Macro Recording and Automating Windows with Macro Scheduler – Tips & News
So, unless you’ve been sleeping under a rock you’ll probably be aware that today is the day that Windows Vista gets it’s official upgrade in the form of Windows 7. We got our hands on a beta copy as soon as it became available to MSDN subscribers and back in January I was able to […]
As you may have noticed, in the last Macro Scheduler update we fixed a problem that prevented compiled macros from running on Chinese Windows. This probably affected other non-Western language versions of Windows too. It took us a while to track down this little bug even though, as is often the case, it turned it […]
Just received this email and had to share it. It’s notes like this that make it all seem worth it, especially at the end of a long week. 🙂 To ALL I’m sorry. I know I must sound like a broken record. But…… OMG!!! You guys are AWESOME!!! The LEVEL of Tech Support here is insane!! It […]
I never ceased to be amazed at some of the queries we get. This one came in today via Live Chat. Perhaps it was a joke: Weird. Now, I did wonder for a minute if the thesis had something to do with the use of Macro Scheduler or automation tools or similar, in which case […]
Back in January we were able to download the Windows 7 beta and I reported that Macro Scheduler 11 is fully compatible with Windows 7. Yesterday the final RTM (Release to Manufacturing) version was made available to MSDN subscribers and so today I upgraded my Vista desktop to Windows 7. I am pleased to report […]
Examples are examples not doctrine. In the topic on the “Release” command in the Macro Scheduler help file it mentions that to exit a program you might do: Press ALT Send>fx Release ALT This would hold down ALT while sending the f and x keys before releasing the ALT key again. Commonly this invokes the […]
Apologies for the quietness on my blog lately. This month has been a busy one for me personally as on 13th June I – finally – married my partner of 6 years (and the mother of my children), Angela, and went away for a short, but very relaxing, honeymoon last weekend. We at MJT have […]
I’m often asked how you can run Macro Scheduler macros from other programming languages, particularly VB. Macro Scheduler scripts can be run from the command line. See the help file topic “Command Line Options”. E.g.: msched.exe “c:\someplace\mymacro.scp” VB/VBA lets you execute external commands/applications via the Shell function: Shell “””c:\program files\macro scheduler 11\msched.exe”” “”c:\scripts\example.scp”””, vbNormalFocus […]
This month a fancy MJT Net logo T-Shirt goes to Rain for receiving 10 forum reputation points in May. Thanks, Rain, for your valuable contributions on the forums and for continuing to help others out. Don’t forget that each month I send T-Shirts to the people receiving the most reputation points in the previous […]
Some pre-sales questions we get seem to suggest that the user lacks basic Windows skills. What surprises me is that these questions are often from people working in company IT departments. Their ability to comprehend how to automate something appears to be diminished by their inability to use a PC effectively. Perhaps I’m being unfair […]