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Archive: May 2006
Changing CMD’s Window Title
When running command line tools, applications or batch files it is often necessary to watch the resultant command window. E.g. to detect their completion you can have the script wait until the command window has closed. The trouble with this is that when you run batch files the title of the command window is always […]
Tight Loops
Tight loops consume CPU cycles. A tight loop that doesn’t yield to the processor will hog the processor and can prevent other processes getting the CPU and can therefore slow down your system. Consider this simple loop: Let>x=1 Label>start Let>x=x+1 Goto>start Run that and you’ll notice CPU utilisation for Macro Scheduler will jump up to […]
System Error Codes
Someone asked recently how to get information on what certain error codes mean. Most of the error codes returned by Macro Scheduler functions are actually standard Windows return codes. E.g. the result of a WriteLn or ReadLn operation or the Run Program command is a standard Windows error code. Windows System Error codes are documented […]
French Language Pack Available
Many thanks to Christophe Faure for translating Macro Scheduler into French. He has completed the program language file and the help file is about 40% complete. The French language pack can be downloaded here. If any French users of Macro Scheduler discover a French download site that does not currently list Macro Scheduler could you […]
Multiple Monitors
Dave Collins writes that the New York Times reports a 30% increase in productivity when users run multiple monitors. He also links to an interesting discussion touting 36 screen setups and some photos of other big multi-screen configurations. A few months ago I discovered an excellent piece of software called MaxiVista. MaxiVista lets you use […]
Voicemail Problems
We seem to be having some problems with our voicemail system at the moment. Messages are being truncated. If you’ve left a voicemail for us during the last week or so and haven’t heard back from us that will be the reason. If so please send us an email with your contact details and we’ll […]
Macro Scheduler Success Story – Eastman Kodak
By Bruce Davis. My name is Bruce Davis. I am a Customer Relationship Manager at Eastman Kodak supporting our Electronics and Warehouse Club channels. My organization is responsible for managing a wide variety of styles of customer orders. Some of the orders come in through electronic methods and require little manual intervention. However, our high […]
Activate macro with screen click
Someone sparked an interesting thread in the Macro Scheduler forums recently when they asked if it was possible to activate a macro by detecting a click on a specific area of the screen. They wanted to know if you could define a portion of the screen so that if a click is detected in that […]
iTunes Rant
I’ve only recently started using iTunes. Funnily enough I had to use it to help a Macro Scheduler customer, but that’s another story. I was really impressed with how easy it is to buy tracks and download them with iTunes. So I bought a few albums and the first thing I did was burn them […]