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  1. After another Win 10 update overnight my desktop background image (whatever it is, solid or other) is cropped and confined to the left half of the screen.

     

    And now MX's Explorer window suffers the same behaviour as the script window.

     

    A PC restart thankfully appears to have restored my desktop to normal behaviour. But whatever it's done to cause the MX irritation remains.

     

    In case it's of help to anyone else I've attached a screenshot showing likely WU culprits:

    WU-ScreenProblem-1.jpg

  2. Hi all,

     

    Just want to exclude MX Pro as the cause of the following odd behaviour. For a few weeks when I now open the Script Editor it always displays in a central medium sized window (space on all sides). Attempts to get it back to its regular (20;year old?) position on the right of my Win 10 screen so far in vain. Anyone seen similar?

     

    No big deal - I have a macro that repositions, resizes and sets width of panes - but I fret over unsolved puzzles. 🙂

     

    Terry, East Grinstead, UK

  3. 11 hours ago, acantor said:

    I also saw high CPU-usage with the delay, and little (or no) effect with the timed delay.

     

    Thanks Alan. What version? Any evidence the usage has increased recently? I use a lot of delays (probably more than necessary). Much shorter than that being discussed, of course, but this has me wondering if brief CPU surges could affect other work.

  4. 14 hours ago, rberq said:

    My version of ME is 4.9.  I don't know why you can't run multiple macros simultaneously -- unless you are using the "lock player" command???

     

    I've investigated and pleased to find that I was mistaken.

     

    An untypical situation. I'd set it to 40 mins instead of the regular 2 or 3. (Failure to collect wife from railway station more serious than over-brewing my teabag.) Decided to use the simple macro hotkey instead of editing one of my more complex alarms - the sort we discussed recently. Its reminder message was still running when I returned to PC hours later. Thought I'd confirm my assumption that it didn't prevent other macros working. So ran a simple shortkey macro in my text editor. That failed to type its string. And again. But my conclusion was too hasty. That (and several of my scores of shortkey macros) have occasionally been unreliable before. That was the cause! 😉

     

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    I've used the ultra simple macro below for years. (Usually to remind me - engrossed on PC - to remove tea bag from freshly poured mug of tea.) But I've just noticed this morning that it was consuming over 12% of my CPU. Must be the Delay command. Perhaps since recent update to version 6.4.0.1? Cannot pursue until I get back later home later but meanwhile wonder if one of you could try it please?
    Tuesday 18 October 2022, 0928.

    
    Variable Set Integer %nMinutes%: Prompt
    Delay: %nDelay% seconds
    Variable Modify Integer: %nDelay% = %nMinutes% * 60
    Delay: %nDelay% seconds
    Sound File: Alarm-Classic.wav
    Text Box Display: 
    
    
    <VARIABLE SET INTEGER Option="\x01" Destination="%nMinutes%" Prompt="Enter the time delay required in minutes before the alarm should be heard." Mask="FALSE" OnTop="TRUE" Left="Center" Top="Center" Monitor="0"/>
    <DELAY Flags="\x01" Time="%nDelay%"/>
    <VARIABLE MODIFY INTEGER Option="\x02" Destination="%nDelay%" Value1="%nMinutes%" Value2="60"/>
    <DELAY Flags="\x01" Time="%nDelay%"/>
    <SOUND FILE File="C:\\Users\\terry\\Sounds\\Sound Effects\\Alarm-Classic.wav" Wait="FALSE" _PROMPT="0x0007"/>
    <TEXT BOX DISPLAY Content="{\\rtf1\\ansi\\ansicpg1252\\deff0\\deflang2057{\\fonttbl{\\f0\\fnil\\fcharset0 Tahoma;}{\\f1\\fnil Tahoma;}}\r\n\\viewkind4\\uc1\\pard\\qc\\b\\f0\\fs58 %nMinutes% mins\\fs16 \r\n\\par \r\n\\par \\fs58 Finished\\b0\\f1\\fs16 \r\n\\par }\r\n" Left="Center" Top="Center" Width="278" Height="200" Monitor="0" OnTop="TRUE" Keep_Focus="TRUE" Mode="\x00" Delay="0"/>

     

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  6. Thanks guys, appreciate both fast replies. I'll take a look at Task Scheduler if MX doesn't cut the mustard.

     

    Without sound (a serious downside) I suppose I could settle for leaving the alert message displayed for those hours. Surprisingly even that did not work on first attempt. I entered an arbitrary value of 18 in the 'Stay on screen for'  box, and assumed that the following two-liner would display the message for that time.

     

    Sound File: Alarm-Beeps.wav
    Text Box Display: Action
    
    CODE
    <SOUND FILE File="C:\\Users\\terry\\Sounds\\Sound Effects\\Alarm-Beeps.wav" Wait="FALSE" _PROMPT="0x0007"/>
    <TEXT BOX DISPLAY Title="Action" Content="{\\rtf1\\ansi\\ansicpg1252\\deff0\\deflang2057{\\fonttbl{\\f0\\fnil\\fcharset0 Tahoma;}}\r\n\\viewkind4\\uc1\\pard\\qc\\b\\f0\\fs72 Action alert\r\n\\par }\r\n" Left="390" Top="485" Width="783" Height="421" Monitor="0" OnTop="TRUE" Keep_Focus="TRUE" Mode="\x01" Delay="18"/>

     

    But no, it seems a delay of at least that duration is also needed:

     

    Sound File: Alarm-Beeps.wav
    Text Box Display: Action
    Delay: 30 seconds

     

    Maybe I'm being over fussy? But a regular Text Box Display needs to be manually dismissed before the macro continues. Yet with this option it apparently continues regardless.

     

    Enjoy your holiday, Cory.

  7. I may be making heavy weather of this, but although I've used MX Pro's neat alarm macros frequently for years, this one has me struggling to configure. I want a weekly alert every Monday at 1 pm and then every hour until 8 pm that day. Life's too short to re-invent stuff, so has anyone here set an alarm like that please and happy to share? Or is it only possible with multiple macros?

     

    BTW,  is there still an internal 'sounder' in modern PCs? Like the one that I recall gave coded 'beeps' when boot-up failed due to serious faults? If so, can MX Pro play it, so that I'll still get alerted when my speakers are not switched on?

    WeeklyAlarm.jpg

  8. 46 minutes ago, rberq said:

     

    In the last couple days, I got half a dozen forum emails pointing me to links for naked ladies.  I was not unduly distressed.  But I'm guessing the forum site was compromised in some way, and is now in the process of being rebuilt. 


    I’ll be making a formal complaint then, as I didn’t get those emails.

  9. Alan,

     

    Could you try your macro with a few deeper paths please? Here my version fails with folders such as this:

    C:\Users\terry\Dropbox\A folder for temp stuff

     

    Yet it opened this OK:

    C:\Users\terry\Dropbox\Electronics\Arduino\SKETCHES\My Sketches\MY SKETCHES 2021\DFMiniSD Sketches

     

    It's also failing with one of yours I used unchanged, namely C:\

    Interestingly our window titles for that differ too, as you see.

     

     

     

     

    C-AlanTerry.jpg

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