength=Angle_var_6
  Let>RadAngle={%DegreeAngle%*(pi/180)}
  Let>XEnd={trunc((cos(%RadAngle%))*%LineLength%)}
  Let>YEnd={trunc((sin(%RadAngle%))*%LineLength%)}
  Let>XEnd=%XEnd%+%XStart%
  Let>YEnd=%YEnd%+%YStart%
  GoSub>DrawLine,%Angle_var_1%.%Angle_var_2%.Handle,Angle_var_7,Angle_var_8,XStart,YStart,XEnd,YEnd
END>Angle

SRT>DrawLine
  LibFunc>user32,GetDC,HDC,%DrawLine_var_1%
  LibFunc>gdi32,CreatePen,Penres,0,%DrawLine_var_2%,%DrawLine_var_3%
  LibFunc>gdi32,SelectObject,SOPres,hdc,Penres
  Libfunc>gdi32,MoveToEx,mtres,HDC,%DrawLine_var_4%,%DrawLine_var_5%,0
  LibFunc>gdi32,LineTo,ltres,hdc,%DrawLine_var_6%,%DrawLine_var_7%
  LibFunc>gdi32,DeleteObject,DOres,Penres
  LibFunc>user32,ReleaseDC,RDCres,HDC_1,HDC
END>DrawLine
*/

Enjoy! 🙂