Lars_Sandberg

Hi, tried to delete following key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Insight Software Solutions\Macro Express\LRC The result was that ME reversed into trial mode, that was expired. So in other words, I could remove my ME license from the computer without un-install. regards lars

Hi kevin, as already mentioned in my first post, the "Change" option doesn't work. ME returns an error :-( The reason? 2 weeks ago I started working on-site by a customer, using one of their computers. So for now i'm using ME as trial, however in few weeks that would end. I looked after some license-terms and what I could find, was in menu: Help - License information When ME trial are ended i consider that authorising ME on that computer, wouldn't violate ME license-terms, since that would be like transportation of 1 (one) ME license. I can clearly only be in one place at a time. My problem is that i'm working 3 days per week by the customer, so I can't allow an authorised ME license to be on that computer, when i'm not there. That would violate license terms + another person would use the computer, where he could see my license code. I can't offcourse allow that, that is why I wish to remove my license registration, without un-install. So I hope that you can give some hints about how to remove the license. regards Lars

Hi, is it possible to remove my MEX license, without uninstalling ME 3.5e ? In menu: Help - License information, there is an option for change, however, if I try to remove my license info, ME returns an error. My hope was that ME would stop working, like after expired trial period. In registry, I found following key that maybe is the one? However I didn't dare to try to delete it: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Insight Software Solutions\Macro Express\LRC If it is possible, it would be nice to know :-)

Hi I purchased ME 3.4b back in october 2003. I hope that developement of ME have priority in your business, since i'm one of your very happy ME users :-) Since more than 3 years already have gone since 3.4b release, I guess that the next version will add alot of great new stuff??? Best regards Lars

Hi, I know the problem. I send an email to Insight Software long time ago about to restore the "delete file" command from 3.4b. See also thread: File Deletion Problem http://pgmacros.com/community/index.php?showtopic=1144 regards Lars

Hi, I posted a similar wish to Insight Software, some month ago. In ME 3.4b the software simply ignored "Access Denied" continuing with the next file, so files that could be deleted was deleted. From ME 3.5 that was unfortunately changed, so today I let ME call a *.bat file instead for doing deletion jobs. Another thing that I miss in ME'd delete function is the capability or option to bypass recycle bin, like with "shift-delete" in explorer, which would speed up the process a lot Best regards Lars

The particular CAD (Computer Aided Design) software do have an UNIX based userinterface, but the software is ported to Windows, so in that way it isn't based on an OS command prompt nor using Microsoft Foundation Classes for userinterface. Another thing, I tried to do a little test with the old dos version of Norton Commander running in an OS command prompt (W2K). To my great surprise ME could easily send keystrokes, use shortkeys + copy to clipboard, (made with mouse move selection followed by ENTER). I hope to get the job with the CAD software, however i'm still in the selling process regards Lars

Hi, I have an upcomming task, with a CAD system, that originated from the UNIX platform. The particular CAD software is ported to Windows 2000. Which limitations/ possibilities will ME have for controlling such app? If at least mouse movements, LMB/RMB + textwriting, use of CAD software shortkeys & eventually clipboard functions work, i'm fine. I understand that "controls" offcourse wouldn't work :-) Do any of you have some experience there? regards Lars

Hi again, I just want to bring up the release topic below. Is there done some efforts about a new version? regards Lars

Hi, you could use Total Commander which is a very powerfull file-handling utility for that: http://www.ghisler.com regards Lars

Hi Kevin No, UE is an ascii/ binary/ hex-editor, so a MS Word document, would propably become corrupt after such attempt :-) And sorry, I didn't notice Rachel's question reg MS Word files. regards Lars

Hi, I must say that MS Word is just about the worst tool for the job, sorry for the expression :-) For that I use UltraEdit, a superb ascii-editor ( www.ultraedit.com ). In UE which have an internal macro language, I have made few hot-keys, that temporarely changes following code example: <SPMSE:00060><SPKEY:0040><MMW2:132,32><LCLK><MMW2:172,146><LCLK><MMW2:320,79><LCLK><TEXTTYPE:<HOME><DOWN ARROW><DOWN ARROW><ENTER>><MMW2:292,160><LCLK> to: <SPMSE:00060> <SPKEY:0040> <MMW2:132,32> <LCLK> <MMW2:172,146> <LCLK> <MMW2:320,79> <LCLK> <TEXTTYPE:<HOME> <DOWN ARROW> <DOWN ARROW> <ENTER>> <MMW2:292,160> <LCLK> and back again so ME takes the code directly. When the code in UE have CR/LF's this can be processed in many ways besides just replace all etc. If anyone are interested I will post the UE macro file for handling ME Direct Code, which so far have following features: CRTL-1 Makes multilines CRTL-2 Make One line CRTL-3 Convert LMBD LMBU to LMBclick CRTL-4 Remove all Delays CRTL-5 Convert Delay (sec) to Timed Delay (0 cpu) CRTL-6 Convert Delay (msec) to Timed Delay (0 cpu) best regards Lars

Wauuv, that just shows what a nice tool ME is :-) It is quite some relief to see such task's to be automated. Let's see if some other will contribute with successes :-) regards Lars

Hi, I thought it could be nice to hear you ME users, about which successes you had with Macro Express. For my own part I bought a license back in june 2003 and today I have more than 200 macros that help me very much in my everyday in front of my computer. It became a sport to me automating everything, that I could imagine, that was also quite som good training in programming ME. Last week I just ended a job which payed ME approx 130 times, in less than one week. A customer asked if anyone could help them in one way or another with exporting 13000 drawings from a windows-based 2D CAD system to AutoCAD's dwg format. The reseller who sold their 2D-CAD package, said that there was no possibility to automate that task, so the user had to do this export-job manually, which would take her around 12 full working weeks. I and the customer agreed about the job, that we would do for around 5300 USD and they uploaded these 13000 CAD drawings to our ftp-server. Within 15 minutes I have made the first version of my macro for the job, and started it. During the same evening my macro stopped many times because the CAD program had different dialogs for missing references, corrupt drawings etc, so I had to refine my macro for answering these dialogs also. The CAD software even crashed with Dr Watson, so my macro had to delete temp-files as well as dmp-files (with a bat-file) and then restart the CAD software, which was needed 990 times during the entire job. I programmed ME to log events into an ascii-file. It was very nice to see how easy ME handled that job, which would be devastating if done manually, just imagine if you had to wait 5-10 sec just for opening a drawing + other 5-10 sec for exporting the same drawing, then do it 13000 times (I would look for another job :-) Instead of 12 weeks the customer had their converted drawings within 6 days. I guess that many of you have similar experiences with ME ?? Regards Lars

Hi, for such text-editing job, you need a good editor. I use UltraEdit for such jobs, where the tast you ask for can be done in seconds, whether you need csv or tsv (tab separated files) http://www.ultraedit.com/ And if you have many of these files ME controlling UltraEdit can be helpfull. regards Lars

Hi, I was just wondering a little about the release pace of ME. Back in june 2003, I bought a ME license, at that time it was version 3.4 or 3.4a. Today more than 2 years later, we have 3.5d, which basicly are a newer point release. When if anyone knows, can we expect a major release (4.0) and is there anykind of information about wich features to expect? ps: I'm a very happy user of ME regards Lars

Hi Cory, thanx for your feedback. I will post my suggestion directly to Insight. By the way, i'm very pleased with ME, which is a great tool regards Lars

Hi Cory, thanks for your work-around tip with a bat-file. I created a bat-file with following: del /s /f /q /aH "c:\temp\*.*" del /s /f /q "c:\temp\*.*" del /s /f /q /aH "c:\WINNT\Temp\*.*" del /s /f /q "c:\WINNT\Temp\*.*" del /s /f /q /aH "c:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Documents\DrWatson\*.*" del /s /f /q "c:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Documents\DrWatson\*.*" In ME I used: Program Launch: "temp-del.bat" However, it would still be nice if Insight Software would enhance the internal delete files command, where "ignore open files" & "shift-delete" bypassing recycle-bin then could be options. regards Lars

Hi, long time ago I created a simple scheduled macro in ME 3.4b, for deleting temp-files in: c:\temp\ I used following code: Delete File or Files: "" <DOFILE:08:NY:c:\temp\>> However from ME 3.5, Insight software intruduced some changes, so I couldn't use my macro any more. There are 2 problems: 1. ME 3.5d can't ignore open/ used temp files. A dialog appears: "Error Deleting File or folder" because of sharing violation. Here ME 3.4b was much smarter, since this version smoothly and without any messages ignored open/ used files and deleted files which was possible to delete. Please introduce that again. 2. It would be great if there was an option for "shift-delete", so Delete would bypass recycle-bin. The result is that performance is much better, and I don't need to restore temp-files using recycle bin. regards Lars

Hi, I made such macro, working with danish zip-codes which consists of 4 digits, like: 6000 Kolding I got a complete list of zip codes in an excel spreadsheet, which I converted to a tab separated ascii file, which my macro use. So when I use the shortkey "pbx" after the zip code, my macro completes the city name like: 6000pbx is made to: 6000 Kolding Here is the code: Keystroke Speed: 40 Milliseconds Text Type: <ARROW LEFT><ARROW LEFT><ARROW LEFT><ARROW LEFT><SHIFTD><ARROW RIGHT><ARROW RIGHT><ARR... // Postnr Variable Set String %T1% from Clipboard ASCII File Begin Process: "postnr-2005.txt" (Tab Delimited Text ) If Variable %T1% = variable %T2% Break End If ASCII File End Process Text Type: <ARROW RIGHT><SPACE>%T3% <SPKEY:0040><TEXTTYPE:<ARROW LEFT><ARROW LEFT><ARROW LEFT><ARROW LEFT><SHIFTD><ARROW RIGHT><ARROW RIGHT><ARROW RIGHT><ARROW RIGHT><SHIFTU><CONTROL>c><REM2:Postnr><TVAR2:01:03:><ADFBEG:F11:002:000001:000000:c:\postnr-2005.txt><IFVAR2:4:01:1:T2><BREAK><ENDIF><ADFEND><TEXTTYPE:<ARROW RIGHT><SPACE>%T3%> Good luck regards Lars

Hi I guess, that you can use a delay with 0 sec, since ME have to execute the codeline, it should be possible to stop the macro regards Lars

Hi, thanks for the tips :-) regards Lars

HI, I thought about buying the book, but I guess that the next ME 4 version are released within near future, which will make the book obsolete regards Lars

Hi, I found out that there seem to be an advantage for using Wait Time Delay instead of normal Delay, since Wait Time Delay don't require the extensive use of CPU during the delay, as stated in the help file. The Macros can the only be stopped, when the Wait Time Delay is over and the next line of code is executed. The interesting thing is that Wait Time Delay also accept milliseconds as below: Wait Time Delay 0,04 Seconds For some applications my macros now works more smooth during the Wait Time Delay, than when I used normal delays. What is your opinion and experience about that? regards Lars

Hi, for a macro I have made, I quite often need to change, which txt-file (with Tab Delimited Text) I have to use for the current task. So when I start the macro, I would like a dialog-box that ask me to select the txt file for processing during "ASCII File Begin Process" as below. Now I have to edit the code directly every time. I searched after such a function, but didn't find it. ASCII File Begin Process: "selected-file" (Tab Delimited Text ) If Variable %T1% = variable %T2% Break End If ASCII File End Process regards Lars