Macro Recording and Automating Windows with Macro Scheduler – Tips & News
Thanks to everyone who entered our T-Shirt design competition. I’ve really enjoyed seeing all the entries and it has been very difficult to pick a winner. All entries are excellent in their own right and there are some great slogans, creative designs and novel concepts. I have a number of favourite designs and, personally, I […]
Are you a contractor, consultant, freelancer or value added reseller who knows and uses Macro Scheduler and works in a specific industry, like Health Care, Education or Manufacturing? If you are I’d like to hear from you. I’m looking at opportunities for Macro Scheduler in vertical markets and would like to find people with industry […]
Phil Pendlebury has written a really handy little tool for quickly uploading files from Windows Explorer, and he’s built it using Macro Scheduler. With his FTP Uploader tool installed you can right click on any file and select Send To->FTP Uploader to quickly upload it to any FTP site. It will remember the FTP server […]
The T-Shirt competition is now closed. Many thanks for all your creative contributions. We will now get our heads together, look through the entries and decide on a winner. Will aim to announce a winner by 15th Feb.
Here’s a quick and simple proof of concept for running Macro Scheduler macros via the web and having their output displayed in the user’s browser: 1) If you don’t already have a Windows based web server with PHP running, download and install WAMPServer. It’s easy. 2) Create a simple PHP script which takes an EXE […]
In More on Reading and Writing CSV Files and various other posts I have demonstrated how CSV data can be read via a SQL SELECT statement using DBQuery. In order to do this we used an ADO connection string in the DBConnect line: Let>ConStr=Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;Data Source=C:\My Documents;Extended Properties=’text;HDR=NO;FMT=Delimited’ DBConnect>ConStr,dbH “Proper” CSV files use the double quote […]
This is a variation of a question we get regularly. Usually it turns out that the script is waiting on a WaitWindowOpen line because of a typo in the window title. WaitWindowOpen, given a window title, will cause the script to wait until a window with that title exists. If you misspell the window title […]
If you have a database table with an auto-generated numerical index field, you may need to retrieve the value of this field after an INSERT statement. In Microsoft Access such a field uses an “AutoNumber” data type. In MySQL it’s known as an “auto_increment” field. We often see these types of fields where a relationship […]
Over the last few days, like many I’m sure, I’ve been wondering what else I can do to help the people of Haiti beyond sending a donation to one of the many charities. Then today, I saw this from my friend Andy Brice of PerfectTablePlan. He’s giving licenses away to people who donate money to […]
WebRecorder has been updated to version 2.2 with the following changes: – If a form element has no NAME attribute WebRecorder will use the ID element if it has one. WebRecorder and IEAuto.DLL have been updated accordingly. This allows more forms to be recorded and played back. Registered Downloads/Upgrades | Evaluation Downloads | New License […]