ANY kind of Macro recorder for Win 95???

Tony T

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Sep 11, 1996, 3:00:00 AM9/11/96

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Does anyone know of ANY macro recorder for win 95?
I have tried the old Win 3.1 Recorder.exe, but it always hangs on me,
even if I ignore the mouse. I have tried several "schedule" type
programs, but they are either to simple (just alarms ) or too complex
(heavy programming launguage).
I have looked at Obasic, Clockman, Super bar, and several others.
None seem to do what I want...

What I want to do is be able to send keystrokes to windows programs
and record them, save them to a file, and be able to run it at a
specified time. It doesnt matter whether or not the mouse is
recoreded; I am more likely to use all keys anyway.

Any ideas?

Please Email as well as post, if convenient.

Thank you,

Tony

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Howard Blakesley

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Sep 11, 1996, 3:00:00 AM9/11/96

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In article <3236cbd7...@news.execpc.com>
wm...@execpc.com (Tony T) wrote:

> Does anyone know of ANY macro recorder for win 95?
> I have tried the old Win 3.1 Recorder.exe, but it always hangs on me,
> even if I ignore the mouse. I have tried several "schedule" type
> programs, but they are either to simple (just alarms ) or too complex
> (heavy programming launguage).
> I have looked at Obasic, Clockman, Super bar, and several others.
> None seem to do what I want...
>

> Any ideas?
>
> Please Email as well as post, if convenient.
>
> Thank you,
>
> Tony

Have you tried Schd140.zip Seems to be what you are looing for. Sends
keystrokes to programs whenever you want. I use it to automagically ftp updated
files to my web site. Useful for sending video clips periodically.

Howard Blakesley
Tel: 504 568 6398
Fax: 504 568 6158
E-mail : hbl...@lsumce.edu or white...@usa.pipeline.com

Filip Tack

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Sep 12, 1996, 3:00:00 AM9/12/96

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In article <3236cbd7...@news.execpc.com>

> > Does anyone know of ANY macro recorder for win 95?
> > I have tried the old Win 3.1 Recorder.exe, but it always hangs on me,
> > even if I ignore the mouse. I have tried several "schedule" type
> > programs, but they are either to simple (just alarms ) or too complex
> > (heavy programming launguage).
> > I have looked at Obasic, Clockman, Super bar, and several others.
> > None seem to do what I want...

I succesfully use Recorder from Win 3.1 in Windows 95 with almost no
problems but with some inconveniences. Follow these guidelines

1) Before starting the recording process, minimise all application windows
except the one you want to record to
2) Make sure the first keypress is a letter or a Space or Esc, but not a
function key, arrow keys, Alt- or Ctrl-modified keys. In Excel, I always
use Esc as the first keystroke. In Word, e.g., I type a space and delete it
again.
3) Press Ctrl+Break to end the macro rather than clicking on the icon in
the taskbar. You have to switch manually to the End recording dialog, as it
will not come in front under Win 95.

Recording mouse actions works fine for me. My Options Preferences are:
Playback to Same application, Fast
Record mouse: Clicks and Drags
Relative to Window.

mahns

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Sep 13, 1996, 3:00:00 AM9/13/96

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Try Winbatch. Not only does it have a macro recorder, but a Windows
Batch language. There is a shareware version at thier web site. Do a
search I don't remember the the URL
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Erik Reif

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Sep 16, 1996, 3:00:00 AM9/16/96

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Why not using the recorder of win 3.x? It still works fine.