Macro Recording and Automating Windows with Macro Scheduler – Tips & News
If you work regularly on large macro files you should consider using a version control system. Remember that time when you made a few small changes to that 2000 line macro and it stopped working and you spent ages trying to figure out what you did and get it working again, losing a lot of […]
A customer just reported this issue: http://www.mjtnet.com/usergroup/viewtopic.php?p=17969 Seems Kaspersky must be intercepting emulated keystrokes and is slowing their progress. I’ve emailed Kaspersky to ask for a resolution. Until then if you are running Kaspersky Internet Suite you need to close it down completely to prevent this issue. Quite rightly you should be running a security […]
Sometimes I wonder if Macro Scheduler has outgrown its name. “Macro” seems too small a word, and “Scheduler” is just one small feature. It’s so much more than these two words suggest now. When version one was released there were less than 20 commands, purely for simulating user input and manipulating windows. No script editor, […]
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If you haven’t already heard about the Excel bug, open up Excel 2007 and try multiplying 77.1 with 850: =77.1*850 Clearly that should give you 65,535. But Excel 2007 returns 100,000. Oops. It turns out it’s just a presentational bug. The displayed result is wrong, but the underlying value is correct. If you were to […]
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I just stumbled across a couple of posts in another automation product’s forum where someone was asking how to perform date calculations in their automation routines. In Macro Scheduler you can add or subtract days to a date with one line of code. E.g.: Sub>date,1 Or, for more advanced date calculations and formatting, you can […]
Edauthier posted a script to the forum which invokes Merlin the Wizard with a little message for you. I had to make a few small changes. I also compiled it into an EXE. Here’s the code. Download a zip file containing the EXE. Just run it. Enjoy.