Macro Recording and Automating Windows with Macro Scheduler – Tips & News
I’ve just downloaded Windows version usage data from StatCounter and charted it in Excel, adding polynomial trend lines. Here are the results: If this is right Windows 7 usage will eclipse that of XP by the end of this year. But I’m no statistician so don’t hold me to that. Either way, I understand that […]
If you’re using an old version of Macro Scheduler, especially version 8 or lower, and like many others, you or your company are considering upgrading your Windows operating system to Vista or Windows 7 soon then you will need to consider upgrading Macro Scheduler too. Windows 7 adoption rates are outpacing those of Vista fast […]
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Having gone through a period of closed beta testing Macro Scheduler 12 Beta is now available to all registered customers. All registered users can log into their account and download the beta now. Just a summary of some of the main new features: Faster and more powerful custom dialogs with real time event handlers; improved […]
If you’re wondering why I’ve been so quiet of late it’s largely because we’ve been working flat out on putting the finishing touches to Macro Scheduler 12. A small group of beta testers are giving it a good workout right now and we should soon be able to open beta testing up to registered users, […]
Check out this screen magnifier, written by Dick Lockey in only 34 lines of Macro Scheduler code. Â Paste it into a macro, hit run and then as you move the mouse around your screen you’ll see a 5x magnification of the cursor area. Dialog>Dialog1 Caption=5X Magnify Width=800 Height=500 Top=500 Left=48 EndDialog>Dialog1 Show>Dialog1 LibFunc>user32,GetDC,HDC1,Dialog1.handle LibFunc>user32,GetDC,HDC3,0 […]
One of my Windows XP systems installed an automatic update last night when I shut it down. Â This morning I was presented with this: As I understand it this is as a result of an EU competition law decision. Â Is this a good thing or a bad thing? On the one hand it seems […]
As you probably know Macro Scheduler scripts can include Microsoft VBScript. Not only can you CALL VBScript code you can also pass values into it and retrieve values out of it (I’ve seen many competitors claim you can use VBScript in their macros when what they really mean is you can only call external VBScripts […]
Macro Scheduler 11.1.21 is now available with the following fix: Fixed: Rare floating point overlow error during if statement if a string is all numbers apart from one “E” Fixed: SetDalogObjectFont causes access violation of dialog contains a MainMenu Registered Downloads/Upgrades | Evaluation Downloads | New License Sales
Macro Scheduler 11.1.20 is now available with the following fix: Fixed: Memory leak when running macros on some systems. Registered Downloads/Upgrades | Evaluation Downloads | New License Sales