What's new in MacroToolbar Professional 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 Professional Edition 7.6.7 (Nov 24, 2014)
- Fixed: _vActiveWindow system variable returns just first character of currently active window.
New in MacroToolbar Professional 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 Professional 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 Professional 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 Professional 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 Professional 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 Professional 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 Professional 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 Professional 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 Professional 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 Professional Edition 7.5.3 (Jul 17, 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 Professional Edition 7.5.2 (Jul 17, 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 Professional 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 Professional Edition 7.5.0 (May 5, 2012)
- Free edition with limited functionality is available.
- Standard Edition can run Basic Script scripts.
- 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...
New in MacroToolbar Professional Edition 7.4.8 (May 5, 2012)
- Added parameters to limit search area in and commands.
- Added wildcards (* and ?) support to windows identification path (WIP). A window identification in window manipulation commands (such as ) is more flexible now.
- Added "always on top" parameter to the command.
- Added "show OK and Cancel buttons" parameter to the command. OK and Cancel button in user defined forms are now optional.
- Fix: Occasional hang ups in command (hybernate) fixed.
- Fix: Status bar in main window is properly updated.
- Fix: Macro toolbar submenus are properly drawn with user defined background color.
- Fix: Macro toolbars properly draw separators.
- Fix: "Ctrl+V" (and "Shift+Insert") clipboard paste function is properly handled in macros that playback text (for example, "This is in clipboardvDid you know that?").
- Fix: Registration info is not reset when user open "Help/Register" dialog box without entering correct registration info.
- Fix: command fixed so that strings can contain brackets.
- Fix: Windows browser button in editor fixed.
- And more smaller fixes and changes...
New in MacroToolbar Professional Edition 7.4.7 (May 5, 2012)
- Macro syntax checker fixes
- Macro named "_xSharedMacroFileNotFound" (if exists) is called when shared macros file cannot be loaded (does not exist). If this macro is called then the error message is not showing. The macro is intended to allow programatically handle the situations when shared macro file is not accessible (network server down, for example).
- Startup macros various fixes
- Problem with windows loosing keyboard focus before macro was started was fixed
- ("FILE:....") command fixed
- Hidden windows can be accessed by window manipulation commands
- Comments in externaly called macros fixed
- , , commands fixed to work properly with 64-bit processes
- Fixed a problem when variable manipulated with a string containing bracket characters ( or )
- x slower macro playback added
- "_vMacroFileLoaded" can be used to programatically load other macro file
- Identify Windows version updated (Program correctly identifies Windows 7)
New in MacroToolbar Professional Edition 7.4.6 (May 5, 2012)
- Installation program is now checking whether a Macro Toolworks family program is running.
- Fixed a problem with running VBA-like script (the bug introduced in 7.4.5).
- Improved speed of some keystrokes.
- Improved clipboard related commands.
- A few additional smaller fixes.
New in MacroToolbar Professional Edition 7.4.5 (May 5, 2012)
- Significantly improved "send macro text through clipboard" feature. This feature can be now used also for macros containing macro commands without any limitation.
- New "How to send macro text to target application:" option added to settings dialog box. The user can select between "As keystrokes sequence" or "Using clipboard". This option is used as a default for each macro.
- command updated.
- "Macro Properties" tab was simplified by moving more advanced and rarely used options to a dialog box accessible using new "More" button.
- Link to web page with macro examples was added to "Macro Text" tab.
- command fixes.
- command fixes.
- (...,CALC_EXPRESSION,...) command fixes.
- command extended with "port" and "SSL" attributes so that the command now can send e-mails using GMail SMTP server.
- Expressions evaluation fixes.
- New "_vSharedMacros_ReloadNow" system variable. ("_vSharedMacros_ReloadNow=YES","") command causes the shared macro file is reloaded. Shared macro file reload now can be controlled programmatically using a macro.
- New "_vOpt_SharedMacros_Enable" system variable. ("_vOpt_SharedMacros_Enable=YES","") command causes the shared macro file is enabled while ("_vOpt_SharedMacros_Enable=NO","") command causes the shared macro file is disabled.
- New "_vOpt_SharedMacros_File" system variable to programmatically set shared macros file. ("_vOpt_SharedMacros_File=c:\macroFiles\shared.4tw","") command causes the shared macro file is set to "c:\macroFiles\shared.4tw".
- command enhanced so that it can put also file shortcut to the clipboard. Example: ("FILE:c:\temp\file.txt") command puts shortcut to "c:\temp\file.txt" file to clipboard so that the file then can be copied using Windows Explorer "Paste" menu command.
- Additional minor fixes.
New in MacroToolbar Professional Edition 7.4.0 (May 5, 2012)
- Fixed a problem with starting program with parameters from network drive.
- Fixed a problem when program did not responded correctly if CPU was overloaded.
- Fixed a problem with entering characters with diacritic.
- More smaller fixes.
New in MacroToolbar Professional Edition 7.3.9 (May 5, 2012)
- Fixed a problem with sending certain keystrokes on international keyboards.
- - Fixed a problem with very large block of text.
- - Fixed a problem when multiple commands are called quickly. Is also faster now.
- - Fixed a problem when multiple commands are called quickly. Is also faster now.
- - Fixed a problem when multiple commands are called quickly.
- Macro execution (when ) is faster
- - if parameter is "1" then the sound is played asynchronously, if it is "0" the sound is played synchronously.
- returns -1 if the coordinates are out of range.
- A bug that caused item was unexpectedly disabled when clicked was fixed.
- - added exact/tolerant.
- - added exact/tolerant.
- - added exact/tolerant to "wait for image".
- A problem with command line file parameter starting with server (such as "\\server1\macros\....") was fixed.
- Window trigger (open) fixed so that it reacts to multiple windows with the same title (WIP).
- Fixed a problem with activating different Excel files (Book1, Book2, etc.) using command.
- "Paste to end" added to macro editor right-click menu.
- "Preserve clipboard content during macro execution" option added to Options / More...
- visual editor fixed.
- A bug causing the program consumed too much resources was fixed.
- Many additional smaller fixes and changes.