Macro Recording and Automating Windows with Macro Scheduler – Tips & News
A long time ago in a land far away called Windows 95 it was normal to store application settings and data in the program’s folder. Then Microsoft came out with all kinds of guidelines and the “correct” procedure was to use the registry. With a locked down standard user account, and with a default Vista […]
Macro Scheduler 11.1.06 is now available with the following fix: – Fixed: Removed rogue diagnostic message in DBQuery which would appear if use names parameter was present. Registered Downloads/Upgrades | Evaluation Downloads | New License Sales
Workflow Designer 2.1 is now available with the following changes: Added: Ability to export workflow diagrams to Macro Scheduler script files Added: Ability to add top/Left Rulers Updated MacroScript engine to 11.1.05 Change: Visio style grab handles Fixed: Opening Editor under Vista with UAC enabled would sometimes not work Fixed: Some unicode encoding issues Workflow […]
This month’s podcast interview is with Gale Dyvig of Seattle Children’s Hospital. Gale talks about why they chose Macro Scheduler for automating the testing of their systems running in a Citrix environment; why they chose to replace their existing HP WinRunner scripts with Macro Scheduler scripts; and how they are saving money on licenses and […]
Macro Scheduler 11.1.05 Update is now available with the following changes: Added: RegEx function with Perl and EasyPatterns support for search and/or replacement. Added: CopyFolder, DeleteFolder commands – actually just aliases for CopyFile and DeleteFile Added: Option in Debug Menu to change colour of debug line (Debug/Debug Line Color). Added: NULLCHAR system variable for null […]
I don’t know many people who find Regular Expressions easy. If the following makes no sense to you, don’t worry, you’re not alone: ([a-z0-9!#$%&’*+/=?^_`{|}~-]+(?:\.[a-z0-9!#$%&’*+/=?^_`{|}~-]+)*@(?:[a-z0-9](?:[a-z0-9-]*[a-z0-9])?\.)+[a-z0-9](?:[a-z0-9-]*[a-z0-9])?) It’s actually a regular expression pattern which will match an email address in a string. I’m sure you knew that. At present to use Regular Expressions in Macro Scheduler you have […]
Macro Scheduler 11.1.04 Update is now available with the following fixes: Fixed: Autologon failing to save password correctly Fixed: Backup on Save not working for standalone editor Fixed: Editor status bar not always reflecting modified status Fixed: Improvements to dialog block updating from “Update Dialog” menu Fixed: Debugger: Breakpoint after an Include not showing Include […]
Well I only announced the new forum reputation system on the 21st Jan, but I did say that awards will be made based on the previous month. So it was a short month last month. The top three reputation point winners, and the points awarded were as follows: mtettmar: 21 Me_again: 13 Bob Hansen: 10 […]
Macro Scheduler 11.1.03 Update is now available with the following fixes: – Compiled exes with NOSTOPKEY set will show APP_TITLE in tray icon hint – Fixed: Editor code folding/autoinsertion confused by nested subroutines – Fixed: Step Over (Shift-F8) not working Registered Downloads/Upgrades | Evaluation Downloads | New License Sales My apologies for another update so […]
Macro Scheduler 11.1.02 Update is now available with the following fixes: – Fixed: Access Violation when closing dialog editor if dialog has a MainMenu – Fixed: Clicking “type a hotkey” checkbox in macro properties didn’t cause warning to save changes if nothing else changed – Fixed: Compile Includes not including scripts specified with %SCRIPT_DIR% when […]