Thanks for the fast response. Then apparently the message sending process itself is blocking. Does that also depend on the app or is perhaps a timeout possible?
The key/click alternative is less reliable, that's why I switches to push.

I have a PushButton like the one below. This one clicks on the Connect button of a regular windows Network Connection dialog. It looks like pushbutton is waiting for something before it returns. If the modem of the dial connection is not working then windows waits for something like one and a half m...

The help topic for GetTime says: "The format of the time depends on the regional settings of the system." The help topic for GetDate says: "The format of the date depends on the regional settings of the system." [... deleted tex ....] .... and more to the point it is as documented as can be seen fr...

Thanks, indeed that works. So the compiled cript on XP gives consistent results now when running on XP and on Win7s (both UK and NL). The only remark I'd like to make is that little by little I have to embed a lot of functionality in subroutines to get rid of side effects of and sometimes of bugs I ...

........ The great thing about the Macro Scheduler functions is that they are portable without the need to worry about the individual PC's regional settings........ Perhaps this is a bug then. It is a compiled script on win XP, that runs OK, in 24H format on XP. When I run that script on win 7, it ...

I'd like some extra features in the debugger - double click on a variable in the source, highlights that variable in the watch list - a possibility to change the value of a variable when debugging - skip the current line (goto the next sequential line) - insert a new break point when debugging - ins...

My win 7 has been set to English (UK). Date and time format in regional settings are: dd/MM/yyy and HH:mm
examples 10/9/2010 (tenth of sep) and 17:30 hour

Getdate>and getime> in MS display 9/10/2010 and 5:28:47 PM

Any way to make the MS output the same as the system settings?

.............. Macro Scheduler's subroutines are just subroutines. Not functions. Functions return a result. Subroutines don't. They also can't be called inline in a calculation. They are just blocks of code you can call for convenience. Hence why you can't really do this recursively in MacroScript...

Explicit strings: Let>mystring={"hello world"} Or Send>{"this is a string"} MessageModal>{"definitely a string"} Indeed, and I use that, however - I thought that {} is used for complex expressions, any penalty or side effect of using it for strings? - That only resolves the 'this is a string' resol...

I did not go through all resolutions, you could easily write the executable statements and check the result by using MDL>. It does trigger though a thought about string and substitution. MS now supports at least 2 modes: - Automatic, substitution takes place whenever a variable has an assigned value...

Indeed I meant comment on the same line. And agree that lines starting with a comment ; are already being skipped by MS. To make the discussion less abstract, this is the code I currently use. Since I recently 'discovered' how regular expressions are implemented and work in MS, I might replace this ...

Wikipedia INI information ..... If you are reading INI files created by other applications, since there are conflicting "rules", you will have to write your code to deal with INI file idiosyncrasies you encounter. In that case wouldn't it be very helpful if ReadIniFile would have a filth parameter:...

Since we are on INI files. I found an other issue. Remarks are commonly introduced by a semicolon in ini files. When reading the value of an ini var, the comments comes with it for free. I strip those off by demanding that comments are preceded by at least one tab. Or is there any other formal comme...

Just wanted to report two differences/solutions I had on windows 7. 1. On win XP my GetTextAtPoint executes as expected. On windows 7 it gave no result o the same form (result offset -1). As suggested in the manual, I had to use GetTextReset on win7 to make it working. 2. The second difference might...

My original question should read "Scope rules of variables after LOCALVARS=0? in stead of focusing on reading and on local variables only. There is nothing in the documentation about that general issue. Here is another result, where an assignment to a local variable of the previous level (the caller...