Macro Recording and Automating Windows with Macro Scheduler – Tips & News
I received the following email today (I have paraphrased and anonymised it to protect the innocent): “We were given a Macro Scheduler script to run on our system that someone else wrote which we are trying to use with your trial version. It doesn’t work. Your product seems to be very flaky and unreliable. Is […]
WebRecorder and the IEAuto runtime have been updated as follows: IEAuto 2.08 : Added the ability to specify classname for ClickTag Fixed issue where some fields may not click in IE8/9 WebRecorder 2.4: Added Name/ID to Tag Extraction Wizard and will now output an ExtractTagByName if an ID or Name is present Workaround for pre-focused […]
We need to add more video tutorials. There are thousands of forum posts, blog posts and articles on this site but so far we’re shamefully low on video tutorials. So I need your ideas. I’m not very good at coming up with contrived examples and I’m also the kind of person who learns by doing, […]
The other day I posted a response on the forums which uses LibFunc to run the Win32 API function GetKeyState. This prompted someone to email me the following: I didn’t know the Win API call to check for a key being down. The API call works but have you considered adding a native MS command […]
Macro Scheduler 12.1.1 is now available with the following fixes since my last update announcement: Fixed: TrayIcons, XL, Telnet and ADO objects being destroyed at end of event handler subroutines Fixed: FTP Status window in FTPDelFile, FTPRemoveDir, FTPMakeDir, FTPRenameFile not being closed at end of operation Fixed: A macro containing a dialog called with the […]
In the comments to my last post Richard asked how we can wait for a process to finish updating a file. In my reply to Richard I point out that most of the time we can use a visual cue. Where possible this is the approach I would use. Usually an application would present some […]
Today I was helping someone who was wanting to write a script to take screen-shots from one application and then paste those screen-shots into Microsoft Excel. Initially things weren’t working reliably because the script didn’t factor in the time taken for the large bitmap of a screen-shot to exist in the clipboard after pressing the […]
Way back in 1998 we released a handy little Windows Clipboard extender and information manager called ClipMagic. It lives over at http://www.clipmagic.com/ where today after far too long a new version was released. If you’re not already familiar with ClipMagic it is a Windows clipboard monitor/viewer/extender/manager which stores every item you copy to the windows […]
Macro Scheduler 12.1.0 is now available with the following fixes since my last update announcement: Fixed: IGNORESPACES ignoring CRLFs and SPACES when on their own. Fixed: StringReplace crashes if empty string passed in find parameter Fixed: Occassional “cannot write to comdef.ini” error in standalone editor. Fixed: CTRL-V etc not working in Watch List search box […]
Forum regular JRL has come up with yet another great coding example, with a demonstration of how to jazz up your dialogs by displaying an animated image – a great way to represent progress of an activity. Here it is. In fact this example shows how any window can be embedded into a dialog by […]