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By: Monson Marukatat

Monson Marukatat — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 07:16:00 +0000

This is what I have been looking for. It greatly helps automate multiple mouse-and-keyboard procedures I have to go through day in and day out. My life has improved greatly by such a wonderful program.

By: Amir

Amir — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 12:43:15 +0000

Nice.
Personally I am using CryptIT – a nice little tool I wrote for personal use:
http://jerbia.googlepages.com

By: Fubar

Fubar — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 12:16:33 +0000

Many of the problems that people have with this come from not reading the Help file (as always, and as I talked about in comment #17). The Options pane associated with each entry should be named Object Search Options. “Wait for repeats count” (sic) is the number of times it should try to find the UI object if the initial search fails; this mode doesn’t seem very useful since a fast computer will probably cycle almost instantly. “Wait for time” is how long to search for the UI object; this is NOT a delay! “Unlimited wait” will continue searching for the UI object until it becomes available; enables user input even when blocked in global Options (necessary, to allow macro execution termination if the object doesn’t become available). “Exact match” will look for an exact match for the requested UI object; useful to keep from selecting the wrong UI object when it can’t find the requested one. As for the global Options, decreasing “Delay after each step” to speed up execution, may decrease macro reliability. If you’re new to MouseRobot, you may want to uncheck “Block user input” until you’ve verified that your macros are functioning correctly (blocking user input during macro playback is otherwise generally a good idea).

#29, ColPeters, there is a pause feature, although the implementation is odd. In a Keyboard field, put {WAIT n}, where n is the number of seconds to pause (the braces are required). Don’t have a convenient text field? Simply create an entry for almost anything, change its type to Keyboard if it’s created as Mouse. As for the size of the macros, that’s mostly from the screen-region captures, which I like because they make it very easy to read and edit the macros.

I’m a little amused that people gave my comment #19 thumbs-down. It’s a description of how to overcome a limitation (and an unnecessary one, at that) in MouseRobot. But then, I don’t pay any attention to the thumbs-up / thumbs-down ratings, because people use them so senselessly.

By: Xsouldeath

Xsouldeath — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 06:39:39 +0000

Mouse and Key Recorder is better than AutoIt, and MouseRobot.
MouseRobot cannot record actions, so the user has to manually select each step.

Mouse and Key Recorder generates a script based on actions and can use relative or absolute positioning. I was able to get it to automatically attach and e-mail a file.

By: ColPeters

ColPeters — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 05:12:29 +0000

VERY interesting program.
This “Object tracking” business is in my (very limited) experience a first for a macro prog, the couple of others I’ve tried just can’t handle window moving & resizing. Other progs are more versatile and powerfull in other ways but for me this prog will take care of a few important & time consuming tasks.

One drawback I found was that it was very difficult to create a pause in execution so that I could examine an output window before contining the task and shutting the subject program down. In fact it took me the best part of an hour and the only method I found that worked was clunky but well…it works.

Another thing I noticed was that even a fairly simple task produced a quite large ‘macro’ file (~500kB) though I guess that’s not a problem for most people in this day of huge disks. I guess that’s the price you pay for Mouse Robot to be able to find it’s “Object” wherever it is. I will definitely be using this program.

Thanks !

By: VideoTech

VideoTech — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 03:19:57 +0000

#3 (Laptop CoolNESS) – Do you have a link to this product you found on sourceforge? I don’t find anything by that name.

By: TK

TK — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 02:17:55 +0000

Found a workaround for IE7 on vista with mouserobot,

Use the Quicklaunch shortcut to run IE7 as an Adminstrator, and also run MouseRobot as an Adminstrator… seems to work for me… no crashes and each object is being annotated by the red box with Ctrl Esc titles.

I would suggest that you do NOT save the macro launching IE7 as an adminstrator as the macro would then play that back and expose you to unacceptable risks. I would suggest you Initially record/compose the macro with the launching as adminstrator step included, but after composing the parts within IE7 itself, go back and replace the IE7 startup step with a conventional startup… might give you the best of both worlds, can’t test it at the moment, I’ll leave that as an exercise for the reader.

By: tkelly46

tkelly46 — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 23:27:39 +0000

I would like to say this is a great little program and it is fast and very easy to use, you just click on the + for a new action or +… for a series of actions and the you got your first step and the button or icon will be surrounded with a red square and you click the Ctrl button to select that action, you can set it for two clicks for icons opr one click for buttons and you can leave them all set at 5000 mls and when you run it after you have completed all the steps for the acyion you want to do it will be very fast. if you create an action to go to a web site it will open your browser and got to the site you set very quickly with out waiting for Iexplorer to open it will open all most instantly and just as fast it will open the web site you set. Thank you GAOTD this is a good one and I love it.

By: leftey

leftey — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 23:17:30 +0000

Thank,s Gaotd.

I find it terribly complicated to register ,I tried it twice Now i will give it away as too much time of a time waster & is it worth it

By: KenaiI

KenaiI — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 22:05:51 +0000

Well, I like it. I am a trainee web-site builder (with a penchant for organization, and who will soon go into business for himself), and I will say it’s a pain in the butt for me navigating to the folders where the files are stored, time wise. With this program, after I skimmed through the help file, I hit the “add multiple actions” button, and ‘programmed’ the macro to go down to the folder where my stuff is (8 levels), open two documents to edit, and to load one of them to Firefox. After a little bit of editing in the program, I can double click the script icon on my desktop, and a few seconds later my work area is ready to go.

I had tried other types of macro programs before, but have not used them because I don’t have time to learn how to do the things that this program offers to do for me in the main interface. Sure, this would not be the best for art purposes, but for mindless tasks routinely done, it rocks.

I would give this two thumbs up if I had the chance. I might even buy it for the other two computers in my house, to show my support for the company who built this.

Thanks, GAOTD. This is the most useful program for me thus far.

–My opinion, of course. I am only showing my support and appreciation, not attacking anybody.–