Macro Recording and Automating Windows with Macro Scheduler – Tips & News
Today we have released an update to WebRecorder: WebRecorder GUI: 1.73 IEAuto.DLL: 1.79 Fixed: ContainsText unable to access content of some frames Fixed: ExtractTag unable to access content of some frames This update also correctly reports the version number of the WebRecorder GUI and the IEAuto.DLL version number. It now therefore works better with the […]
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Many support requests and forum posts I see include a script snippet and a statement like “this value is wrong” or “the if statement says false but it should be true”. So we make an intelligent guess and say “so perhaps the value you are comparing isn’t what you think it is. Use the debugger”. […]
Here’s a little script I wrote to give you a Date Picker dialog. Useful if you need to ask the user to select a date and want to make it easy for the user and avoid too much validation.
By Ed Authier. I used to consider Macro Scheduler just another tool to manage the technology that surrounded me everyday in my career. But at a certain point I realized that it was the best tool I had. Many years ago a colleague introduced Macro Scheduler to me and in those days we used to […]
I just stumbled across a couple of posts in another automation product’s forum where someone was asking how to perform date calculations in their automation routines. In Macro Scheduler you can add or subtract days to a date with one line of code. E.g.: Sub>date,1 Or, for more advanced date calculations and formatting, you can […]
Edauthier posted a script to the forum which invokes Merlin the Wizard with a little message for you. I had to make a few small changes. I also compiled it into an EXE. Here’s the code. Download a zip file containing the EXE. Just run it. Enjoy.
Received this nice email today, and just had to share it. Emphasis mine: Dear Marcus Having visited your web site over the past few months and analysed the on-line demo’s, I was convinced that your product would help me in shortening the time I had to spend on one particular aspect of my business, so […]
Did you know there’s now a way you can get a free copy of Macro Scheduler Std (Home/Non-commercial Edition)? And it doesn’t involve cracks! We’ve teamed up with TrialPay to offer Macro Scheduler Standard for free. TrialPay is a new service that offers you software for free as a reward for signing up for a […]
We had a customer email us the other day having a problem getting his macro to work reliably. He wanted to start an application, so he had written a macro to left click on the application’s shortcut on the desktop. But sometimes the icon moved. He wanted to know how to reliably know where the […]