Archive: March 2008

OnEvent – Dealing with Indeterminate Dialogs

March 4, 2008 by Marcus Tettmar in Automation, Scripting

Most of the time when we are automating a process we are able to predict the sequence of events. We are working with a deterministic process and a linear flow of actions. But there are occasions when things can happen during a process that we cannot predict precisely. E.g.: We might know that a dialog […]

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Annotate PDF Documents

February 29, 2008 by Marcus Tettmar in General

PDF documents are everywhere, but most of us don’t have the means to edit them. I’ve often received forms or agreements in PDF format and have had to print them off to complete and sign them only to scan them again to send in an email. But there’s an end to this madness in the […]

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Take the elevator, not the stairs …

February 12, 2008 by Marcus Tettmar in Automation, General

I just love this quote: β€œThe IT division of First State Bank of Altus was on a theoretical 25th floor and everyone was taking the stairs. The implementation of Macro Scheduler Pro from MJT Net provided us with a much-needed elevator.” – Garry Petzold, Chief IT Officer, First State Bank of Altus Taken from our […]

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Macro Scheduler in PC Plus Magazine

January 23, 2008 by Marcus Tettmar in General

If you’re in the UK watch out for next month’s issue of PC Plus magazine (issue number 266). A full, unrestricted, licensed, copy of Macro Scheduler 8.0 will be on the cover disc. And inside you’ll find a discount code for version 10 – the latest and greatest.

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Macro Scheduler on New Software Deal of the Day Site

by Marcus Tettmar in General

There’s a new Software Deal of the Day site about town. It is called, appropriately enough, Software Deal of the Day and it can be found at www.software-dod.com. Each day the site features a different software title with a juicy big one-day-only discount. Unlike other similar sites they also offer a “Second Chance Discount” after […]

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Could Automation Save the Economy?

January 17, 2008 by Marcus Tettmar in Automation, General

The editorial comment in the latest issue of Computing magazine discusses how IT may hold the key to preventing a recession: “Financial institutions are looking for IT-enabled efficiency to help them through a sticky patch” Regular Macro Scheduler users don’t need to be told how much automation can boost productivity and increase efficiency. Just look […]

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Screen Scrape Text Capture Example

January 3, 2008 by Marcus Tettmar in Automation, Scripting

In this post I discussed the Text Capture commands and explained what kind of text can be captured. To try out the text capture functionality launch the latest version of Macro Scheduler. Click New to create a new script and then in the Code Builder locate the “Text Capture Wizard”. Point the mouse at some […]

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