Macro Recording and Automating Windows with Macro Scheduler – Tips & News
Note: Macro Scheduler 14.4 with OCR was released in October 2017. This post was written prior to that. A sneaky peak of some new Screen OCR functions we have in development: Please note that this feature is currently in development and therefore the syntax and final implementation may differ on release.
Prompted by a recent forum post from Phil Pendlebury the other day I have written a new article on using XMLParse in the knowledge base: Parsing XML with XMLParse and XPath Hope it’s helpful. I’m sure you’ll have more questions when you start using it in anger. So when you do, be sure to head […]
Did you know that we offer script development services? If you’re pushed for time or need a helping hand we can usually be of assistance. We often help people who don’t have the time or resource to build the automation themselves, or just want to get a jump start. What sort of things do we […]
As you will hopefully already know by now we added the ability to use Python code a while back in Macro Scheduler 14.2. A customer recently had a need to retrieve some data from a web service which requires some custom authentication headers to be sent with the request. It’s really easy to do this […]
Someone emailed today saying they were having problems trying to automate Internet Explorer 11 because it didn’t seem to have a window title. Actually IE11 does have a window title. Each tab has a different window title. But you don’t see the title in the main title bar of the application. By default applications show […]
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.
This is a repost. The original article is here. Most of the time when we are automating a process we are able to predict the sequence of events. We are working with a deterministic process and a linear flow of actions. But there are occasions when things can happen during a process that we cannot […]
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 […]
Are your macros reading from other files? Find out how to avoid hard coding file paths and use relative folders: http://help.mjtnet.com/article/167-relative-paths-for-portable-macros-explaining-scriptdir-and-bmpdir