In the Macro Scheduler 13 releases notes we declared a known issue with the text capture functions when used to capture from a window or rectangular screen area if the underlying window belonged to a 64 bit process. And we promised to release a fix as soon as it was made available to us.
Well I’m pleased to say it is now here. v13.0.03 includes the fixed text capture libraries which address this issue.
Life is never simple though is it!? We’ve had to change the Text Capture Wizard very slightly. The new libraries don’t seem to like the way we used the mouse to drag the cross hairs to the target point for X,Y position capture. It seems that text capture can be affected by having a mouse button held down! I’ve reported this to the developers of the library component but rather than wait any longer we’ve made a simple change to the way the text capture wizard works. For point capture, instead of dragging the cursor to the point you want to capture from you now need to move the mouse while holding the Shift key down until you’ve captured the text you want (or move the mouse to the text you want, then hold Shift down until it shows in the wizard, then release Shift).
Workarounds seem to be the order of the day. Macro Scheduler 13 was built with the newest version of Delphi – Delphi XE2. Shortly after Macro Scheduler 13 was released some people noticed that if you open the help file from the main Macro Scheduler window, then leave help open, go into the Editor and then try and access the help or invoke help from the editor, the help window would become unresponsive.
This issue didn’t occur in v12 and we soon realised it is a bug introduced in Delphi XE2. We’ve reported it to Embarcadero and they are now aware of it. Apparently it is a regression to a bug that existed in an earlier version.
So the good news is that Embarcadero know about it. Trouble is they don’t release bug fixes quite as quickly as we do. So rather than wait we’ve completely re-written the way the help is displayed and handled so as not to use the Delphi libraries. So in this latest build the help system now works correctly!
V13.0.03 also fixes a few other small issues and you’ll find a complete list of changes here.
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