Hi all,
I am doing some shitty repeated jobs everyday eg : opening some files from a
specific location that I need to type or
browse and could be many times a day.
is there any freeware to record these type of macros and be able to run it
in shortcut keys ??
thanks
PowerPro has a scripting capability that will do that, so it's one
option.
But lately I've been learning AutoIt and I, too, have to recommend it.
It can make standalone scripts which gives it much more versatility in
that regard than PowerPor. Also, if the script works for you, then
you can compile it into an EXE file that you can carry around to use
on other computers, say your portable laptop vs your computer
computer, etc.
I looked into AutoIt (AI) twice before in last few years but these
later versions are much better documented somehow, for me. Also, I
found a nifty tool, AU3ScriptWriter III, courtesy of R.L., that takes
a lot of the guesswork out of writing the scripts even though I fall
back heavily on my PowerPro knowledge (AI accepts a lot of the same
type of syntax).
You can find AU3ScriptWriter III (AU3SWIII) here:
http://www.autoitscript.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=1084
It's the first link given on that page. Or, the direct dl link is
here:
http://www.hiddensoft.com/fileman/users/Larry/AU3ScriptWriter.zip
I tried 3 other script writers and they just didn't do the job that
this one does. I record what I'm typing and just copy what's in the
brackets in the
Send("...")
portion of what is recorded into AU3SWIII and paste into the this
basic script shell below between the lines that I put into a blank
notepad page:
-----------------------------------------------
;
; AutoIt v3.0
;
Send("")
Exit
; finished
-----------------------------------------------
After the send syntax is within the quotes, I then name the script by
saving this notepad page but give it an au3 extension rather than txt.
(It helps to have the extensions viewable in windows to do that, btw.
Something rather obvious, but bears mentioning. <g>)
If you decide to use AI, knowing the above will save you 3 days! I
know, it would have for me if I'd had this! <lol>
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p.s., If you're using other commands besides typing, then the above
script needs modifying to a certain degree. Each case is different so
it's difficult to cover them here as I don't know what all they'd be
and I'm new to AI myself. But with some playing around with the
script writer, since it does all the work, it should pretty much take
care of most of any AI chores you need to do with only finetuning to
fix things just so.
If you do run into things that you can't figure out, there are 2
places you can go that I know of (yes, despite the fact that I've
pestered the group now and then re AI script problems before AUSWIII!
<lol>). An AI v3 forum
(
http://www.autoitscript.com/forum/index.php?s=9306bf6c3cafacbadba2d04e5fea258a&act=SC&c=2)
or an AI yahoo group
(
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AutoItList/messages). They both
require registration but I find they're booth good places to go for
help.
Good luck with whatever you decide to do!
