michaelkenward

I can click "in the appropriate area" all I want, but the wheel continues not to work.

 

BTW I use a free mouse utility that (usually) allows me to scroll the window the mouse is currently over instead of the currently active window.

Strange.

I also used a mouse utility for a while, but somehow never got round to installing it in Vista.

Could that be messing around with Macro Express?

Can you turn it off and see what happens?

When you're in v4's Macro Explorer view, and assuming you have more macros than can fit on one screen, does your scroll wheel work? Mine works in Category view, where it does a horizontal scroll, but I get nothing at all in the macros view.

It seems to depend on whether you have clicked in the appropriate area.

A lot of software fails to sense the position of the cursor before deciding what to do with the scroll wheel.

I do, though, have one complicating wrinkle in that I have a dual-monitor set up. This is now pretty common, but a lot of software struggles to handle that too.

It looks as if MacroExpress is multi-monitor enabled. I just have to work out how to use it.

I'm with you there. I use my mouse as little as possible whenever I can. But sometimes mouse-moves and clicks are the only way to affect anything in certain applications... so I have learned to use these macro commands whenever I absolutely have to.

OK. Thanks for the confirmation.

Unless someone can explain how to use the keyboard, it will be down to the "trackball". (I prefer that to a mouse, takes less desk space.)

But it does seem to be a broken bits of the Macro Express interface- tagging that allows you to add one or more customizable "tags" to an item that can then be searched or action taken upon. once an item has been "tagged", the tag or tags will be kept in the x1 index. It looks like the keyboard will work. But somehow it won't.

Thanks for that. Will give it a try.

I generally avoid mouse movements for macros. I'm a keyboard freak. So had not really investigated that route.

I had a small macro in version 3.0 that took an abbreviation and then went into macro edit mode to create a new macro with a hotkey expansion using the abbreviation.

In ME Pro I have worked out most of the substantial changes needed, but one stumps me.

In the "Create New Macro" it demands that I assign a hotkey. I don't want to do this. I want to assign a "Shortkey".

The only way to move the keyboard to the "Initial Activation" slot seems to be a load of Tab keys, seven in all. And yet the options available have the underline implying that I can keyboard the move.

Of course, any keyboard stuff I try just shows up in the HotKey slot.

Am I missing something? Maybe I should create the macro in this way. But it worked fine before.