joe

Wait for wait text?

Isn't that a function of how you set up your mouse via the mouse driver? I'm not sure if a middle mouse button can be programmed, but I know other, side, buttons can be programmed.

Can you capture the chat window text to the clipboard? Ctrl+A and Ctrl+C? If so, then you can save the clipboard to a text variable and create parsing macros to extract your target data.

For the log file, look at the Text File Begin Process / Text File End Process command construct to step through a text file.

You can also easily save a whole text file to a single text variable.

Change the Delay in Seconds value to zero under the Advanced tab of the Activate/Launch Program dialog.

Only a single macro can run at any given time. If other macros are fired they are placed in a queue and run when the current macro is finished.

Even though system macros are internal to Macro Express and cannot be added, you can still create a normal macro to do the same thing. And you can use what ever hotkey you want. Ctrl+Alt+Shft+A will work just fine. I also suggest that you scope the macro to the Macro Explorer window so that it will not fire at the wrong time.

Delay 250 Milliseconds
If Window Title "- Macro Explorer" is on top
 Activate Window: "- Macro Explorer"
 Delay 250 Milliseconds
 Keystroke Speed: 35 Milliseconds
 Text Type: <ALT>ma
 Wait For Window Title: "Add Macro"
 Delay 250 Milliseconds
 Repeat Start (Repeat 7 times)
   Text Type: <TAB>
 Repeat End
 Delay 250 Milliseconds
 Text Type: n<TAB><ENTER>
End If

<MSD:250><IFOTH:03:2:- Macro Explorer><ACTIVATE2:- Macro Explorer><MSD:250><SPKEY:0035><TEXTTYPE:<ALT>ma><WAITWIN2:000000:000000:Add Macro><MSD:250><REP3:01:000001:000001:00007:0:01:><TEXTTYPE:<TAB>><ENDREP><MSD:250><TEXTTYPE:n<TAB><ENTER>><ENDIF>

The character in question is an ASCII SOH, used in many commands. you can see it from the Direct Editor, which, among other things, is used to view the native Macro Express language.

It seems that the macro you are importing (or the library itself) may be corrupted. Try exporting the macro as a playable and then import the playable.

Maybe Macro Express is out-pacing your application. Try wrapping your Mouse commands within a set of Mouse Speed commands:

Variable Set Integer %N1% from Mouse X Position
Variable Set Integer %N2% from Mouse Y Position
Mouse Speed: 1 Milliseconds
Mouse Move Screen 2000, 573
Mouse Left Button Double Click
Mouse Speed: 0 Milliseconds

Stek -

Without seeing the code, I would suggest reversing the IF/ENDIF test. Test for the higher value (55) first, then the next lower value (10), and then the lowest value (05).

There is no BETWEEN statement, however you can accomplish the same thing using the AND statement:

// BETWEEN 0-6 give me a 0
// BETWEEN 7-12 give me a 1
// BETWEEN 13-18 give me a 3....
If Variable %N1% >= 0
 AND
If Variable %N1% <= 6
 Variable Set Integer %N2% to 0
End If
If Variable %N1% >= 7
 AND
If Variable %N1% <= 12
 Variable Set Integer %N2% to 1
End If
If Variable %N1% >= 13
 AND
If Variable %N1% <= 18
 Variable Set Integer %N2% to 3
End If

<REM2:BETWEEN 0-6 give me a 0><REM2:BETWEEN 7-12 give me a 1><REM2:BETWEEN 13-18 give me a 3....><IFVAR2:2:01:5:0><AND><IFVAR2:2:01:6:6><IVAR2:02:01:0><ENDIF><IFVAR2:2:01:5:7><AND><IFVAR2:2:01:6:12><IVAR2:02:01:1><ENDIF><IFVAR2:2:01:5:13><AND><IFVAR2:2:01:6:18><IVAR2:02:01:3><ENDIF>

The menu can be dragged off and placed on your desktop. Same with the toolbar. Could this be what happened? Try entering Alt+T+D (Tools->Restore Program Defaults) from the Macro Explorer window.

Well, how do you normally print a graphic file? What applications loads when you double-click on the graphic file?

Hello and welcome!

Macros might not work in some games. Look here and here for example.

There are 725 different HotKey combinations that Macro Express recognizes. The standalone Win key is not one of them. Win key by itself is trapped by the operating system.

When two or more windows with the same exact title are on your display, it can make it difficult to use Window commands. There are other a couple of options that you can try:

• Are the error window and GUI window titles exactly the same? Or just the first part?
  
• You might be able to distinguish between the two windows using the Get Pixel Color command.
  
• You might be able to use the size of the "Window on Top" to determine if an error window popped up.
  
• You can try using Window Controls to determine which window is on top.
  

It is indeed. And now so is my main computer!

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Sorry to have to disagree with you Joe, but that is such an 80's mentality. Making secret plans and not listening to users is a recipe for disaster.

I don't recall writing anything about not listening to users or of secret plans. It's no secret that software companies are always improving their product and are always working on the next release. And listening to your customers is a primary responsibility of any company.

But in order to support customers, in order to listen to them, in order to attract more customers, a business must stay in business, which is done by charging a fair price for a product or service. If that is an 80s mentality, then so be it.

There will always be other products with wide customer support. And there will always be free products. By their nature, free products draw a lot more users. But they are not customers. They have not paid for a product but instead, are simply using something. Do they have the potential to hurt sales in a real business? Of course! And companies must make themselves better for it.

simply because I have no clear indication of whether certain features will be implemented in Macex, or even if the company has any idea about what its competitors are offering.

Sounds iffy. Your decision must be based on something more than what you say in the above quote. Maybe it has something to do with "free"? The great thing about an open marketplace is that people are free to decide what works best for them. Your answers and support have always been welcome in this community.

On a side note... it would also be nice to see what enhancements are currently being worked on or may be available in the future.

Well, if it were my company I would not publish these in a public forum. I would not even admit to working on any. Why? Competitors! There is no doubt that when you are the BMOC (big man on campus) others try to do what you do and are constantly looking over your shoulder to see what they should do.

As a capitalist, I think competition is great. But that doesn't mean I have to give my competition the bullets to shoot me with, not even if I already have 3 steps towards the door. ... great song, btw.

Thanks for the feedback Lemming. I look forward to hearing more on this subject from other users, too.

Can't we make feature requests in the forum? So more people can read about it

As to Macro ToolsWorks, I'm sure it is a very fine product ... as are the multitude of other Macro Express look-alikes.

No. Macro Express does not support mass-scoping of macros. You can suggest it to them at Feature Request.

What you want is the Date/Time command within the Text category. It allows you to save a timestamp to a text variable which can then be used as a file name.

er, what?

No. But isn't that why you wanted to change the hotkey?

Welcome!

One of our clients has a Macro Express server setup that he calls a "watchdog". It constantly polls, or watches, for messages from any one of several workstations that are also running Macro Express. These messages are in the form of a simple file or or file name written to a folder that both the server and workstations have access to. Depending on the file name it sees, or what is actually in a particular file, the macro server fires off a macro to do whatever it was set up to do. When done, the macro server writes a file back to the folder where a workstation macro that was waiting sees it. Once it sees it, the workstation continues on its merry way.

This sounds like what you want to do.