Question On Scheduled Macro Tutorial

[sridhar]

I followed the tutorial at http://www.macros.com/tutorial/ME3Tutorial.htm.

 

The created macro is supposed to be triggered only if Notepad is already open. But it's running all the time. When I don't have Notepad open, it throws an error as in the attached screenshot.

 

What's wrong?

[mcZenner]

set the scope to Notepad

 

if you don't want it to run, the tutorial sets it to global

[kevin]

Another option is to write the macro this way:

If Window Title "notepad" is running

  Activate Window: "notepad"

  Date/Time: Type out "dddd, MMMM dd, yyyy"

  Text Type: <SPACE>

  Date/Time: Type out "h:mm:ss AMPM"

  Text Type: <ENTER>

End If

or this way

If Window Title "notepad" is running

  Activate Window: "notepad"

  Date/Time: Type out "dddd, MMMM dd, yyyy h:mm:ss AMPM"

  Text Type: <ENTER>

End If

Also note that thes macros use the newer 'Date/Time' macro command instead of the older 'Date' and 'Time' commands.

 

We will update the the tutorial to make it clearer. Thank you for pointing out the problem.

[sridhar]

Thanks.

 

Also there seems to be a problem in this forum's attachment feature. When I click on the image thumbnail in the first post, the full image doesn't open up, but see junk characters.

[blopib]

I have no problem with seeing the large image from the thumbnail.

[Cory]

works for me too