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.
Macro Recorder features an easy and straightforward user interface. Forget about hours wasted on reading manuals. Start using Macro Recorder in seconds. Just click "Record" with your mouse and start working. Watch a video!
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.
Macro Recorder can find images on a screen, detect when a window changes it's position etc. Macro Recorder comes with full windows-shell integration and scheduling. Macros can be edited with the built-in full-featured editor.
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.
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This could easily done by an mouse recorder, but unfortunately I am not able to download anything. I have PowerShell preinstalled on my computer, so this could be an option (I've used this successfully in the past for making directories).
Comparably, I achieve what you seek with Windows PowerShell ISE, which needs not the hassle of having to d/l & instal: open a blank project in PowerShell ISE and add the following code...
Create an array by calling in user32.dll & calling the mouse clicking event within. Note: this is important if you wish to send mouse-clicking events. Without this, your mouse will just keep on changing its position but won't click anywhere. (More information can be found here.)
In above command you are simply getting cursor X & Y Position. Please note, you may have to perform this steps for more times to get the mouse pixels, as in where you want your mouse cursor to go and click.
As @philippe says, the best way to amp up your use of Keyboard Maestro is to look through the text tokens and function section to see what is in there, as well as looking through the various lists of example macros:
OK. GREAT! Thanks for your help, tiffle !
Just some other questions (sorry, absolute beginner here) - is there any simple and compact way of programming one macro for "do x once a key is pressed and holded (maybe a pretty long time, like a modifier key while tab-stepping through applications) and then do y once the key is released" ? Or do I always need to setup two macros separately, one for "key is down" and one for "key is released" ? The problem is, that when I use the "Execute Actions Until Conditions Met" action there's no way of choosing the USB device key (X-Keys USB module) I want to use as condition target - compared to the initial trigger selection menu (FEATURE REQUEST!) ...;-(
I also have the problem that I need to keep KM from interpreting the automatic trigger repeats once a key is down for longer. For example if I want to move the cursor to a certain location as long as a key on a USB controller is pressed down and want to store the initial mouse position in order to get back there after release the auto-repeated key trigger causes the store action to immediately pick up the new location with the first auto-trigger - making this step useless....sure I can find a workaround for this with setting a variable flag definition and a if/then loop definition, but that's really bulky....
And one big issue: I'm using Parallels Desktop and want to use macros there too. I've found though that there seems to be an issue that the keyboard presses don't go through to Windows consistently ! For example I've been setting up a simple macro for quickly jump from one application to the one last used with a key on my USB device and firing off only the simple action "Type the alt-Tab key". This only works about 70% of the time, every 3-5 presses it won't work once, sometimes 2 times in a row....but when I stay in the Mac domain and use cmd-Tab instead it works perfectly fine everytime.....I already tried to limit the macro group to being used with the Parallels app only - without success.....I also observed the macro in Debugging mode - here every action is showing up without interruptions....is this a known issue ? Or even better - is there a way of fixing it ? Like that I can't use KM at all.....
For getting one macro to do two things for press and release: You can set two triggers; one pressed, one released, then have an If/Else using the text condition %Trigger% ends with "pressed" or "released".
Thanks for your ideas ! I'll definitely check those suggestions out once I have time to do so...!
But I didn't fully understand your first statement: If I add another Trigger (=2 in total) and use one for let's say "key is down" and one for "key is released"...would %Trigger% always refer to that particular trigger ONLY inside this actual macro ? Or am i supposed to subtitute "Trigger" by lets say "Apple Keyboard Key Pad 5" in case I'm using that numpad key ?
Unfortunately/fortunately I'm on holiday and don't have my mac with me so, as much as I'd love to give an example to show what I mean, I can't. I'm back on Monday, so will try to help with examples if someone else hasn't already.
is there any simple and compact way of programming one macro for "do x once a key is pressed and holded (maybe a pretty long time, like a modifier key while tab-stepping through applications) and then do y once the key is released" ?
But I didn't fully understand your first statement: If I add another Trigger (=2 in total) and use one for let's say "key is down" and one for "key is released"...would %Trigger% always refer to that particular trigger ONLY inside this actual macro ? Or am i supposed to subtitute "Trigger" by lets say "Apple Keyboard Key Pad 5" in case I'm using that numpad key ?
Macros are sequences of events (such as keystrokes, mouse clicks, and delays) that can be played back to help with repetitive tasks. They can also be used to replay sequences that are long or difficult to run. You can assign a macro recorded in Microsoft Mouse and Keyboard Center to a key or a mouse button. You can also use the Macro Repeat feature to play and repeat a macro continuously, and then stop it at any time.
Microsoft Mouse and Keyboard Center macros use a .mhm extension and are saved as individual files in your default Documents\Microsoft Hardware\Macros subfolder. Macros recorded in keyboard and mouse are interchangeable. You can run them or edit them from either program.
Click in Editor, and enter your macro.
You can record events such as keystrokes, mouse clicks, and delays between actions. You cannot capture mouse movement or actions performed through macros assigned to reassignable keys.
PyAutoGUI is excellent for click and type automation tasks, but one of the weaknesses I found with it, is that it's difficult to 'record' a task and get the xy coordinates for the mouse clicks. There is an option to take screenshots and locate images within the screen but I could never get this to work accurately - mouse xy coordinates are much more reliable.
The first step is to record the mouse and keyboard input. To do this, we are using pynput to listen for on press and on click, then storing those events as a dictionary in the recording list. Once both listeners are terminated, we store this in a file recording.json
Now we have the recording.json file, we can use that to convert it into a Python script. We are excluding mouse release and scroll events as these don't really help for the purposes of conversion.
As some of the keys from pynput don't correspond directly to PyAutoGUI, the key_mappings dictionary helps out with this. If you come across any more, you can add to this dictionary taking the pynput key and mapping it to the relevant PyAutoGUI keyboard keys.
Here is a quick end-to-end video demo recording, converting then playing back an automation process - an example of opening Firefox, navigating to W3Schools, searching for Python, copying some code, then pasting it into Visual Studio Code. This uses left click, right click and keyboard input so applicable to a real-world scenario.
Okay this was another fun Python automation article, now you know how to create a mouse and keyboard recorder with Python, and have a solid start to building more advanced robotic process automation (RPA) solutions with PyAutoGUI. You can refer to the documentation for more guidance on using PyAutoGUI and think about what else you might like to build ?
This program can be modified and adapted further to your needs. You could read in some data with pandas and then introduce a for loop to repeat an automation process for multiple inputs during playback.
For example, it can turn shaky mouse moves into nice curved or linear shapes. This is great for creating screencasts as it eliminates visual distractions. You also have the option to adjust playback speed for individual or all mouse movements.
Once installed on your PC, recording mouse movements and keyboard keystrokes will be a breeze. The recorded macros can be saved on the PC, played back at any time (thanks to the scheduling function), and at the desired speed (double, triple, and even more). MouseKey Recorder is available in a free version, with the only limitation being the maximum number of repetitions that can be set for the macro.
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