Macro Recording and Automating Windows with Macro Scheduler – Tips & News
Sometimes I wonder if Macro Scheduler has outgrown its name. “Macro” seems too small a word, and “Scheduler” is just one small feature. It’s so much more than these two words suggest now. When version one was released there were less than 20 commands, purely for simulating user input and manipulating windows. No script editor, […]
This version uses Macro Scheduler 9.2’s DLL import method. It installs the DLL into Macro Scheduler 9.2’s folder and creates native looking functions instead of LibFunc calls. Much easier to read. Also much easier to edit. Of course, you can switch back to using LibFunc calls if you need/prefer to. WebRecorder 2.0 also has an […]
I’ve just made Macro Scheduler 9.2 available. Mod: FindImagePos: Can now use SCREEN in haystack parm to have it scan the screen directly (no need to capture the screen to a file first) Added IGNOREERRORS option to prevent script error popups Added ability to change log file viewer in registry from default notepad (Set HKCU\Software\MJTNET\MSched […]
Some while ago I wrote this post about how to script a tool called Textract to perform OCR against the screen. Well gpulawski has just posted this tip in the forums pointing out that Microsoft Office 2003/2007 comes with something called MODI (Microsoft Office Document Imaging) which can OCR a bitmap or TIFF file and […]
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What is it with the packaging you get computer stuff in? This is that horrible thick plastic stuff. You almost need a hacksaw to get into it. I just about managed with a pen knife. And you have to be careful – this stuff is sharp. There’s more plastic in the packaging than the product […]
The last time I tried speech recognition was about 15 years ago and back then it wasn’t very good. I suppose it was early days for the technology but I pretty much gave up on it. This morning, however, I was reading Scott Hanselman’s post about speech recognition in Vista and wanted to give it […]
If you haven’t already heard about the Excel bug, open up Excel 2007 and try multiplying 77.1 with 850: =77.1*850 Clearly that should give you 65,535. But Excel 2007 returns 100,000. Oops. It turns out it’s just a presentational bug. The displayed result is wrong, but the underlying value is correct. If you were to […]
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Macro Scheduler 9.1.05 maintenance update was released yesterday. – Fixed: delay on some systems when saving scripts – Fixed: Rare issue starting trial on Win2003 Svr RC2 – Fixed: SCRIPT_FILE variable showing garbage in compiled script – Fixed: Possible “Invalid Pointer Operation” error on windows shutdown Download the evaluation | Registered Updates