What's new in WinScheduler Free Edition 7.6.7
Nov 24, 2014
- Fixed: _vActiveWindow system variable returns just first character of currently active window.
New in WinScheduler Free Edition 7.6.6 (Nov 11, 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: [Professional edition only] FreeMacroPlayer macro file always contained toolbars even if no toolbar was created in source macro file.
- Fixed: Idle time trigger fixed.
- Fixed: In some cases "Win" key was "hold down" after computer wake up.
- Fixed: .4ws macro file is properly associated with the WinScheduler program.
- Fixed: command did not handle defined sub-menus properly.
- Some small fixes.
New in WinScheduler 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").
- Several smaller fixes.
New in WinScheduler Free Edition 7.6.4 (Jan 3, 2014)
- Clipboard commands and operations are optimized to retrieve plain text faster
- Smaller installation improvements
- Stability improvements
- Several smaller fixes
New in WinScheduler 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 WinScheduler Free Edition 7.6.1 (Apr 23, 2013)
- Fixed the macro copy/paste problem when macro scope settings were not copied.
- Additional minor fixes and changes.
New in WinScheduler Free Edition 7.6.0 (Apr 15, 2013)
- 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 when a menu to select from multiple macro with the same trigger was not closing when no macro was selected.
- 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 WinScheduler Free Edition 7.5.5 (Nov 20, 2012)
- Fixed a problem when macro recorder was not recording mouse events.
- Auto-save feature was changed to only save file if the file was modified by the user.
New in WinScheduler Free Edition 7.5.4 (Oct 15, 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 example command prompt, hidden.
- 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 happened that instead of macro text the last text in clipboard was pasted.
- Improved reliability of "file" and "directory" triggers - all triggers fires properly does not matter if the file or directory was changed/created/deleted when other macro was running.
- Fixed a problem that caused "clipboard macro" data were on certain circumstances lost from macro file.
- 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 input.
- All executables in the installation file are digitally signed now.
New in WinScheduler Free Edition 7.5.3 (Jun 25, 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.
- Fixed a problem when folder/file triggers (run macro when new file is created, etc.) did not work with network shared folders (\\server\myfiles\).
New in WinScheduler Free Edition 7.5.2 (May 15, 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 WinScheduler 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 WinScheduler Free Edition 7.5.0 (Feb 27, 2012)
- Time schedule trigger can wake up computer before macro is started. It is now possible to schedule macros that will be started also at the time when computer is in sleep or hibernate mode.
- 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.
- "Folder" trigger now watches files also in subfolders
- 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 when the program sometimes did not start minimized to tray as defined in settings.
- Fixed program crash when opening an old version file.
- 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