Macro Recording and Automating Windows with Macro Scheduler – Tips & News
This is something that comes up often, so I thought I’d mention it here. Every so often we get asked how to put a date into a filename. Say you want to rename or save a file with the date in the filename formatted to reportsYYYYMMDD.txt e.g.: reports20061801.txt Well the simplest way to do this […]
I’ve added some scripts to the Scripts & Tips forum: A script to Monitor Startup Programs. Useful for detecting rogue apps like spyware etc Is Drive Ready. A function to determine whether the drive is ready or not. Automatically Create a System Restore Point. Useful at the start of a script that installs software or […]
Cosmo asked in his comment on How to Start Writing an Automation Script how he could set the position of a desktop shortcut. This is an interesting question that hasn’t come up before and it took me a while to realise how it could be done. You may wonder why you’d even want to do […]
This is the 10th commandment of system administration according to Brian Warshawsky’s article “Ten Commandments of system administration” over at NewsForge. I couldn’t agree more. You’ll find the article with links to the other nine commandments here. These articles are for Linux administrators so much of the content and the example scripts won’t be much […]
Tim Jones emailed me to point out an error in my keyboard shortcut article. Tim is a proper keyboard junky. Not even sure he has a mouse! ___________________ > SHIFT-RIGHT on its own just moves the cursor to the end of the > word and then to the next word and so on. Reverse it […]
These are my tips for getting started with writing an automation script. While I’m, writing this with our Windows Automation tool, Macro Scheduler, in mind, these tips will be appropriate whichever automation tool you are using. The most important thing before attempting to write a routine to automate a software process is to be familiar […]
As mentioned in my last post, the easiest, most reliable way to automate an application is via keyboard shortcuts. But I’ve found that many people are so used to using the mouse that they don’t even realise you can use the keyboard to move around Windows applications. Some things I take for granted are completely […]
One of the best ways to learn to use a software product fully is to try to automate it. Testers and automators have to learn the software’s interface really well, possibly better than the people who wrote it. Ok, the developers know the algorithms better than anyone else, but it is the person automating it […]
What has Macro Scheduler got to do with Zebra fish? Well, it seems Macro Scheduler was used to automate some of the experiments written about in this book: The Zebrafish: Cellular and Developmental Biology Amazing huh? Macro Scheduler has been used for all sorts of incredible things. Unfortunately I’m not always able to get permission […]
We should have a couple of language packs available on the site very soon. Japanese and Norwegian translations are done for the software and we have others in various states of completion. We’re keen to get any help we can, so if anyone would like to volunteer please step up. The help file is perhaps […]