Category: Tutorials

Parsing XML with XMLParse and XPath

July 26, 2017 by Marcus Tettmar in Announcements, Scripting, Tutorials

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 […]

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Undocumented Internal Dialog Event Parameters

February 8, 2011 by Marcus Tettmar in Scripting, Tutorials

In this forum post Armsys asks how he can determine which key the user pressed in an OnKeyPress dialog event handler. The solution I posted reveals an undocumented feature: Internal event parameters. While there is a sample macro called “Dialogs – MouseOver” which ships with Macro Scheduler and demonstrates these event parameters, they are missing […]

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Video Tutorial – Custom Dialogs Part 2

January 10, 2011 by Marcus Tettmar in Tutorials

Happy New Year All! And to start the new year here is part 2 of the Custom Dialogs Tutorial I promised last month. In this 24 minute video I expand on what we did in part 1 to look at check boxes, combo boxes, setting property values at runtime, method event handlers and consider how […]

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Video Tutorial – An Introduction to Custom Dialogs

December 16, 2010 by Marcus Tettmar in Tutorials

A frequent request has been a video tutorial on creating and using dialogs. There’s a lot to dialogs and it’s impossible to address everything in one video so here’s a 10 minute introduction to get started with: You might want to click here to view a larger size video, or click the full screen icon […]

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Video Tutorial – Macro Scheduler for Non-Technical Beginners – Part 1

November 30, 2010 by Marcus Tettmar in Announcements, General, Tutorials

Following my recent request for video tutorial contributions long-time Macro Scheduler user Peter Begelsdorf has stepped up to the plate and put together a short tutorial aimed at the non-technical beginner. This slick three minute video introduces the fundamental, yet very important, SendText and Press commands and shows beginners how to create a simple text […]

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