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Automating Google
This has come up a few times lately so I thought I’d post it here. One or two people have been asking about writing a Macro Scheduler script that performs a Google search and pulls back the resulting...
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Making your macros intelligent with If, Else, and Endif
I’m often asked how to make a macro behave differently based on certain criteria. The power and flexibility of Macro Scheduler makes this an easy task. There are hundreds of different reasons you might...
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Useless Box Kit
I rather like this. I though you might too: And it gives me an idea. This struck me as being rather like a hardware equivalent to the old “Hello World” type program most people start out with. I...
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Costly Mistake or Competitor Sabotage?
Microsoft advertising their advertising network using Google’s advertising network. Is this a typo from Microsoft or are Google having a chuckle. Either way Google are making money out these useless...
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PC Audio At Work – Screencasts
We’re finding screencasts more and more effective in a technical support and training role. But it occurs to me that not everyone has audio. At one of our large clients most PCs – even those in the...
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Winter Sale – 25% Off New Licenses
Get 25% off new Macro Scheduler licenses until the end of this month. For the rest of December 2013 we’re offering 25% off all new license sales. Just use the following coupon code: XMAS2013 This code...
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Print Excel File Automatically
Thanks to Alberto Voli for this little tip. The code below can be used to print an Excel file without having to manipulate the printer dialogs. It uses VBScript to interface with Excels’ COM object...
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Christmas Morning 1972 – Macro Scheduler Arcade – From JRL
Hope you all had a wonderful Christmas. I expect many of you are still enjoying some holiday time. Well if you are here’s some Macro Scheduler fun from forum regular JRL. Yes, it’s a two player 1970s...
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Happy New Year!
Happy New Year everyone! Apologies it’s a bit late. Our family Christmas and New Year was pretty full on and then just as things were meant to go back to “normal” I went down with tonsillitis. Seems...
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Macro Recorder or Automation Tool? How do you describe it?
When you tell people about Macro Scheduler how do you describe it? Do you call it an automation tool, a macro recorder, a script language, a data entry tool, an interface builder, a trained monkey, or...
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Reading from System Event Logs
Just been asked how to read from the system event log (what you see in Windows Event Viewer) using Macro Scheduler. As it happens there’s already an example of monitoring the event log for specific...
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Please Share and Help us Get The Word Out
In forum post “Is it a Macro Recorder, is it an Automation Tool, or ….” Antonius asks how we can make Macro Scheduler more popular. This is not the first time I’ve been asked this. The easiest and...
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Problems Sending Keystrokes to Citrix?
If you’re seeing odd results when trying to send keys to Citrix Receiver windows try going into legacy mode: Let>SK_LEGACY=1 Send>some text Related posts:Paste Into Object Without Using Keystrokes
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Youtube Page Facelift
Thanks to Dorian our youtube channel is looking great: http://www.mjtnet.com/youtube This is the home of all our videos, including video tutorials which you’ll also find here. Related posts:New Video...
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From the Archives – Code Signing Your EXEs
Do you know what code signing is? Want to prevent those “unknown publisher” warnings that might pop up when you or your clients download and run your compiled macros? Then you need a Code Signing...
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Macro Scheduler 14.1 Available
Macro Scheduler 14.1 is now available. Here’s a summary of changes in Macro Scheduler 14.1: New UI Automation functions for manipulating “Accessible” objects (UI Automation Elements). New FindObject...
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Recursion – Get A List of All Subfolders
Someone was asking how to get a list of subfolders. You can do that with the GetFileList command by setting GFL_TYPE to 1. That gives you the folders in the specified path. But it turns out he wanted a...
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Why doesn’t SHIFT-ESC stop my compiled macros?
You might find that when you run a compiled macro and you also have Macro Scheduler running, Shift-Esc – the default stop key sequence – doesn’t stop the compiled macro. This is because the stop key...
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Announcing Code Snippets
Have you ever tried to send a piece of Macro Scheduler code (or any other code for that matter) to someone by email or instant messaging, or even in a forum, and found that it gets mangled? HTML strips...
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