Macro Recording and Automating Windows with Macro Scheduler – Tips & News
Back in January we were able to download the Windows 7 beta and I reported that Macro Scheduler 11 is fully compatible with Windows 7. Yesterday the final RTM (Release to Manufacturing) version was made available to MSDN subscribers and so today I upgraded my Vista desktop to Windows 7. I am pleased to report […]
Gale Dyvig has just posted some code in the forums showing how to use the Microsoft Office Document Imaging OCR component to locate text on the screen, find its position and click on it. Very useful. You’ll find it here. MODI is a component that comes with Microsoft Office. You need to ensure Microsoft Office […]
Examples are examples not doctrine. In the topic on the “Release” command in the Macro Scheduler help file it mentions that to exit a program you might do: Press ALT Send>fx Release ALT This would hold down ALT while sending the f and x keys before releasing the ALT key again. Commonly this invokes the […]
Macro Scheduler 11.1.13 is now available with the following fixes: Fixed: Attempt to save a macro with illegal characters in name fails to show error dialog properly Fixed: Issue with Include using SCRIPT_DIR in debugger when run in standalone mode Registered Downloads/Upgrades | Evaluation Downloads | New License Sales
I just helped out a customer who was getting increasingly frustrated trying to get a macro to select a menu. The menu shortcut key was “g” and all he was trying to do was send Alt-g to the window. But whatever he tried he couldn’t get it to work. Being an experienced programmer who had […]
In our newest customer podcast Joe Kitt of John R Lyman Company talks about their Order Auto-Acknowledgement system he built using Macro Scheduler which automatically acknowledges all orders coming into their ERP system. Although Joe has been working in IT for 20 years he has so far avoided doing any programming and says that Macro […]
A project I’m currently working on involves populating data into a rather poorly designed user interface. A particular challenge were the drop down lists and list boxes due to the fact that you can’t “drill down” by sending the text of the item you want selected. The solution we settled upon uses the text capture […]
Macro Scheduler 11.1.12 is now available with the following changes: Fixed: FTPGetDirList issue with format of directory list and wildcard matching with some flavours of FTP server Fixed: Issue with ExportData adding extra erroneous character to end of exported text files Fixed: FindImagePos using SCREEN for haystack fails under Remote Desktop/Terminal Server session Registered Downloads/Upgrades | Evaluation […]
Apologies for the quietness on my blog lately. This month has been a busy one for me personally as on 13th June I – finally – married my partner of 6 years (and the mother of my children), Angela, and went away for a short, but very relaxing, honeymoon last weekend. We at MJT have […]
Macro Scheduler 11.1.11 is now available with the following changes: Fixed: Some issues with running macros via msNet (Remote Controller) component (Enterprise) Fixed: Image Capture Tool incorrectly focusing main window after capture when run in standalone editor mode Improvement: StringReplace speed improvements Registered Downloads/Upgrades | Evaluation Downloads | New License Sales