Macro Recording and Automating Windows with Macro Scheduler – Tips & News
Macro Scheduler 13.2 Update is now available with the following changes: Added: IEGetTagsByAttrib function Added: IETagEventByAttrib function Added: SSL Support to RetrievePOP3 Added: SSL Support to SMTPSendMail Added: HTTP_CHARSET variable to override charset decoding (e.g. for XML) Added: HTTP_USERAGENT variable to set user agent to string of choice Fixed: Suppress unnecessary ftp errors on ftp […]
Today I was asked how the outcome of a button click on a custom dialog could be altered if the ALT or CTRL key was pressed down at the time of the click. This is possible by trapping the dialog’s OnKeyDown and OnKeyUp handlers. Using these we can detect if ALT or CTRL is pressed/released […]
Some people have reported issue with the GetListItem command failing to work with some applications. While we investigate the issues we’ve created a small workaround. This is a .Net tool called ListInspector. It’s a command line tool which you can pass a listbox handle to and it will dump out a list of all the […]
In the forums this morning PepsiHog asked for some code to sort a string of numbers. We have a built-in method for sorting arrays. But here we want to sort a string of characters. E.g. we want the string “4731” to end up as “1347”. I ended up writing a reusable subroutine which will sort […]
Despite our FAQs we get asked a version of the following question at least once a week: “I just wrote my first macro with Macro Scheduler and it works great but if I lock Windows it stops working, is this a limitation of the trial version”. My most recent answer to this was as follows: […]
We have a growing list of freelance script developers which we draw from whenever we receive a request for local assistance. If you are a freelance script developer and would like to be considered for potential projects please drop me a line with your details and a summary of your experience so that we can […]
I recently wrote a small macro for a customer which does an HTTPRequest via SSL. This requires that OpenSSL is installed. But the customer wanted to know if there was any way of distributing the macro to his users without having to install OpenSSL on all their PCs. Thanks to our wonderful forums one of […]
Macro Scheduler 13.1.06 maintenance release is now available. History Evaluation Downloads Registered Downloads
Macro Scheduler 13.1.05 maintenance release is now available. History Evaluation Downloads Registered Downloads
Over on the forums JRL asks how to get into the “Programming Zone” and once there how do you stay in it and cope with distractions and interruptions? Any tips? Add your thoughts and suggestions to the topic.