Macro Recording and Automating Windows with Macro Scheduler – Tips & News
Here’s a script to automate the installation of Adobe Reader: http://www.mjtnet.com/usergroup/viewtopic.php?t=3034 This script demonstrates how to wait for windows to change based on the text within them. As with the majority of installers, Adobe Reader’s installer has a series of windows with the same title with differing content, and “Next” buttons to progress through the […]
Great post by Jesper Johansson, Senior Security Strategist at Microsoft, on Vista security and why beta testers should not disable User Account Control just yet: http://tinyurl.com/j5z7x. Worth a read.
If you’re wondering why I have been a bit quiet the last few days this is the reason. Benjamin Albert Tettmar was born yesterday, June 21st at 2020 GMT. Angela and baby are recuperating in hospital after a long and gruelling 48 hour labour! But both are doing just fine and will be home soon.
I just received a reply to my “Macro Scheduler Resume” mailing that I sent out a few weeks ago. The sender was complaining about an incorrect spelling and suggested that my email would be seen as unprofessional if forwarded to other businesses. His complaint was that I used the spelling “Organisation”. The fact is I […]
I’ve just had a bit of fun writing a couple of small scripts that will search Google for a set of key phrases and find the position of a specified URL for those key phrases in the results. I have built two versions of this script. One with a simple dialog where you can enter […]
I have just uploaded version 1.03 of the Image Recognition Library. This fixes a bug with CompareBitmaps where the percentage match value returned could be incorrect. The CompareBitmaps function now works properly! Download the update from: http://www.mjtnet.com/imagerecognition.htm
If you’ve been playing with the Vista betas recently you’ll have noticed how often it asks for your permission to perform admin level functions. By default Vista runs all users as ordinary level users (even if you’re logged in as an Admin) and asks for permission via “Elevation Prompts” every time an admin function is […]
The Windows Vista Customer Preview Program was launched yesterday evening making Vista beta 2 available to everyone. Until now it has been confined to members of the Technical Beta Program and MSDN subscribers. Now anyone can download it or order a copy on DVD. So if you are wanting to try Vista out now is […]
[UPDATE: 27.3.2018 – Since this article was written Macro Scheduler now has built in Screen OCR functions] We often need to write scripts that extract text from a window or some area of the screen. Usually this can be achieved via the clipboard, or commands such as GetWindowText and GetControlText, or via a Win32 API […]
The other day a friend of mine phoned me. He was trying to install the software that came with his new Nokia mobile phone. He said he was beginning to go mad. He just couldn’t see what he was missing. He said that when he started the installer a screen came up with a license […]