Macro MD Changelog

What's new in Macro MD 1.5.4028

Jan 13, 2011
  • Fixed a bug that prevented macros to be scheduled after 12/31/2010

New in Macro MD 1.5.3180 (Sep 17, 2008)

  • New Steps
  • Split Text Using Regular Expressions
  • Increment Variable
  • Decrement Variable
  • Multiply Variable
  • Divide Variable
  • New Features
  • 64-bit Windows XP and Windows Vista support
  • New macro scheduling framework: Macro MD now has its own macro scheduler and no longer uses Windows Task Scheduler.
  • Windows Vista compatibility for Internet Explorer steps: Macro MD now supports Internet Explorer protected mode in Windows Vista.
  • Step Templates: With step templates, you can customize the default parameters for every step.
  • New look & feel with user customizable color schemes
  • Improvements/Changes
  • Improved help file and help system: Macro MD now includes a very comprehensive help file with detailed information on each parameter of every step, several examples and tips.
  • Improved macro editor: Macro editor can now list the available steps in a tree view.
  • Improved search: Search functionality in the macro editor can now search within the step details that are not shown in the step summary.
  • Improved macro debugger: Constants can now be excluded from the variable preview.
  • Behavior of $LastError$ variable is changed. The contents of $LastError$ is no longer deleted if the previous step is successfully executed.
  • "Parse Text" step is renamed to "Split Text"
  • Bug Fixes
  • Fixed a bug in Send Keystrokes step that caused inputs like "+abc" to be evaluated as "+(abc)". "+abc" type of inputs now work as expected.
  • Fixed a bug with Undo/Redo actions in the Macro Editor.
  • Fixed a bug in Loop Using Regular Expressions step that caused the "Split the text using the specified regular expression pattern" option to return empty tokens when multiple matches are adjacent to each other.

New in Macro MD 1.3.2934.39017 (Jan 16, 2008)

  • New Steps: Synchronize Files, Save Window Screenshot, Parse Text, Compressed File Conditional, Get Web Page Information
  • New system wide constant: $MMDLOG_FOLDER$ - This constant points to the root logging folder for all macros.
  • New macro variable: $MacroLogFolder$ - This variable points to the logging folder of the current macro.
  • Added several new options to Copy Files, Move Files and Delete Files steps. With the new options, specific files can now be excluded. Moreover; the default file and folder matching method can now be changed.
  • "Get window handle" option is added to "Get IE Window Information" step.
  • "Password" option is added to the "Get User Input" step.
  • Constants are now listed in the "Extras" button's context menu.
  • Behavior of "Run Another Macro" is changed as follows: If the full path is not specified for the macro, Macro MD tries to locate that macro relative to the parent macro's folder. It is no longer needed to provide the file extension (".mmdmacro") of the macro. Macro MD will automatically append the extension if needed.
  • Renamed "Match Text Using Regular Expressions" step to "Parse Text Using Regular Expressions"
  • Automatic creation of "MacroCreationDate", "MacroCreationTime" and "SampleVariable1" variables can now be disabled from the program options dialog.
  • Fixed a bug that caused the step to fail when an empty text is provided to "Write Text to the Clipboard" step.
  • Fixed a bug that caused the compressed file to be corrupted when an error happened during the compression.

New in Macro MD 1.2.2794.36421 (Aug 30, 2007)

  • Licensing scheme is updated for faster program startup and faster program execution.