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Newsletter Subscriptions
I’ve only just discovered that our newsletter subscriptions system has been broken since last January! New customers and anyone signing up to our newsletter since 15th January 2015 were not correctly...
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Macro Scheduler 14.2.08 Update
Macro Scheduler Maintenance release 14.2.08 is now available for download. Links: Version History | Registered Downloads | Trial Downloads | New Licenses Related posts:Macro Scheduler 14.2.07...
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Customizing Message/Input Boxes
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...
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4k UHD Monitor Support
I thought it was about time for an update. We are currently working on improving Macro Scheduler’s UI appearance under 4k UHD monitors. These screens are becoming more common, especially since the...
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Macro Scheduler 14.3 Is Here – UI Refresh
We have today released Macro Scheduler 14.3. This version has had a UI refresh with new, larger toolbar buttons. It has also had a lot of behind the scenes work done to make it more usable and look...
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Why it’s Good to Automate [Repost]
This is a repost from 2006. One of the best ways to learn to use a software product fully is to try to automate it. Testers and automators have to learn the software’s interface really well, possibly...
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What do you want to see in Macro Scheduler?
What would you like to see added to Macro Scheduler? Comment below. Related posts:Macro Scheduler 14.2.07 AvailableMacro Scheduler 14.2.08 UpdateMacro Scheduler 14.2.04 Available
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Relative Paths for Portable Macros – SCRIPT_DIR and BMP_DIR Explained [Recap]
Are your macros reading from other files? Find out how to avoid hard coding file paths and use relative folders:...
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How to Run an Access Macro from Macro Scheduler
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...
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Capture Screen Text using OCR
Here’s a way to get screen text from any application – even from an image – using OCR and a free open source tool called Tesseract. First, you need to download and install Tesseract. You can get it...
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OnEvent – Dealing with Indeterminate Dialogs – [Repost]
This is a repost. The original article is here. Most of the time when we are automating a process we are able to predict the sequence of events. We are working with a deterministic process and a linear...
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Macro Scheduler 14.2.04 Available
I am pleased to announce that Macro Scheduler maintenance update 14.2.04 is now available. Links: Version History | Registered Downloads | Trial Downloads | New Licenses Related posts:Macro Scheduler...
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Fix Unicode file with missing BOM
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....
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Macro Scheduler Gearhead Spotted Again in Forza
Thanks again to Chris Henwood for designing another stunning livery. This time for this virtual Aussie V8 Dorian is driving in Forza Motorsport: Dorian is racing this car twice a week. Good luck...
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Finding HTML Attributes For Automating Web Sites
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...
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BlackFriday Deal
So it’s Black Friday. Sounds so gloomy. A day where many appear to go mad and gorge. There’ll be no extra discounts from us today, but what we will do is donate 10% of today’s sales to The Woodland...
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Variable Breakpoints
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...
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Macro Scheduler 14.2.06 Available
I am pleased to announce that Macro Scheduler maintenance update 14.2.06 is now available. Links: Version History | Registered Downloads | Trial Downloads | New Licenses Related posts:Macro Scheduler...
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Happy New Year!
A slightly belated Happy New Year to all our customers and supporters. I’m a little late getting this up as we are in the midst of an office move! So things are a little hectic. But wanted to say thank...
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