Marcus' Macro Scheduler Blog

We have today released maintenance build 14.1.05. This makes a few small fixes and improvements. For full details please see the version history page.

Available from the usual places:

Trial Downloads | Registered Downloads & Upgrades | New Licenses

We have today released Macro Scheduler update 14.1.04.

Version History | Trial Downloads | Registered Downloads | New Licenses

This update brings the following new features:

A new IE HTML Element Wizard

This looks very similar to the Find Object Wizard we added in 14.1, but works specifically against HTML elements in IE windows to output IETagEvent functions. Here’s a quick video showing it in action:

This handy feature vastly simplifies the process of figuring out tag names and attributes and in many cases removes the need to trawl through HTML source or use IE’s Developer Tools.

The ability to search the code builders

We’ve added a search box at the top of the Code Builder tree so that you can now search for functions.

The ability to use any custom icons for the system tray

In our last update we finally updated the branding of Macro Scheduler to use our “gearhead” icon. If you’d prefer to use the old icons – or any custom icons you like – you can now do so.

Simply drop two .ico files containing a 16×16 icon into the Macro Scheduler folder called mainicon.ico and runicon.ico. When Macro Scheduler starts it will use mainicon.ico as the default icon in the system tray. When a macro is running it will alternate this with runicon.ico.

We’ve also included the old icons with the installer. After installing Macro Scheduler 14.1.04 you will see a subfolder called “oldicons” in the program folder. Use these if you want the old tray icons.

Version History | Trial Downloads | Registered Downloads | New Licenses

After quite a few years we have finally upgraded the forum software to phpBB3. We had been stuck on an old unsupported phpBB2 release and in the interests of security and future support and maintenance we have now converted the forum to the latest phpBB3 release.

All being well you won’t notice any difference apart from a more modern look and feel. Your logins should still work as before and all your posts are intact. But any problems give us a shout.

There are some useful new features: the built in [code] .. [/code] tags now work without garbling the code and for larger scripts the new forum also now supports attachments. So if needed you can upload .scp files.

The new forums are accessible at http://www.mjtnet.com/forum/ although all old links should still work too.

We have today shipped maintenance build 14.1.03. Change History Here.

This build mostly fixes a few minor bugs but also has one fairly major change: We’ve replaced the application icons and system tray icon with our “Gearhead” logo ().

Why did we change the icon? Well we love that dude, and he represents what Macro Scheduler is all about!

More importantly, the main reason is consistency. As it stood the software didn’t fit with the brand image exhibited by the web site, which has become a product site pretty much dedicated to Macro Scheduler (I’d like to change the domain name to match but that’s a whole other story involving a lot of risk). It’s possible the old icons caused confusion to those who just downloaded the software from our website. In order to make the flow between website and software installation more seamless it made sense that software and website shared the same brand and therefore used the same logo.

We now have a fancy new Knowledge Base system. Check it out at:

help.mjtnet.com

To get things started we’ve moved over the FAQs, the video tutorials and gone through the blog for juicy articles we think should be in the knowledge base.

This new home puts all the support resources under one roof and there’s an easy way to email support if you can’t find what you are looking for.

We’ll be adding new articles on an ongoing basis and if there’s anything you think should be included, or you have an idea for a tutorial please do not hesitate to drop us a line.

You may have heard about the OpenSSL vulnerability called Heart Bleed. If not there’s some info here.

mjtnet.com is safe!

I just wanted to let you know that our servers have been patched with the latest update and are not vulnerable. As a precaution we also reissued our SSL certificate. The company we use for e-commerce transactions – WorldPay – is also safe and secure.