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Getting ready to upgrade from 8.1 soon.

Thanks Samrae. That works. Much easier for me as working with the variables turned out to be a bit beyond my skills at this point.

I will give that a try. Thanks much.

What would be the best way to do this: Macro 1 plays an alarm once at 90 minutes. Then it does not start the 90 minute countdown again until Macro 2 completes. Macro 2 would be independent of Macro 1 and is triggered by a hotkey. Thanks!

I got it working by going into the Macro Express shortcut properties and changing it to run in XP sp3 compatibility mode and UN-checking 'Run as Administrator'

You're a genius! I was about to give up on ME after years of using it, tried your solution and now it's working like a champ. Thank you!

Ah! I thought this was their support forum. I will contact them. Thanks much.

Wow. No help on the forum here. So has this program just been abandoned?

Since I installed Windows 8 (64-bit) on a new desktop I've had nothing but problems with ME, so much so that's it become pretty much useless. For instance I wrote macros with numberpad keys 1-9 as hotkeys for Win keys 1-9. Sometimes they work, sometimes not. In ME if I right click and choose "Run Macro Now" they ALWAYS work so I'm baffled why they don't work with the assigned hotkeys. I've also tried using the "Activate Window" commands in the same way, assigning the numpad keys as the hotkeys with the same inconsistent results.

Anyone else having such issues with ME and Windows 8?

Ok. VB is way beyond me, but thanks anyway.

H

There's one command to open (eject) and one to close the dvd tray. Is there a way to make it open if closed and vice-versa, using one macro?

Thanks much,

Harold

Thanks so much, rberq! Looks great.

Harold

Is it possible to write a macro that would delete all files in a specific folder that were X number of days old?

If so, could someone get me started on how I'd do that?

Thanks much,

Harold

Thanks MGuy, I've use wallpaper changers in the past but when I noticed ME had a wallpaper command I figured I'd rather use it if possible, thus avoiding having yet another program running in the background. I ended up using a macro that someone else wrote and it works great. I assigned a hotkey to it and then set one of my Logitech G15 macro keys to that, so now I can change my wallpaper at a whim w/the press of a key using ME. Very nice.

Harold

Ok, thanks Cory.

Harold

I don't understand how to use the Wallpaper command to create a macro to rotate wallpapers. I only see that one can point it to one specific image and have that become the wallpaper. How do I cycle between images in a folder so each time I activate the macro a different wallpaper is set?

(BTW, I just got all set up in Vista and ME is running fine, no problems.)

Thanks,

Harold

Thanks Strathos, I'll give that a try.

H

No, the link is always the headline for that day's article and it changes everyday.

Thanks,

Harold

I'm trying to create a macro to load a web page but w/the following obstacles: The page is a daily economic commentary so the specific address changes everyday. For instance yesterday it was:

http://www.dailyfx.com/story/currency/gbp_...9071638299.html

Tues it was:

http://www.dailyfx.com/story/currency/gbp_...8994931722.html

And so on. Also, the link on the homepage that takes you to this commentary is not in the same place on the page everyday so I can't just set the mouse coordinates to click on the link.

I've tried using "controls" in both Firefox and IE but they don't seem to work in the browsers. It just names them all "Mozilla Window Class". I also tried using the tab key to get focus on the link but that didn't work either.

Is there any way to get around these problems?

Thanks much,

Harold

Thanks, but I found a simpler way to do it. Just using the "\" symbol in the "window title" activation works fine, since it's the only program I run (that I know of right now) that uses that backslash in the title bar. So it was that simple all along. But I didn't even now about "controls" so that was useful to learn that. Thanks much for all your help, ya'll are great!

Harold

Hi guys,

Ok, this is what I've written using "Get Control", but it's not working exactly right. It will give focus to the window if the program is already running, but it won't launch the program:

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If Not Program Name "dopus.exe" running

Program Launch: "dopus.exe"

End If

If Program Name "dopus.exe" is running

Get Control %C1% (\: dopus folder tree)

Set Focus to %C1%

End If

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When I disable all commands but - Program Launch: "dopus.exe" - it does launch the program.

Thanks,

Harold

I'm trying out a program called "Directory Opus", a file manager program. The title bar reflects whatever directory you're in w/in the program, for instance it will read C:\Documents and Settings or C:\Programs, etc. There are no preference settings to change this to a static title bar that just has the name of the program. I like to use hotkeys in ME to activate my most-used programs but since it does it by window title I cannot do that with Directory Opus. Is there any other way to give the window focus using an ME macro? I asked about it on their site and this was their response:

"In my opinion, a better solution for this particular problem is to ask the Macro Express team to add the ability to recognise windows by window class, which can be found using a tool like Spy++ (e.g. "dopus.lister"), and/or by the name of the executable that created them (e.g. "dopus.exe"). I know that several other macro tools can use window class instead of (or as well as) window title and if Macro Express supported this then the problem would be solved for many other programs, not just Opus. Of course, this is assuming that the ME folks will add a feature in similar time to the Opus guys. Getting a window's class is a very easy operation so it shouldn't be complicated for them to do."

Thanks,

Harold

Kevin,

Neither of those options were enabled. I enabled "Send HotKey in Window Activation" and it seems to be working now. As you mentioned, the problem is intermittent, so I'll see how it works over the next few days. But so far, so good.

Thanks much,

Harold

I use a few macros that use the "Activate or Launch" command, but sometimes, if the program is already running, the macro will not bring the window to the front. Instead what happens is the app's taskbar button will be highlighted and blink a couple of times, then remain highlighted until I manually switch to that app. How can I fix this?

Thanks,

Harold

Ok, I just recorded a macro where I used the mouse and I think I see the commands I need. As Rosanna Rosanna Danna used to say: Never mind.

Thanks,

Harold

I would like the mouse to left click at a certain spot on a window when the window appears. I know how to do 2 steps, that is to activate the macro when the window title appears and I know how to use the Mouse Locator to get the place where the mouse should click. But I don't know how to make it actually click on that spot. What command is that?

Thanks,

Harold