michaelkenward

Works fine here.

On 8/18/2022 at 1:33 AM, acantor said:

The truth (as I see it, anyways!) is that both approaches have a place. The former is probably more reliable than the latter. However, when the latter works, it seems to be equally reliable.

 

 

Excellent advice.

The right one for you might depend on where you want to deploy keystrokes (target software), and the exact combination of control keys.

The target software may have a mind of its own.

Software writers also have a habit of changing how they go about things. There may also be several different keyboard strokes of achieving the same result. With or without using menus for example.

The important thing is to remember that both options exist. If one approach doesn't work, try the other one.

On 7/11/2019 at 5:31 PM, kunkel321 said:

I believe Clipmate is still "alive" though it hasn't been updated in years.  

 

If you're copying from Word, then back in to Word, VBA might be the way to go.  And/or, Words native Quickparts feature...

I use Clipmate with macros, but find that format handling in Macro Express is not great.

Even internal management of clips in Macro Express leaves something to be desired.  Remove line breaks and carriage returns and you also remove spaces. So it all runs on.

And passing keystrokes from Macro Express to Clipmate is not without issues.

But my Macro Express programming skills are rudimentary.

20 hours ago, Tee Hiett said:

I would like to build 2 macros, one to hold the control key and the right arrow key down and another to release the control key and the right arrow key.

Thanks,

Tee

While there may be workarounds (see above), it might be better to do as suggested and to combine into one macro. I have several that mes around with toggling function keys

It might help if you said what you want to achieve.

GMail accepts Port 25 for SMTP only if you are sending to a GMail address.

12 hours ago, pepanee said:

Hi, I want to know what the Desktop is called.

What do you mean by Windows desktop?

The folder? Something else?

Another one who makes regular use of audible clues. Yes please.

I find the MEP "Running Processes" list to be iffy at best.

It cannot see website watcher, a program I use to monitor websites for changes. Task manager see website watcher just fine.

And in trying to automate work in Outlook 2016, a very basic keyboard macro has a habit of bringing website watcher to the foreground, when Outlook should be there.

All processes are there.

This must be a reference to Memory Map.

There is no way that Macro Express is showing "All Processes" here.

Task Manager shows that I have 166 Apps, Background Processes and Windows Processes.

Macro Express lists about 60, 20 of them Chrome. These Chrome entries also show in Task Manager.

Things have changed in Windows 10. Macro Express used to show the one I want to monitor in Windows 8, now it doesn't.

The program I want to monitor shows in Task Manager but is invisible in Macro Express.

Comparing Macro Express and Task Manager, the former has massive holes for stuff that it does not see.

No. I haven't pursued this issue.

Before going direct, I thought I'd check out what people thought here. But I never got round to it.

But then your message came along with the relevant subject.

No comments on XP Compatibility. But maybe the issue is related to the absence from Running Processes.

I have a couple of programs that run as normal in Windows 10, but that do not show up in Running Processes within Macro Express.

Task Manager does show the "App" as running.

If I look at Task Manager alongside Running Processes, quite a few show up in the former but not the latter.

This makes it impossible to write macro that checks for the Running Processes to see what to do next.

No.

Front page throws errors. Code rather than content.

I don't follow. When I made my taskbar deeper (using W7 Pro x64), the tray icons rearranged themselves into 2 rows. What am I missing?

You stretched it fiurther than I did.

Mine is probably 1½ rows.

That suits one of the tool bars I have added.

This has the advantage of allowing me to put the icons in fixed positions with less likelihood of Macro Express becoming confused as to which one it is addressing.

Have you considered making your taskbar 2 rows high instead of 1? It releases a lot more space for icons, while having, IMHO, minimal impact on normal windows.

They changed the model in Windows 7. Icons no longer stack in the Notification Area/System Tray. But you can drag and drop them into your preferred order.

Then again, using a double height taskbar does give other things more space to fit into.

Heaven only knows what it will look like in Windows 8.

I agree that a larger than usual Taskbar really has little effect on the visual real estate, especially if you have more than one monitor.

In windows 7 there is NO NAME at top of windows ( while being in EXPLORER ... < WIN E > system windows ) !

 

Anybody knows how to manage such windows ?

 

I tried some get controls.... but I canot make anything working...

 

Does Macro express 4 doing any better with windows 7 explorer wiindows ?

 

Tks in advance for repply.

 

James.

I don't have an answer to this one, but as someone who thinks Windows Explorer is useless I would look for an alternative that does not come with a blank title. I use Directory Opus, but that is a bit expensive.

Then again, I am not sure that I fully understand your question, so this may all be completely irrelevant.

This really isn't a Macro Express issue, forgive me for prolonging it.

Outlook databases need cleaning up from time to time. You should clean out deleted messages and compact the database to recover empty space. Outlook also comes with a repair tool (scanpst) that can fix damage that may not kill Outlook, but that will affect other software that tries to connect to Outlook.

I suggest that you take any problems with Outlook to this place:

My own backup regime is to use synchback to run daily backups. There are various versions, including a freebie.

In my case SyncBack works over a LAN – my PCs wake up early and do it before I start work – but I also do weekly backups to a USB drive.

the problem is that the form is going to be diffrent everytime i fill it out and in diffrent locations. i regulary have to go to diffrent web sites and fill out order forms never the same site twice. so i need something more specific that can understand if it should be name, adresss, E-mail that should be filled out.

most cases they are in diffrent orders and locations.

I do this all the time. The software I use is Roboform.

RoboForm Password Manager

Once you have have filled in the vital statistics, it detects fields on web pages and completes them.

While Macro Express might be able to do what you want, you would probably have to write a new macro for every new page you come across. RoboForm remembers the details for each page and offers to fill them from its "identity" data. And you can have several identities.

I just installed FF version 4. Amongst other changes I see that the red X icon top left that I've been using for pixel testing in my macro 'Wait for FF ready' has now been replaced. Unless anyone has already done so and is happy to share, I'll have to re-write it. Looks like a spinning wheel now, so a bit more complex.

 

 

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Terry, East Grinstead, UK

Terry

Have you investigated the various add-ins for that "feature"?

I haven't looked myself, but in earlier versions of Firefox I used an add-in that combined the "loading/stop" indicator.

For example, this one Smart Stop/Reload does magical stuff that might make it easier for you.

There are various other toys there that might deliver the goods.

I run a scheduled macro to launch a program that updates radio listings.

The program downloads data from the internet and creates a set of xml files in a known directory.

At the moment, I have no way of closing the program after it has done its thing. It just sits there until I close it.

All this usually happens when the PC is unattended, so the program awaits my arrival at the start of the working day.

I could just have a timer and tell it to go away after 10 minutes, say, but a better approach might be to monitor the folder, look for changes and then after a suitable interval, maybe a minute after the last change in the directory, to issue a close instruction.

I have looked for clues on how to go about this around here, in the help file, and in various examples. No luck.

Things like the "Repeat with Folder Example" look promising. But my rudimentary skills get not much further than that.

Any thoughts?

You probably want something that can monitor a folder and automatically run a PDF batch on files as they arrive.

If this is serious work that you are prepared to pay for, rather than looking for shareware or even a freebie, then OmniPage can probably do what you want.

It may be more sophisticated than you need, but anything less capable may not handle folder monitoring.

Nuance has deals on at the moment and offers 30-day money back.

OmniPage OCR Software by Nuance - Optical Character Recognition Software - Document Imaging Solutions

I use OmniPage, but not for anything heavyweight like your application.

They have a dual pricing scheme with a much reduced upgrade price. Unlike others they do not seem to police this in any way that forces you to actually own an old version. (You should check this, of course.) If you have qualms, I bet you can find a legitimate early version at a knock-down price somewhere.

In what way exactly? I have never experienced any problems between MEP and ClipMate.

Did you search this place for mentions of Clipmate?

There have been various reports of people trying to pin down strange behaviour that may or may not be related to the interaction between Clipmate and Macro Express.

If I use the command "Type Clipboard Text" and use the "Ignore CR/LF" the resulting output has no spaces where the CR/LF 'characters' were.

If I examine the clipboard in Clipmate, there are spaces there. Maybe it adds them.

I would like to type the text with spaces but not CR/LF.

This would be preferable to asking Clipmate to remove the breaks. Adding interactions without programs always make life a bit more difficult.

Am I missing something?

I want to do this because I am renaming files and need to get rid of the CR/LF but not the space.

Well I killed a few other programs when it first happened thinking it might have been them. But it still did not unfreeze until I killed the Macro Express processes meprox64 and macexp

 

So I will make the assumption it was the Macro express software

OK. Thanks for that.

Someone else had the same thought and beat me to it on the experiment front.

Saves me the trouble, although a single experiment isn't definitive, this seems to be pretty good evidence to me.

So, further reports of frozen systems.

Here too.

It is puzzling. I had a few weeks when it did not seem to happen.

Like others, forcing MacroExpress Pro to close – I use this "C:\Program Files\Sysinternals Suite\pskill.exe" -t macexp.exe – brings it back to life.

I was wondering if it isn't really MacroExpress Pro that is at fault.

One way to test this would be to find another process that I can kill without risking doom and destruction on my PC.

In that way I can test to see if it is just the act of forcing something to shut that breathes life back into the PC.