What's new in MacroToolbar Free Edition 7.6.9
Mar 16, 2016
- Fixed: Macro text is passed twice during macro playback. The fix applies also to some commands (such as ).
- Fixed: Hot-keys declared as cleared (not used) were activated in Windows 10 in different situations. This caused that, for example, list of all macros was suddenly open.
- Fixed: Macros open in separate process caused that Windows context menus open were showing empty content.
New in MacroToolbar Free Edition 7.6.8 (Mar 16, 2015)
- Fixed: Macro menu now prevents circular sub-menus.
- Fixed: Macro toolbars are properly positioned when enabled from disabled state.
- Minor fixes.
New in MacroToolbar Free Edition 7.6.7 (Nov 24, 2014)
- Fixed: _vActiveWindow system variable returns just first character of currently active window.
New in MacroToolbar Free Edition 7.6.6 (Nov 12, 2014)
- Fixed: Unique macro and macro group identifier is not changed on drag & drop operation.
- Fixed: Too long macro description caused macro file corruption.
- Fixed: timed out on some web sites.
- Fixed: In some cases "Win" key was "hold down" after computer wake up.
- Fixed: .4mt macro file is properly associated with the MacroToolbar program.
- Fixed: command did not handle defined sub-menus properly.
- Some small fixes.
New in MacroToolbar Free Edition 7.6.5 (Apr 5, 2014)
- Fix: If text is passed through clipboard during macro playback then the keystrokes sending speed option in macro configuration does not affect how quickly the macro text is "pasted" to the target application. In previous versions the "Slow" option for keystrokes sending speed caused also the paste was slow.
- Fix: New lines (enter "characters") in macro group description field do not cause macro file corruption.
- Change: The program is installed by default to user application data folder (instead of "Program Files").
- Fix: Macro toolbars submenus creation is fixed. In previous version an attempt to create a submenu button was reverted to normal button.
- Fix: When floating toolbar has an "auto-hide" set to "on" then it is not auto-hiding when there is a submenu opened from this toolbar. The toolbar auto-hides again after the submenu is closed.
- Several smaller fixes.
New in MacroToolbar Free Edition 7.6.4 (Jan 3, 2014)
- Clipboard commands and operations are optimized to retrieve plain text faster
- Smaller installation improvements
- Macro toolbars cannot be moved by dragging a macro button
- Added an option to turn off scope-based tabs switching on main macro toolbar
- Shared macro buttons are showing in macro toolbars first then the private macro file macros
- Stability improvements
- Several smaller fixes
New in MacroToolbar Free Edition 7.6.3 (Aug 18, 2013)
- Fixed the problem with macro triggers that cause triggers were duplicated. This issue was introduced in version 7.6.2
- Fixed the problem with and command that caused failure of the comparison of strings that contain single quote character (')
New in MacroToolbar Free Edition 7.6.2 (Jul 23, 2013)
- Fixed the problem when commands did not output valid time/date numbers when international (such as French or German) keyboard was used and with "through clipboard" option selected.
- Fixed the problem with playback text macros "through clipboard" (and also clipboard macros) when MS Office clipboard collector is turned on
New in MacroToolbar Free Edition 7.6.1 (Apr 23, 2013)
- Fixed the macro copy/paste problem when macro scope settings were not copied.
- "Glow" effect of the macro toolbar button text was removed. Button text color is now either black or white depending on the macro toolbar background color darkness.
- Additional minor fixes and changes.
New in MacroToolbar Free Edition 7.6.0 (Apr 16, 2013)
- Added a "glow" effect to macro menus and toolbars so that text is always readable regardless of selected background color.
- When macro is moved from one macro group to other it still keeps the same macro Id.
- "How to insert macro text..." option was moved from "Macro Properties" tab to "Macro Text" tab.
- Flying macro toolbars are only attaching to windows with title bar.
- If macro or macro group has defined "Macro Scope" then this is indicated by small overlay icon on the icon in macro list and macro groups tree.
- When macro is called using "RunMacro.exe" program then it properly follows all the macro and group setting (for example, disabled macro does not start).
- Default icon in the macro list now indicates how macro text is send to target application - either using clipboard or as a sequence of keystrokes.
- Additional minor UI improvements.
- Fixed the problem with generating FreeMacroPlayer file (Professional edition only).
- Fixed the problem with highlighting macro command in editor when the command execution fails.
- Fixed command.
- Fixed the problem with problem with macro scope definition "...NOT listed below".
- Fixed a problem with editing shared macros file.
- Fixed a "Buffer Overflow" vulnerability.
- Fixed the problem with macro recorder not overwriting selected macro.
- Stability improvements.
New in MacroToolbar Free Edition 7.5.5 (Nov 20, 2012)
- Fixed a problem when macro recorder was not recording mouse events.
- Fixed a problem when flying toolbars did not remember size changed by user.
- Auto-save feature was changed to only save file if the file was modified by the user.
New in MacroToolbar Free Edition 7.5.4 (Oct 16, 2012)
- Fixed a problem with command that did not correctly handle file names containing spaces.
- Added an option "run hidden" to command - this allows to start program, for examply command prompt, hidden.
- Improved launching macros from macro toolbar.
- Fixed problem with macro toolbar size persistence.
- Fixed a problem when macros occasionally caused MS Word to crash.
- Improved "paste through clipboard" option so that passing macro text using clipboard is faster and more reliable - sometimes it happend that instead of macro text the last text in clipboard was pasted.
- Fixed a problem that caused "clipboard macro" data were on certain circumstances lost from macro file.
- Flying macro toolbars are improved so that they can now attach also to child windows title bar (were attaching only to main window title bar before).
- Logging functionality was extended so that more information - for example macro trigger that started macro - is logged.
- Macro recorder was fixed to record macros more reliably. Especially options ("coordinates relative to active window" + "watch active window") that allow to record most reliable macros were significantly improved.
- and commands were fixed to properly work with currently active window field that is receiving keyboard inut.
- All executables in the installation file are digitally signed now.
New in MacroToolbar Free Edition 7.5.3 (Jun 29, 2012)
- Added multi-line edit field option to command.
- Added a "from" field to command.
- Added "wait for web browser is loading" option to command. This option allows to wait until web browser finishes loading of a web page after a link is clicked.
New in MacroToolbar Free Edition 7.5.2 (Jun 29, 2012)
- Fixed a problem when multiple instances of the program could be started.
- Fixed a problem when macro syntax was false recognized as invalid.
New in MacroToolbar Free Edition 7.5.1 (May 5, 2012)
- Fixed a problem that if program was locked using password this lock state was not persisted and the program was automatically unlocked after reboot.
- Added "confirm password" field to "lock mode" dialog.
- Improved new version notification window. It is possible to directly download new version or go to this page to read what is new first.
- Added , , , , and , commands (not in Free edition).
- Fixed "run as a different user" option.
- Fixed a problem with .mcr files that sometimes did not start execution after double-clicking on them.
- Fixed and commands. When "wait for application exit" option was set the system hung up.
- Fixed macro import when import file was saved as "Unix" or "Mac" (has different end-of-line).
- Fixed a syntax error when a command last parameter was empty.
New in MacroToolbar Free Edition 7.5.0 (Feb 28, 2012)
- Fixed a problem when macros running in Excel sometimes caused the Excel to crashed.
- Mouse buttons are not automatically released after macro is finished.
- Performance was improved, the program does not consume CPU when active windows are switched.
- HTML export improved and an option to export all macro attributes was added.
- Exit code added to command.
- Fix: when copying scheduled macro the scheduling information are properly copied.
- Fix: clipboard macros now works properly in Word 2010.
- Added support for mouse wheel, including macro recorder.
- command fixed to properly work on Windows 7 and Vista.
- Added "disable" menu item to folder and macro context menus. It is possible to enable/disable folders and macros by holdong "Alt" key and click.
- Fixed screensaver related commands.
- Added "double-click" command .
- Added "square root" operation to (..., CALC_EXPRESSION, ...) command.
- Fixed a problem when window was not properly activated before macro was started.
- Fixed a problem with "File Save Operation Failed >>> OS reports error:....".
- Fixed a problem with indexing macro variable in arrays (when variable index is "01" or "02" instead of "1" or "2").
- Fixed window browse button to uses WIP.
- Fixed a problem with mouse triggers on dual screen computers
- Fixed a problem when the program sometimes did not start minimized to tray as defined in settings.
- Fixed program crash when opening an old version file.
- Only enabled macros show in macro toolbar as buttons.
- Fixed macro toolbars behavior on dual screen computers.
- Fixed a problem with expression evaluation.
- Fixed a problem when clipboard macros content was not loaded if macro file was "read only".
- Many other smaller changes and fixes.