Alexis

Argh, that was a tough one. DNS does not accept long (normal) path names. This one works fine: ShellExecute (""c:\progra~2\Macroe~1\MeProc.exe" /AName of Macro"); So every DNS User: Have fun commanding you pc! Thank You Alexandra

This can be done using Dragon Naturally Speaking. If you don´t use DNS Professional which has already scripting options you can install the Addon Vocola which provides a lot of those scripting tools. It´s easy to let Vocola "type" hotkeys and trigger macros that way. But it also offers a ShellExecute Command (with arguments) which seems to be perfect to trigger macros without the need to assign a hotkey but by using the known commandline: "c:\program files\Macro Express3\MeProc.exe" /AName of macro Unfortunately i still haven´t figured out how to spell this command 100% correctly. So if anyone of you uses DNS and would like to aktivate some macros via voice i would love to go the way with you! Thank You Alexandra

Thank you Kevin for taking the time! I think it would be great to add Speaking abilities to MEX. Maybe it is not necessary to update SpeakIt if other engines are available/installable which can be addressed by MEX Pro Commands. At the moment i don´t know one. Actually i´m coding a "voice understanding" expert system in MEX at the moment. More for educational / fun reasons than for pro-use. You should be able to talk freely to this macro which is kind of understanding you. For this, i need voice understandig and speaking abilities. The understanding is done by Dragon Naturally Speaking 11.5 Premium and the DNS-Addon Vocola. The speaking part is done by voice reader from Inlingua which has a pretty realistic voice. Unfortunately i haven´t figured out how to use the ShellExecute Command in Vocola to trigger a certain MEX Pro Macro. I tried the "c:\program files\Macro Express3\MeProc.exe" /AName of Macro approach in various ways but it does not work. I´ll post seperately for this. Thank You Alexandra

I tried this addon SpeakIt while i was using Macro Express 3. Does it work with Macro Express Pro on Win 7 also? Does it support output in German also? If not, is there a workaround available to enable an spoken feedback preferably in German by MEX Pro? Thank You Alexandra

I would like to bring up a window on top of the screen (not activate). I do this via a macro using the "Set window order" - commands which work most of the time. If the window is already on top i would like to do the macro something else. So while i know there is a If command which can check for focus is there any way to recognize if a window is already on top or it is placed behind other ones? Thank You Alexandra

Just tried it. Well that is a great idea! A clever workaround bypassing the limits of those apps. So i can run any macro by just sending a few keystrokes! I thought shortkeys only work in a window where you can actually type. But this does not seem to be true. They work always. You just have to make sure that your typing does not cause any conflicts in the active window, right? Thank You very much Alexandra

Thanks Cory so far. As iPads are widely used i would like to elaborate on the two apps which allow to define your own Keyboard Layouts. Those are Keypad Pro and Custom Keypad Both are limited to sending Keystrokes and Mousemovements to the PC. They do this pretty fast (latencyfree) via using a VNC Server. As the buttons are sizeable, colourable and you can give those a name or even an icon it´s tempting to start some macros of those. The 2 apps can not launch applicatons nor execute commandlines! So i thought of the following solutions if it comes to triggering new or existing macros. The solutions differ in speed and flexibilty. 1. Every Appbutton sends a different keycombination. For such keycombination a macro is defined. 2. Like 1 but the only macro command is Run Macro "XYZ" 3. Appbutton sends a keycombination and a text after it. It starts a macro where the macro has a "Set Stringvariable from prompt" as the first command. The Keypad types a name of an macro in which is executed via a Run Macro: - command. 1 is not very flexible and you have to find a free keycommand. But the macro will be executed as fast as started from the PC-keyboard. 2 Here you can easily change which macro is executed. It is almost as fast as 1. But you also need free keycombination for every button! 3 does only need one global keycommand. The macro is specified through the text input delivered from the keypad. This will slow down the start of the macro. Also Custom Keypad is limited to 11 steps (keystrokes. Clipboard is not supported) and it is really painful to program those steps. Those are the best ideas i came up so far. Thank You Alexandra

Sorry but i don´t get your answer. To work in any case with the variable which is the macro index number there should be a command which allows to start macros by those numbers, no? Thank You Alexandra

I would like to start macros via Keypad Pro from the iPad. Unfortunately the number of keystrokes there is limited to 11. As many macronames are longer i would like to run macros by the index number (3-4 digits). Is this possible somehow? Thank You Alexandra

I experience the same problem. It is quite annoying. Thank You Alexandra

Oh &/$§@ no! I like to reread some of my old posts as i get the same problems again. Sometimes i´m just not aware of a solution given to a seldom occuring problem 2 years ago. So, there is no chance to get access to the older posts, or? So i like to apologize in advance for repeating old questions! Alexandra

Interesting! Now as i see it it looks quite obvious, but i´m sure it would have taken me some time to figure that out. I was searching for the appropriate command. For me actually approach 1 is enough. I´m glad they implemented that Split String-command a while ago. Maybe some more variable-commands would help avoiding those clever workarounds. Thank You Alexandra

Ah, perfect! Have not been in the prefs for ages. Brief and clear help, like always Cory! Thank You Alexandra

Can anybody with old posts verify this behaviour? Thank You Alexandra

Hi everybody, is it possible to copy MEX Pro Settings like defined Snippets or Favorite commands? Where are those stored? Thanks for helping Alexandra

Hi everybody, i wonder how to distinguish between string and integer variables. I need an Logic-If command which can do that. If letters are included in a stringvariable the macro should do something else then if the stringvariable consist of or contains numbers. Thanks for helping Alexandra

My profile shows the number of 162 posts. If i search for my topics only 3 are found. Have all my other 159 topics been deleted? Why? Thank You Alexandra

Thanks Paul, is this true for my scenario too? I never mentioned global macros but programspecific vs windowspecific ones. Thank You Alexandra

Sorry Kevin, i was not precise. I do use MEX Pro. Actually i did forget that MEX Pro is capable of running more than one macro at the time. I admit i have no idea how this works. One after another? That may cause the problem. I have the following scenario. I have a lot of programspecific macros with certain hotkeys like ALT + E for example. I do want those to work but want to have some other specific macros to run instead if the program has this specific window title. What is the most efficient way to do this? Of course i could code an "if window-title"-check into the programspecific macro but than i would have two macros in one which i find confusing. I guess a kind of option in the settings like "prefer windowspecific scopes over programspecific" would be good. It would minimize the effort. Only the few exceptions would have to be programmed and you would save hotkeys which i am running out of lately. At least easy to press and to memorize ones. Thank You Alexandra

Hmm, i´m almost sure that in the description of MEX it says: "Only one macro can run at the same time."

Thank you Kevin for the quick answer. I thought so. It makes sense. My problem was that another macro which was programspecific was enabled. What actually happens if you have two macros one programmspecific the other one windowspecific but using the same program? To me it would make sense that the windowspecific is prefered to run. But it´s not that way, or? Thank You Alexandra

Does windowspecific macros continue if the active windowtitle changes? I wanna start a macro windowspecific but within the macro running another window (intented) gets the active window. Does the macro stops? It seems to, but i want it to continue. How is this possible without loosing the windowspecifiness at macrostart? Thank You Alexandra

Thanks to everybody. For me its most important to see if a macro is already running. No problem if my applicationbuttons in the taskbar are smaller now. I already use double height for the taskbar. For switching tasks i use the vistaswitcher anyway. Thank You Alex

Thanks Paul, i did that and my taskbar became ...well... half a tray! ;-) Do you know if you still can kill macros by rightclicking forrest. That worked in MEX but last time i tried it in MEX Pro i could not even kill the mexpro.exe process and had to restart the pc with the powerswitch which i hate. Thank You Alex

It´s pretty obvious that it´s a good thing to know if a macro is running or not. Since i use WIN 7 64 i have troubles seeing forrest in the tray. WIN 7 tends not to display forrest. You can change this in the Trayinfo-Settings but you have to do it over and over again. At least after every restart. Even worse. Sometimes even changing the settings does not help as two forrests are listed there (second one for another macro) and you only made forrest number one visible. I use MEX Pro 4.2.1.1 I read some posts here regarding forrest but could not find an answer. Sorry if i overlooked it. Thank You Alex