Macro Recording and Automating Windows with Macro Scheduler – Tips & News
I’ve been evaluating various remote support solutions lately. For a while we’ve been using a reverse VNC system, which is free, and works well for the most part. Being a reverse connection there are usually no firewall issues, since the customer adds us as a listening viewer and therefore the connection is from inside out, […]
Update 7th April 2008: Macro Scheduler 10.1 now has native database functions built in so in most cases it is no longer necessary to use the ADODB object in VBScript as described below. See Using Macro Scheduler’s Database Functions The best way to access (retrieve, modify, or insert) data from a database with Macro Scheduler […]
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I helped someone today who was trying to record a web form that performed a file upload. File uploads are handled using an INPUT tag of type FILE. Unfortunately it turns out that these can’t be scripted for security reasons. Microsoft has prevented applications from setting the value property of these types of object. The […]
Interesting video interview on Channel 9 with Bill Gates. Find out what he thinks about the Web and what the future holds for software. Microsoft have really become much more transparent lately. Channel 9 is a great way to get an insight into what goes on at Microsoft and meet some of the key people. […]
I’ve just posted an example in response to a message on the forum where someone needed to extract data from finance.yahoo.com. The easiest way to create code to extract data from a page is to use WebRecorder‘s Tag Extractor. Unfortunately, finance.yahoo.com shows random adverts above the data and the HTML used to display the adverts […]
I noticed an error that had crept into 1.66 when it was released which was preventing downloads from being recorded. This was basically because we’d gone and left some diagnostic code in. Our bad. Slapped wrists and all that. This has been fixed and 1.67 has now been released. Registered users can download from the […]
There’s a new post on Microsoft’s Internet Explorer blog on using the keyboard to get around IE and some new keyboard shortcuts in IE7. Very useful for those times when you need to automate IE’s interface with Macro Scheduler: http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2006/02/08/527702.aspx See also: Keyboard Shortcuts
By Guy Tanzer My name is Guy Tanzer, and I live in the Raleigh area in North Carolina, USA. Nearby is the Research Triangle Park, with the highest concentration of IT people and jobs in the eastern United States. I’ve been working with computers since 1977 and been in the business since 1984. In early […]