Category: General

Video Tutorial – Macro Scheduler for Non-Technical Beginners – Part 1

November 30, 2010 by Marcus Tettmar in Announcements, General, Tutorials

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 […]

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Support Email Rant

November 23, 2010 by Marcus Tettmar in General

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 […]

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Creating Native Function Aliases for Win32 Functions

November 15, 2010 by Marcus Tettmar in General, Scripting

The other day I posted a response on the forums which uses LibFunc to run the Win32 API function GetKeyState. This prompted someone to email me the following: I didn’t know the Win API call to check for a key being down. The API call works but have you considered adding a native MS command […]

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Associating a File Extension with a Compiled Macro

June 23, 2010 by Marcus Tettmar in General, Scripting

I have a few scripts which perform actions on files. Rather than have the script ask me what file to use, it is easier to associate the file type with the script so that I can just double click on the file (or right click and choose “Open with”) in Windows Explorer. For this to […]

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Weekly Forum Round-up

May 21, 2010 by Marcus Tettmar in Automation, General, Scripting, Testing

I thought I might start a weekly round up of some of the Macro Scheduler forum posts that caught my eye during the week. Not everyone gets a chance to browse the forums all the time, so it might help to link to some here. Then those that subscribe to the blog via RSS/Email will […]

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Sharing and Synchronizing Macros

May 20, 2010 by Marcus Tettmar in General

A new feature in Macro Scheduler 12 is the ability to easily share macros with other people on your network, or between desktops. It has long been possible to work outside of the Macro Scheduler interface and indeed many people already do this. You can use the standalone editor and run or edit macro script […]

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Using an Old Version? Time to Upgrade for Vista/Win7 Support.

April 23, 2010 by Marcus Tettmar in General, Macro Recorder

If you’re using an old version of Macro Scheduler, especially version 8 or lower, and like many others, you or your company are considering upgrading your Windows operating system to Vista or Windows 7 soon then you will need to consider upgrading Macro Scheduler too. Windows 7 adoption rates are outpacing those of Vista fast […]

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