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.
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:
- record macros of your routine tasks
- or create macros from scratch using the macro editor and built-in commands like "open file", "shutdown", "launch website" and even for-loops and if-statements like in "big" programming languages.
Make your own programs and macros - no programming skills required.
Let's delete everything from our macro and see how we can create a macro instead of recording it. Let's say I want Macro Recorder to start Windows Notepad for me - I insert an "open file" command to my macro. Then I want Macro Recorder to actually wait until Notepad is actually started, so I add a "wait for process" command to my macro. Then I want macro recorder to type some text into the notepad window - I add a "type text" command to my macro. Let's replay our macro and see how it works.
I was also able to mouse record a 3 tick fishing loop with jitbit, and figured out how to use a program called chimpeon to make the 3 tick loop start over and over. all i had to do was watch to make sure there was a fishing spot in front of me. that method gets 85-100k xp per hour.
Microsoft Word 2010, along with the rest of the Office 2010 suite has a built-in macro recorder, however in the newest version, it is very cumbersome to create a macro unless you know Visual Basic and VBA. As the picture shows below, users must know how to code their actions in VBA,
I'm looking for a tool that can record everything I do with my mouse/keyboard and playback recorded sessions. I've found some softwares that can replay macro using a script but none that can also record a session.
About five years ago we had considerable success with MacroScheduler from MJTnet. This will enable you to record sessions, and also allow you to edit the session as a script - great for optimizing and tweaking a recorded macro.
Macro Recorder is not only a mouse recorder, keyboard recorder and player. It is also a very powerful automation software and even an EXE-compiler. 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.
Macro Recorder is very easy to use and should work fine "out-of-the-box". However, technical limitations and unavoidable interferences may require to troubleshoot your recording. Please find tips and tricks to get your macro running as expected:GeneralThe foremost important tip: Most of the common issues are window focus based. Macro Recorder does not automatically switch the input focus to the application you wish to automate. You would either need to change focus using the windows focus macro action or by simulating a regular click (not a smart click) into the target application to switch focus to that window.
- Make sure that you are using the latest version. Your installation may be out-of-date, even if you checked for updates. The latest version can always be found on the download page.
- The demo version cancels playback after a few repetitions. Make sure to register your license key for uninterrupted macro playback.
- Mac only: If Macro Recorder crashes if you press Record, most probably, you need to (re)authorize the security access settings in macOS. Please carefully follow the installation instructions. Please note, that you may need to reconfirm the settings after a software update.
- Windows only: If Macro Recorder was started with normal user rights (default case), it cannot control programs started with extended administrator rights. Solution: Start Macro Recorder with administrator rights as well (right-click on program file and choose "Run as administrator").
Check if macro actions are disabled in the script.Check below additional tips...Window focus changeMake sure that the defined window title matches the actual title in the desired window.Window title may change dynamically!
- The browser title shows the currently loaded web page title which is different on different web pages.
- Editing programs show the file name of the file that is currently being edited. It differs from file to file.
- Many editors add a * to the window title when you start editing a file to indicate that the file has been altered.
- Database programs may use the currently selected database item in the program title.By the way, program names (vs titles) sometimes also have confusingly weird names. Microsoft UWP programs may show different titles than expected. The Microsoft browser "Edge" has the edgy program name "ApplicationFrameHost.exe".Let Macro Recorder scan the program name and window title:
- In the window change action, click the cross-hair button.
- Click the window you want Macro Recorder to switch focus to.Use the wildcard for dynamically changing window titles: Replace "MyWonderfulDocument.doc - Word" with "* - Word" if you want to switch to Word, regardless of the name of the file currently loaded in Word.Alternatively consider to delete/filter out any focus change action which are not necessarily needed if the program already runs which you want Macro Recorder to control. You can also use the mouse click action to set focus into an application or assign a Macro Recorder playback hotkey, set the focus into the app manually and then press the playback hotkey to run the macro.
Step-by-Step video tutorialChoose a click position that visually differs from the rest of the desktop. Otherwise, Macro Recorder may abort the image area analysis with a hint that the image area is not unique; for example, SmartClick is not suitable to click anywhere in the middle of a large monochrome area.Make sure that the desired program window has focus if the action is configured to search the bitmap in the currently focussed program.On playback, Macro Recorder performs a digitally precise comparison between the small bitmap(s) you defined when recording the macro and what is visible on the desktop on macro playback.Even if you believe it is identical, there are many factors that may cause slight changes in appearance, making it impossible for a computer to calling it a match.Here are some tips what to look for:
- Make sure that the program window has active focus if you restricted the images/text search to the "active window"!
- After updating to v2.0.85 (or later), you may need to reduce the tolerance value as the detection mechanism has been improved.
- Make sure that the same fonts are installed on the computer that were present when you recorded the macro.
- Clicked items which are captured by Smart Click must have consistent size, shape and color. Macro Recorder captures the item with the appearance at the time of the click. If its appearance change, SmartClick cannot find it anymore as it doesn't match the recorded bitmap around the click position.
- Buttons or web links on a webpage may have a different color after the page has been visited. Verify, if Macro Recorder captured the color of the desired state.
- SmartClicks may not be detected if running the macro from a computer with different DPI settings ("Retina").
- Font anti-aliasing settings ("font smoothing", "clear Type" or "LCD optimization") affect the appearance of text and user interface controls. Consider switching such technology off for optimized image detection:
- Open the System Properties window by pressing the Windows key and the Pause/Break key.
Click on Apply and Ok which should disable the font smoothing.
- Ensure a consistent web browser viewing scale. If you record a zoomed page, SmartClicks would not work with differing zoom settings. Consider resetting zoom with the browser hotkey CTRL-0.
- Check if any blue-light filter software may affect the desktop color scheme (f.lux, Apple macOS "Nightshift", Microsoft Windows "NightTime").
- Consider disabling automatic dark/light mode change feature.
- Disable user interface transparency effects where the desktop background may shine through user interface controls and affect image detection.In virtual machines, the mouse pointer may not visibly move to the found image while Macro Recorder actually captured the correct X/Y position. This cosmetic glitch seems to be an interference with the driver of the virtual mouse.Image RecognitionMacro Recorder performs a digitally precise comparison between the selected screen area and what is visible on the desktop on macro playback.Even if you believe it is identical, there are many factors that may cause slightest changes in appearance, making it impossible for a computer to calling it a match.Image recognition optimization tips:
- If the image search is restricted to a specific program window, make sure that the program has focus at the time the macro is running. Even if you can see the image, it is invisible for Macro Recorder until the program has focus. Solution: Edit your macro so the target program gets focus (e.g. with the "focus window" action or by simulating a click into the program window. Alternatively, remove the search region restriction).
- Experiment with the "Tolerance" setting. For macros created with Macro Recorder v2.0.84 (or earlier), you may need to reduce the tolerance value as the detection mechanism has been improved.
- Experiment with the search area size. The smaller the size, the faster the detection but the higher the risk of false detection.
- Buttons or web links on a webpage may have a different color after the page has been visited. Verify, if Macro Recorder captured the color of the desired state.
- Appearance of objects may differ if running the macro on another computer with different DPI settings ("Retina").
- Font anti-aliasing settings ("font smoothing", "clear Type" or "LCD optimization") affect the appearance of text and user interface controls. Consider switching such technology off for optimized image detection:
- Open the System Properties window by pressing the Windows key and the Pause/Break key.
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