Macro Recording and Automating Windows with Macro Scheduler – Tips & News
I’ve improved the Macro Scheduler Portable installer so that it now prompts for the drive letter you want to install on rather than default to Program Files which doesn’t make much sense for a portable install. It also grabs your license code from your full install so that you don’t need to enter it manually […]
Some of you may remember that we had some issues with Internet Explorer 6 support when we released our new web site. I made some negative comments about IE6. And I was being polite. Unfortunately IE6 is still in use in millions of companies and, as I mentioned in that last post, some 35% of […]
A long time ago in a land far away called Windows 95 it was normal to store application settings and data in the program’s folder. Then Microsoft came out with all kinds of guidelines and the “correct” procedure was to use the registry. With a locked down standard user account, and with a default Vista […]
VBScript has a function called IsNumeric, but as discussed in this forum post VBScript numbers can contain the letter ‘E’ (and it would seem ‘D’ too). These are valid numbers as far as VBScript is concerned but in the real world we usually don’t care for them. Numbers may also be floats. So in the […]
An interesting discussion arose in the forums yesterday on how to read data from a CSV file. The usual suggestion is to use Separate to split each line into an array using the comma as the delimiter, as explained in my post here. The problem, as highlighted in the forum topic, is: what if the […]
Macro Scheduler 11.1.06 is now available with the following fix: – Fixed: Removed rogue diagnostic message in DBQuery which would appear if use names parameter was present. Registered Downloads/Upgrades | Evaluation Downloads | New License Sales
Workflow Designer 2.1 is now available with the following changes: Added: Ability to export workflow diagrams to Macro Scheduler script files Added: Ability to add top/Left Rulers Updated MacroScript engine to 11.1.05 Change: Visio style grab handles Fixed: Opening Editor under Vista with UAC enabled would sometimes not work Fixed: Some unicode encoding issues Workflow […]
You’ve seen film trailers, now there are software trailers. Here’s a 30 second Macro Scheduler Trailer courtesy of Tucows.com:
This month’s podcast interview is with Gale Dyvig of Seattle Children’s Hospital. Gale talks about why they chose Macro Scheduler for automating the testing of their systems running in a Citrix environment; why they chose to replace their existing HP WinRunner scripts with Macro Scheduler scripts; and how they are saving money on licenses and […]
Macro Scheduler 11.1.05 Update is now available with the following changes: Added: RegEx function with Perl and EasyPatterns support for search and/or replacement. Added: CopyFolder, DeleteFolder commands – actually just aliases for CopyFile and DeleteFile Added: Option in Debug Menu to change colour of debug line (Debug/Debug Line Color). Added: NULLCHAR system variable for null […]