Macro Recording and Automating Windows with Macro Scheduler – Tips & News
I’m often asked how you can run Macro Scheduler macros from other programming languages, particularly VB. Macro Scheduler scripts can be run from the command line. See the help file topic “Command Line Options”. E.g.: msched.exe “c:\someplace\mymacro.scp” VB/VBA lets you execute external commands/applications via the Shell function: Shell “””c:\program files\macro scheduler 11\msched.exe”” “”c:\scripts\example.scp”””, vbNormalFocus […]
I just posted a script to the Scripts ‘n Tips forum with a function to perform an HTTP file upload.
This month a fancy MJT Net logo T-Shirt goes to Rain for receiving 10 forum reputation points in May. Thanks, Rain, for your valuable contributions on the forums and for continuing to help others out. Don’t forget that each month I send T-Shirts to the people receiving the most reputation points in the previous […]
Some pre-sales questions we get seem to suggest that the user lacks basic Windows skills. What surprises me is that these questions are often from people working in company IT departments. Their ability to comprehend how to automate something appears to be diminished by their inability to use a PC effectively. Perhaps I’m being unfair […]
I’ve just finished writing a routine for a customer that automates what I can only describe as a truly horrendous user interface. I’m not sure who designed it or why they designed it the way they did but I feel sorry for people who have to use this software. And apparently it is the industry […]
If you’re not using more than one monitor, you are missing out big time. For one thing, some research by the University of Utah found that using two monitors increases productivity 44%. There’s a good summary and more comment on this on the coding horror blog. A huge benefit of multiple monitors for Macro Scheduler […]
A question arose in the forums the other day from someone looking at running some scripts for load testing and wanting advice on how best to run multiple instances of the same script. See the thread here for some useful ideas and links. I thought I’d summarise them here. An article on using Macro […]
An experienced Macro Scheduler scripter was recently trying to figure out why the following code wasn’t doing what he expected: If>seg_1=05 Let>monLtr=mm Endif Apparantly monLtr was always being set to 05. This told me that “mm” must have been a variable which had earlier been set to 05. But my friend said “I’ve looked […]
We recently received the following query to support: I’m interested in Macro Schedular for GUI testing. How do I verify that the test has succeeded or not? I thought it would be useful to post my response here: There are a number of ways you could do this. Which one you use might depend on […]
I recently stumbled upon this series of video tutorials on Regular Expressions: Regular Expressions for Dummies If you want to know how to get some power of out of Macro Scheduler‘s new RegEx function you might find the above free video tutorial useful. One resource seen in the video that I didn’t know about is […]