Macro Recording and Automating Windows with Macro Scheduler – Tips & News
Recently someone asked in the forums how to “Automatically Detect MS Office Install Location” so that they could run an Access macro. Well, there are ways to get the path of an installed Office application, but it isn’t necessary in order to run an Access macro. This is a rehash of my forum answer: You […]
This is a repost from 2006. One of the best ways to learn to use a software product fully is to try to automate it. Testers and automators have to learn the software’s interface really well, possibly better than the people who wrote it. Ok, the developers know the algorithms better than anyone else, but […]
If you’re new to automating IE/websites with WebRecorder or the native Macro Scheduler IE functions you may be wondering how to determine which elements and attributes to use. In this video I demonstrate how to use IE’s F12 key to invoke Developer Tools and use that to quickly find the elements we’re interested in and […]
We received this email today and I just had to share it … Macro Scheduler image recognition just saved me 6 hours of mind numbing work and my program took me about 15 minutes to write, test, and start using. Such an AWESOME solution you provide. Richard A. San Jose, CA USA For more info […]
Today I was asked if Macro Scheduler can trigger an action if the number of connected monitors changes. Yes, all we need is a way to determine how many monitors are connected to the system. VBScript is one way to do that. So then all we need is a loop that constantly checks this value. […]
Did you know there was a Macro Scheduler SDK? It allows you to run Macro Scheduler code from right within your own apps. You can run and interact with MacroScript code within VB, C++, C#, Delphi, VBScript … or any other programming language which lets you use a COM object or Win native DLL. It […]
Today we had two different support requests asking how to have a Macro Scheduler macro determine which page IE is on. One person was asking about using Image Recognition for that. You could also use the IE functions to examine the HTML or look for the existence of a specific HTML element. You could do […]
A while back someone was looking for a way to post from a macro to a facebook page. A few methods were mentioned. There’s another one which is easy and reliable and that is to use Zapier.com. I’ve made a video here to demonstrate how to set it up: But this demonstrates a lot more […]
In a support email recently I was asked how to record a macro to perform load testing. While you could certainly use the macro recorder for much of the process, in most cases you are probably going to want to insert some code to make the macro more dynamic in waiting for events to complete. […]
You might find that when you run a compiled macro and you also have Macro Scheduler running, Shift-Esc – the default stop key sequence – doesn’t stop the compiled macro. This is because the stop key sequence is a system wide hot key. And system wide hot keys can only be registered for use by […]