leoman Posted March 30, 2006 Report Share Posted March 30, 2006 I'm nearing the end of my ME trial period, so I have to decide whether to buy it... It's a great program, but I'm torn between it and Macro ToolWorks. The simplicy of ME is really a big bonus. I was wondering though if it is possible to set up a macro to trigger an action when a certain program (like an email client) is launched? Macro ToolWorks does this and it is vrey useful, eg. I can set it up to launch a custom menu when a certain program starts, etc. Also, are there any plans to incorporate a basic scripting into ME? I've had to write a couple of macros to launch Perl scripts when I need to do something that is a little more complex than ME can currently handle. Maybe someone here has tried Macro ToolWorks and can point out some reasons why ME is better - I'm sure that is a lot of functionality in ME that I probably haven't discovered yet. Thanks Leo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jason Posted March 30, 2006 Report Share Posted March 30, 2006 This feature is actually available in most e-mail clients, which Macro Express can access. We have written an article in one of our newsletters on how to do this. You can view the article at: http://www.macros.com/newsletters/MENewsJul2005.htm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leoman Posted March 31, 2006 Author Report Share Posted March 31, 2006 Thanks for the reply, Jason. I should have explained myself better - I don't want to launch macros via email. Rather, I want a macro application that can monitor what is happening on my computer. So, if I open Microsoft Excel, a customized ME macro toolbar for Excel will pop up and sit to the left of the screen. Maybe a macro will pop up and provide me with a list of frequently used spreadsheets and ask which one I want to load, etc. Macro ToolWorks does this, but there are other drawbacks to that program that are a bit annoying. I guess this is tricky in ME because there is a limit to one macro being run at a time. Are there any plans to change this in the future? I would be nice to be able to continue using various macros while there is one running in the background completeing a task that takes a long time... for example, monitoring a ftp download. Anyway, I'm going to run some more tests. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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