Macro Recording and Automating Windows with Macro Scheduler – Tips & News
Macro Scheduler 12.1.7 is now available for download. This is a minor update to fix a small mistake in the help file (example for XLGetCell) and also an issue with the macro recorder which would fail to work if it had previously been cancelled after being started from within the Script Editor. Registered Downloads/Upgrades | […]
What Is The MacroScript SDK? The MacroScript Software Development Kit is a software component that allows developers to use the Macro Scheduler scripting language within their own applications. It comes in ActiveX and DLL form so that almost any programming language, including VB, C#, C++, Delphi, PowerBuilder, etc, can make use of it. It makes […]
We have a limited number of free WebRecorder licenses to give away with new licenses of Macro Scheduler Std and Pro. For details please see http://www.mjtnet.com/specials.htm Go grab yourself a bargain before they all go!
For the licensing mechanism for our ClipMagic product (ClipMagic is an easy to use Windows Clipboard Extender if you didn’t already know) we adopted a server based activation system. I know that some people have a passionate dislike for software that needs to be activated, but you can’t please everyone. And until now we’ve had […]
Some people have asked why they can’t change the colour of a button that they place onto a custom dialog. The short answer is that these buttons are standard Windows buttons and are drawn by Windows. And Windows has some “rules”. Microsoft lays down some design guidelines. Take a look at this document here which […]
I’ve seen quite a lot of requests lately from people wanting to know how to extract text from web pages. Macro Scheduler’s optional WebRecorder add-on simplifies the automation of web pages and includes functions for extracting tables, text or HTML from web page elements. WebRecorder’s Tag Extraction wizard makes it easy to create the code. […]
Macro Scheduler 12.1.6 is now available. This release includes a bonus new feature: Access to the Macro Recorder from within the editor. This means you can now record steps within the editor, with the recorded code being inserted at the current cursor position. This also means the macro recorder can be invoked multiple times to […]
Macro Scheduler 12.1.5 is now available with the following fixes since my last update announcement: Fixed: FTP_TIMEOUT not properly setting the connection timeout. Script Encryption not working and causing corrupt scripts. Workflow Designer and the SDK have also been updated to the same MacroScript version. Registered Downloads/Upgrades | Evaluation Downloads | New License Sales
What is Code Signing? Since XP, when you download an executable file from the Internet the browser checks the file’s Authenticode signature. This verifies who the publisher is. You get a dialog asking if you wish to download software from this publisher. If there is no signature the warning is more severe and it says […]
Several customers have written to us in the last couple of days reporting that the latest version of McAfee is detecting a “trojan” in the compiler (msrt.exe) that shipped with Macro Scheduler Pro v11. It also reports a virus in macros compiled with that version of the compiler. The virus reported is “Generic.dx!xdn”. The same […]