Why limit yourself with keyboard and mouse recording? Insert custom commands and statements into your macros: "launch website", "open file", "wait for window", "goto", "shutdown" and many more. Add logic to your macros using the "IF - THEN" statement, "REPEAT X TIMES" statement.
Convert your macro to an EXE-file that runs on any windows-compatible computer (feel free to redistribute). To save space and improve performance the resulting EXE file is packed and compressed using the advanced optimization techniques.
All recorded keystrokes and mouse activity can be saved to disk as a macro (script) for later use, bound to a hotkey, extended with custom commands or even compiled to an EXE file (a standalone Windows application). This macro recording program will save you a lot of time on repetitive tasks. You can use the Macro Recorder to automate ANY activity in ANY windows application, record on-screen tutorials.
This keyboard and mouse recorder can:
so that in one run of this macro one can process several images successively.
The idea is to spare some redundant pre-settings for every new run if we were doing one image/macro run.
It also makes it easier for users as it is kind of a builtin batch processing.
This works quite nicely. Now I was wondering if I can have it macro-recordable.
The recorder indeed output something but the field of the list file input is weird
listfile=[Ljava.io.File;@6dd26576
or some such, a few questions have to answered first, e.g. how do we losslessly convert from that comma-separated string to the file list and vice versa? What separators and quotation characters are used so that it works in a backwards compatible way with IJ1-style macros? etc.
I encountered a problem when running and recording an IJ2 command.
So far (at least last time I tested something like that some time ago), recording of IJ2 plugins using the @Parameter recorded all parameters from the auto generated dialog.
Today, I encountered that this did not work anymore. The recorder records still the run("......."); part but without the user defined parameters.
Is there anything I am missing or was there any change in how to code the plugin to make it macro recordable?
Potentially, some interested in the issue could test this on any IJ2 plugin to just confirm if it is a global problem or if I have a mistake in my workflow.
Thanks in advance
Just bought Afinity Photo Desktop Mac in hopes of moving from photoshop completely. One activity I do a ton of is exporting for web. I'll process a large photo then use a macro to scale the image down to a specific size, then export as a JPG or PNG to a specific folder.
Unfortunately it isn't possible to record Exporting in a macro, however you can create your macro then use Batch Processing to apply the macro to multiple files and export them all in one step. You can find out more about this from the videos below!
Resizing and exporting can be done automatically with File > New Batch Job without the need for a macro.
In the case of exporting to JPG files you can also set the quality/compression you want in the exported files
I would like to build a macro (using the Macro-Recorder) for a paste-special task: I have 3 groups of 3 elements in column A, and I would like to copy the transponse of each group starting from the second row (in columns C,D,E) as showed in the picture below.
I tried to do this by turning on the macro recorder while performing the paste-special operation once, but then the macro works only for the data I have on the cells where I record the macro (e.g., if I record the macro using the range A2:A4, that's the only place where input data can be transposed). Is there a proper way to use the macro-recorder for such task?
The macro recorder isn't the most useful tool. Most experienced VBA programmers use it only for quick experiments to discover some detail about how the Excel object model works and then throw away the actual code.
2) Select the cell or range whose modification you are trying to record. Recorded macros which begin by selecting a cell are typically not as useful as recorded macros in which you have carefully thought of what you want selected before recording.
The way you use such a recorded macro is to first select the cells that you want to change and then invoke the macro. It will perform on the selected cells the same action that you did on the other selected cells -- but with all offsets, etc. relative to your current selection.
Photoshop includes extensive scripting support in addition to conditional actions. Currently, Affinity Photo supports neither one. As you have discovered, its macro recorder is quite limited in what it does support, which is considerably less than even the omission of simple conditionals would suggest.
There have been a few improvements to the macro recorder in the more recent 1.7 customer betas, mostly for controlling scaling & placement on playback, but it still has a long way to go before it comes close to equaling even the basic functionalities of Photoshop automation.
Unfortunately all of the macro things are based on the positions of the cursor on the screen, in an XY coordinate system, and there are a lot of things that affect where things appear on the screen. Screen size, desktop size, Windows font size, web browser font size, font, the website settings, need I go on....
Record the macro during the first step. Do a little optimisation and you are ready to repeat these steps as much as you want. It saves so much time which otherwise we would have to do each step manually which is very boring and prone to errors.
In my case the initial macro recording sometimes took few minutes to get it correct and optimised, but i should say it is worth the time spent if you need to repeat those same steps atleast 10 times or more.
It is existing to see the macro actions taking place within fraction of seconds which would otherwise take few seconds to do it manually. The playback is so fast that sometimes we cannot see what has happened, but when we go back and check, every changes we need are correctly made.
As I proceed with the macro recorder, the macro recorder stuck in between and does not proceed further with an error page from the application. From application development team I understood that, the application behaves only if we open multiple forms for the same user in different browser it will create error state for that perticular user form. After the error state has been created we can not access that perticular form in the module.
Please advice how can I proceed with the scan in this scenario using workflow recorder or any other alternative ways to overcome this challenge. Let me know if you need any further information from my end.
Just wanted to add in summary - The application at a moment only supports single form(wizard based) for a single user in one browser. In this case how can We start scan using WebInspect both Macro recorder mode or step mode. Thanks
From your description, I assume that you need something more permanent and not a macro that is only used a few times after recording it. I know this may not be what you are wishing for but it may be the best solution.
Of course, although such scripts are much more robust than recorded macros, they are by no means portable. If you change your desktop settings such as font size or reinstall your system, they might stop working and would require adjustment.
A macro recorder is software that records macros for playback at a later time. The main advantage of using a macro recorder is that it allows a user to easily perform complex operations much faster and with less effort without requiring custom computer programming or scripting.
Not all software comes with a built-in macro recorder. A standalone macro-recorder program allows a user to "record" mouse and keyboard functions for "playback" at a later time. This allows automating any activity in any software application: from copy-pasting spreadsheet data to operating system maintenance actions.
Most macro recorders do not attempt to analyze or interpret what the user did when the macro was recorded. This can cause problems when trying to play back a macro if the user's desktop environment has changed. For example, if the user has changed their desktop resolution, moved icons, or moved the task bar, the mouse macro may not perform the way the user intended. That's one of the reasons for preferring keyboard macros over the mouse-oriented ones.
However, some recorders do attempt to analyze user actions, trying to record mouse activity in window-related, not screen-related coordinates, for instance, or to detect exactly what widget a user selected.
as even in 3.2 i got problems at unwrapping properly the mesh ( the aspect ration bug is still active ) i used on 2.79b an addon called macro recorder.
It was really great and allowed me to quickly and easily resize meshes to the proper aspect ratio.
I set up CTRL+Y and CTRL+X shortcuts in UV editor window so that the macro call is straightforward.
Chapter 13 of the Getting Started guide (Getting Started with Macros) provides a basis for understanding the general macro capabilities in OpenOffice.org using the macro recorder. An example is shown here without the explanations in the Getting Started guide. The following steps create a macro that performs paste special with multiply.
More detail on recording macros is provided in Chapter 13 (Getting Started with Macros) in the Getting Started guide; we recommend you read it if you have not already done so. More detail is also provided in the following sections, but not as related to recording macros.
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