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I did the following. I looked for a large txt file on my system that is widely distributed. The first one I saw was win32api.txt. I found it in Program files\Microsoft Visual Studio\Common\Tools\winapi. It was 667,783 KB and dated 6 18 98. Presumably this is a clean text file with no special characters. I copied a one character string into the clipboard and viewed the clipboard with clipboard viewer to verify that it contained the one byte string. I then loaded win32api.txt into wordpad. I verified the last line: Const BF_MONO = &H8000 ' For monochrome borders. I loaded the file into the old WordPerfect editor. I saw the same last line. I did a control A to select all the text in Wordpad. Note that I am selecting text from the screen. I ran a Macro Express macro that did a clipboard copy command followed by a save clipboard to file command. I viewed the clipboard with editor2, the editor program in the xplorer2 file manager package. I like the package because its dual pane display looks and works much like the old DOS WordPerfect file manager program. I have a ME macro that executes the program and pastes the clipboard. I looked at the last line. It was the line about monochrome borders. I saved the file from editor2 as a text file. The file size was 667,684. I will over look the 1 byte difference for present purposes. This results tells me that the ME copy clipboard command in my macro worked. I then looked at the file saved with the macro express save to text file command. The size is 64,002, again suggesting there is a 64 K limit in ME limiting the size of the file saved.. I then looked at the clipboard with Windows 98 clipboard viewer. That program seemed to have a different last line every time I executed it and it was only a faction of the file save by ME. I couldn't understand why it seemed to work differently each time I used it. I opened WordPad again and pasted the clipboard into it. All of the file was there. My OS is Win 98 SE. It looks to me like something in the ME save clipboard to text file is not working right.

I have a ME macro to save what I block on the screen in Windows as a text file. I noticed some missing material. I looked at the clipboard with clipboard viewer, and everything was there. I saved it to a text file and it was 267 K. I wrote a ME macro consisting of only the save clipboard to text file command and executed it. The file was only 64 K and incomplete, what I had observed before. The ME help documentation contains no warning that save text command is limited to 64 K. This sucks big time. 64 K is not a lot of anything. Who knows now what I have failed to copy before? How can I know whether what I have blocked exceeds 64 K and I am going to lose something if I use my ME macro?

In preferences, explorer, scripting editor and explorer, you can set fonts and colors. However, the settings do not include one for the remarks in scripting editor. They appear dark blue on my system and are hard to read with a black background Windows color seheme. I found HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Insight Software Solutions\Macro Express\Fonts and the font and color settings there. However, I didn't find the remarks dark blue. I looked through the rest of the key and didn't find anything. Does anyone know how to change the dark blue of the remarks?

I tried some Google searches to see if I could find postings in this group but came up empty handed. I searched Floyd Watergil's name and found some of his notes on the web site but no postings on this group. I tried both Google web and Google groups. This group should be Google available.

The short keys with a blank prefix code would let me use the alphabetic keys so I could clone another viewer program to the Irfin view alphabetic commands, but that wouldn't solve the problem for the key I need the most, the backspace key.

My ME will not let me assign certain keys as activation keys, including tab, enter, backspace, and the 5 on the numeric keyboard. It also will not let me assign regular alphabetic, shift alphabetic, and numeric keys. I could put many of these to good use. In particular, I would like to use some alphabetic and backspace keys in viewer programs, where otherwise the keystrokes go into the bit bucket. Is there a reason that ME limits the activation keys? Is it technical? Or has no one asked for, or demanded, it?

Using Macro Express 3.5.c build 1, installed March, 2005, and Opera 7.52, installed approx. June 2004, and Win 98 SE, not changed lately, I have encountered the following. Sometimes after executing a ME macro in a text box in an internet form with Opera, the form locks up. I cannot enter anything in the form, either keystrokes or mouse clicks. Today it happened with a simple 4 keystroke macro. The macro used the clipboard. Other applications, including Opera in other pages and ME outside the form, continue to function. The problem lies only with the text box in the form. The problem doesn't seem to be reproducible. Resetting the hooks doesn't help. Also I have had ME simply die on me several times recently. It won't respond to keystrokes from any application. When I terminate and restart it, it works fine. I don't remember when ME ever did that before. Today, for the first time, the ME editor was in the task bar, frozen, and I terminated ME from the system tray. The ME box remained in the task bar, but when I clicked it the ME screen would appear partially. I recently installed Thunderbird and Courier. Is anyone else noting any similar problems?

I have a mouse activacted macro. I have set Windows to use single clicking. I am using it with Opera 7.52 to click on links in web pages. I have a mouse activated program specific macro. The macro sets shift down to open the link in a new page. I have discovered that Opera gets the click and that Macro Express does not keep the click from Opera. I know this because I discovered that if I put a click in the macro, the link opens in two windows. Thus my macro consists of a shift down, a delay of 800 ms. empirically determined, and then a shift up and no mouse click. This macro works works about 60 % of the time. The first question that I have goes to how is a mouse activated macro supposed to work? Is the macro supposed to be something concurrently executed with what the application does on a click? Or, is Macro Express supposed to trap the click and pass on to the application only what the macro wants to do? Or is this not a question of what Macro Express is supposed to do but one of what the other programs do and whether or not they get ahead of Macro Express in the chain? I looked but could not find any settings anywhere apparently relating to these issues.