Macro Recording and Automating Windows with Macro Scheduler – Tips & News
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
Every now and then someone asks something like “How do I change the font in a modal dialog box?” or “Can I make an Input box multi-line?”. Well, no, you can’t do those things to the standard Message/MessageModal or Input box functions. But, don’t forget that with Macro Scheduler you have the ability to create […]
You may already be familiar with the Macro Scheduler debugger and know how to set code breakpoints. But did you know you can set variable breakpoints too? With a variable breakpoint you can cause execution to pause when a specified variable becomes equal to a given value. You will find the “Variable Breakpoints” option under […]
If you’re new to automating IE/websites with WebRecorder or the native Macro Scheduler IE functions you may be wondering how to determine which elements and attributes to use. In this video I demonstrate how to use IE’s F12 key to invoke Developer Tools and use that to quickly find the elements we’re interested in and […]
Macro Scheduler‘s ReadFile and ReadLn functions understand ANSI, UTF8 and Unicode files – as long as they have a valid BOM header. But a client recently needed to read in a file with a missing BOM. So we wrote a little bit of VBScript which reads the binary stream in, and then outputs a UTF8 […]
Did you know that since Macro Scheduler 14.2 the Macro Recorder can store snapshots of windows and objects that you click on as you are recording? This feature makes it easier to work out which bit of code does what as you can see the screenshots inside the script: Note the thumbnail images in the […]
Just a quick note to wish all our customers and readers of this blog good tidings for this festive season. Whether you celebrate this time of the year or not, we’ll be raising a glass to all of you. Forum regular JRL has put together this snazzy little Macro Scheduler script. Paste it into a […]
Today I was asked if Macro Scheduler can trigger an action if the number of connected monitors changes. Yes, all we need is a way to determine how many monitors are connected to the system. VBScript is one way to do that. So then all we need is a loop that constantly checks this value. […]
When you run code in the Script Editor you are in fact running it inside a debugger. This allows you to run code line by line or in chunks, and evaluate the values of your script variables in the watch list as you go. By default – after a first install – the debugger always […]