Macro Recording and Automating Windows with Macro Scheduler – Tips & News
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
I received this in an email yesterday and just had to share it: “Thank you for a truly superior product! I used this at a previous place of employment and developed a system to autopopulate our very static software. When the software vender sent training staff they were so impressed they offered me a job! […]
For years now we’ve been making do with a less-than-perfect open source ticketing system. We’ve lived with missing attachments, emails not always getting through and the lack of embedded images, some garbled mime encodings and various other missing features. Finally we have a brand spanking new helpdesk. It’s over at help.mjtnet.com. You can still email […]
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Following my recent request for video tutorial contributions long-time Macro Scheduler user Peter Begelsdorf has stepped up to the plate and put together a short tutorial aimed at the non-technical beginner. This slick three minute video introduces the fundamental, yet very important, SendText and Press commands and shows beginners how to create a simple text […]
I received the following email today (I have paraphrased and anonymised it to protect the innocent): “We were given a Macro Scheduler script to run on our system that someone else wrote which we are trying to use with your trial version. It doesn’t work. Your product seems to be very flaky and unreliable. Is […]