Macro Recording and Automating Windows with Macro Scheduler – Tips & News
Before Macro Scheduler existed I was a junior member of an IT department. As part of my job I built small tools to automate specific tasks. At the time I was using VB. Each time I had to automate a task I had to reinvent the wheel a little. The whole point of Macro Scheduler […]
Just a quick note to say Happy New Year to all our customers. This year will be our 21st year of selling Macro Scheduler. I think that’s pretty amazing. Thanks for all your support over the years and for continuing to use Macro Scheduler. It’s always great to hear how Macro Scheduler helps in your […]
Our longstanding customers will know we’ve never really been into jargon here at MJT. Jargon in the IT industry tends to come and go. And there’s something quite amusing about a term that pops up and is touted as being some amazing new thing when it simply describes something we’ve been doing here at MJT […]
A customer filing PayPal disputes rather than emailing us and then, despite confirming that they have the software, failing to cancel the dispute and PayPal finding in their favour, leaving us out of pocket! PayPal is costly and causes so many accounting headaches it isn’t true. I’ve a good mind to remove it from our […]
Happy New Year! A somewhat belated new year greeting, but one that comes with the realisation that this year marks the 20th year of Macro Scheduler. The first version was released way back in 1997! 20 years! Quite amazing. It all happened by accident really and I certainly didn’t expect it to still be going […]
Did you know you can create script templates to use when you create new macros in Macro Scheduler? When you create a new macro you can choose File/New Macro from Template. This allows you to browse for a .scp file to use as a template. There are some pre-built templates in the Templates subfolder of […]
It’s always nice to receive unsolicited praise. I thought I would share this with you which was sent into us from one of our customers, Lee Hightire: “You have an Incredibly Awesome product! I just used the Image Recognition tool to help me get at an item in the Sys Tray (needed to pause syncing […]
Over in the forums dtaylor has posted a script library which allows you to show a small notification window in the lower right of your screen. Useful for reporting on progress during your script, in loops etc. Grab it here.
Here’s a way to get screen text from any application – even from an image – using OCR and a free open source tool called Tesseract. First, you need to download and install Tesseract. You can get it here. Tesseract is a command line utility. The most basic syntax is: tesseract.exe input_image_file output_text_file So you […]
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 […]