Macro Recording and Automating Windows with Macro Scheduler – Tips & News
Well, after painstakingly working with the Vista UAC team at Microsoft to ensure Macro Scheduler would be Vista compatible, and lots of testing with the Vista betas I was happy to report a while back that Macro Scheduler ran well under Vista beta 2. Recently Vista RC1 was made available under our MSDN subscription so […]
As you probably already know, selecting a page of a tab control is usually best achieved by sending CTRL-TAB. So on opening an application we can use the following Macro Scheduler code to jump to the third tab: SetFocus>Window_Title Press CTRL Press Tab * 2 Release CTRL This issues CTRL-TAB twice and therefore cycles through […]
Macro Scheduler 8.0.4 maintenance release is now available for download. More info here. A newsletter will be sent out tomorrow.
According to Sven Hallauer, Director of Windows Release Management, in a podcast interview yesterday, Microsoft has only a couple of weeks to ensure all critical bugs are fixed and in place to meet the Vista deadline. Any delay and the bugs either won’t get fixed, or the release date will slip. Certainly Vista Release Candidate […]
This was posted to the forum by Shane this morning: I have been developing scripts for our Banking and Insurance company for approx 3 years. We currently have 77 scripts with approx 20 000 lines of code, running on 104 machines and used 11502 times last week by our 100+ consultants. The scripts are used […]
Here’s a useless bit of info: It’s a Bank Holiday here in the UK. Wikipedia has the gen. It doesn’t mean quite what it does in the USA. But while the banks may be closed for business it’s pretty much business as usual for me here at MJT Net Ltd. It’s an ordinary Monday throughout […]
In my last post I said I would provide some tips on getting the best out of Google Groups and finding what you’re looking for. But first off let’s start with a few general search tips. Google themselves provide some helpful guides on using the regular Google search engine: Basic Tips: http://www.google.com/help/basics.html Advanced Search: http://www.google.com/help/refinesearch.html […]
In a way I feel I’m about to blow my own cover with this post. But I’m pretty sure many people will find this really useful. I seem to have a reputation for knowing everything. People always come to me with their computer problems and I’m nearly always able to find a solution. When I […]
Help is requested for testing the Dutch translation, here.
I often get people asking if there is a way to run Macro Scheduler macros just by typing a word, or having a word that you type in a document, or on a form, automatically trigger off a macro which then replaces that word. So we had something like this on the wish list. But […]