Macro Recording and Automating Windows with Macro Scheduler – Tips & News
Are you on LinkedIn? If you are, please connect with me there. My profile URL is http://uk.linkedin.com/in/marcustettmar. Make sure to add a note to say you’re a Macro Scheduler user so I know it isn’t a random request, and I’ll add you. See you there. 🙂
I was helping a customer out today who is still using Macro Scheduler version 9. I hadn’t looked at version 9 for a long while and using it made me realise how much of an improvement the current version (12) is, especially in regards to the debugger. Version 9 – released 5 years ago now […]
Microsoft have recently launched a new blog called “Building Windows 8” written by engineers on the Microsoft Windows 8 team and providing a means of dialog between themselves and the rest of us. It already features some interesting insights into how the new version of Windows will differ from existing versions. Well worth keeping an […]
Macro Scheduler 12.1.10 is now available for download. Fixed: conversion of groups tree from v11 could be incomplete for nested group structures. Fixed: An obscure VBScript conflict that could occur in event handler procedures. See: http://www.mjtnet.com/usergroup/viewtopic.php?t=6717 Registered Downloads/Upgrades | Evaluation Downloads | New License Sales
I rather liked this, so thought I’d share:
Quoting JRL on the forums this morning: Just noticed the forum recently surpassed 30,000 articles. That’s a lot of shared knowledge. Good job everyone It is indeed. What’s more is that forum posts almost always result in success for the original poster – i.e. they find out how to achieve their aims or learn something […]
If you are connected to the Internet here’s an easy way of getting your public IP address by visiting checkip.dyndns.org: HTTPRequest>http://checkip.dyndns.org/,,GET,,HTMLResponse RegEx>[IPAddress],HTMLResponse,1,ips,num_ips,0 If>num_ips>0 MessageModal>Your IP is %ips_1% Else MessageModal>Error retrieving IP from checkip.dyndns.org Endif
Macro Scheduler 12.1.8 is now available for download with the following fix: Fixed: SelectMenu, GetControlText, SetControlText, ToolBar, GetTreeNode & GetListNode may fail to work with window handles when WIN_USEHANDLE=1 Registered Downloads/Upgrades | Evaluation Downloads | New License Sales
We do our best to support all our customers whatever version they are using. But there are only so many versions we can run. So after a few years we need to officially “end-of-life” older versions. To that end, as of January 1st 2012 we will no longer be supporting Macro Scheduler v9 or lower. […]
Further to my post about the MacroScript SDK the other day, here’s an example of loading the MacroScript SDK COM object from PowerShell and running some Macro Scheduler code: $objMS = new-object -comobject “mscript.macroscript” $objMS.Init() $objMS.RunCode( “Run>notepad.exe” + [Environment]::NewLine + “WaitWindowOpen>Untitled – Notepad” + [Environment]::NewLine + “Wait>0.5” + [Environment]::NewLine + “Send>Hello World”, “”) $objMS.Cleanup() You […]