Macro Recording and Automating Windows with Macro Scheduler – Tips & News
We’re currently putting together a press release which will outline how different customers of our software are saving money through software automation. If you are interested in being featured please let me know. We’ll need a short quote and we will provide a link back to your site. We would need savings translated to monetary […]
Here’s a quick way to extract just the filename from a full path: Let>file_path=C:\Program files\Skype\Phone\Skype.exe //get the file name on its own Separate>file_path,\,parts Let>exe_name=parts_%parts_count% //now get just the folder path MidStr>file_path,1,{length(%file_path%)-length(%exe_name%)},folder_only This uses Separate to explode the path into an array using the ‘\’ character as the delimiter. We’ve called the array “parts”. “parts_count” contains […]
Here’s a video of work in progress. It shows Code Folding and Bookmarks working in the new macro editor of Macro Scheduler v11 which we are currently working on. Note this is work in progress and the video shows an early development version. All the usual caveats apply – appearances may differ to the final […]
VBScript and Complex Expressions use the ” (double quote) character to delimit strings. Native MacroScript code doesn’t need delimited strings. But if you need to use Complex Expressions or VBScript you need to remember that strings must be delimited in quotes. One implication of this is that if the string already has a ” character […]
By default in Macro Scheduler you do not have to do anything special to refer to a variable. The following will create a variable called Name: Let>Name=Freddy Name is now assigned the value of Freddy. Referring to Variables: The following will display a message box containing the word “Freddy”: MessageModal>Name Macro Scheduler knows that Name […]
Received an email today from a longstanding customer who is using Comcast as his ISP. Today he tried to access www.mjtnet.com and received this message: WARNING! This site is rated potentially unsafe by TrustWatch! You have been redirected to this page as a service of Comcast High-Speed Internet, which includes the Comcast Toolbar. TrustWatch, a […]
With the latest release (10.1.15) we worked on optimizing the way variables are stored internally and were able to dramatically improve performance. Dick Lockey did some tests and writes that the latest version is 40 times faster than earlier versions! If you’re working with scripts that create and process a large number of variables – […]
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There are various scripts on the forums demonstrating how to automate Internet Explorer via VBScript and IE’s Document Object Model. Such as this one: Automate web forms with IE These require that the script creates the Internet Explorer instance via a CreateObject call. The script then has access to the IE object and can access […]
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