Macros
- Thread starter Ben89
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This is some good software. With the professional edition, you can turn specific tasks into .exe files and then run them without the macro on other computers.
That is all great, until screensaver locks your user account, and the software doesn't do anything as it has to be visually able to reproduce tasks on an active window settings. If it goes to sleep over night, the whole process gets broken until you login again or get the computer.
I guess I will need to buy a computer just for this shit to be happening in the background.
Check this one out too - Macro Recorder, Macro Program, Keyboard Macros & Mouse Macros
Much cheaper than winautomation.
Much cheaper than winautomation.
This is entirely true if you're doing something like web-based automation, but that sort of stuff should be done with ubot anyways imo. Anything else can be run in a few seconds if it's programmed correctly.
Win automation is basically just for people that want to do windows macros (ie. excel macros) that either extend beyond a single instance of a program, or don't require much experience programming. Entirely badass for data processing in spreadsheets, scraping stuff off web-pages, and manipulating variables.
Regardless, I've done some pretty amazing shit with winautomate, and its made me some pretty good money as a result. Highly recommend it.
ps. mouse recording is for chumps. learn how to manually program the commands or you'll never get a good output.
I definitely think you get what you pay for with winautomation. It has so many damn features...
I have a question for you guys that use winautomation though...
How can I create a task where it logs into a specific email account and searches for a specific email and then clicks a link within that email?
Logging into my email and retrieving a certain email I know how to do but I need the program to click a confirmation link within that email. Anyone?
I have a question for you guys that use winautomation though...
How can I create a task where it logs into a specific email account and searches for a specific email and then clicks a link within that email?
Logging into my email and retrieving a certain email I know how to do but I need the program to click a confirmation link within that email. Anyone?
I use Keyboard Maestro and Automator on my Mac.
http://www.keyboardmaestro.com/main/
The amount of time I save doing run of the mill tasks is sick. I have simple shit for SSH and migration of Joomla sites along with things like dumping and restoring databases.
Oh, and not that I use it, although I'd like to if I ever bother to learn, is Watir. Courtesy of dchuk.
http://watir.com/
And selenium, again, courtesy of dchuk.
http://seleniumhq.org/
http://www.keyboardmaestro.com/main/
The amount of time I save doing run of the mill tasks is sick. I have simple shit for SSH and migration of Joomla sites along with things like dumping and restoring databases.
Oh, and not that I use it, although I'd like to if I ever bother to learn, is Watir. Courtesy of dchuk.
http://watir.com/
And selenium, again, courtesy of dchuk.
http://seleniumhq.org/
I have no idea why you'd ever need to do something like this, but I guess I'm not one to judge. Here's a trick I've used in the past:
1) Open the email
2) send keys (cntrl + f)
3) send keys ('whatever the anchored text will be')
4) search for image (highlighted text) + move mouse to image when found
5) send left mouse click.
To pull this off, you manually complete the task first. Once you've found the highlighted text with the find function, use the in-program screencap to select the highlighted text, while ensuring that the top left pixel is part of the colored portion that is highlighted (so for me that's blue).
The end result is that the comp opens ur email, sends a find command to highlight the anchored text, moves me the mouse to the highlighted text that you just searched, and then clicks on it...which will activate the link and send you to the destination.
Another option (depending on your email provider) would be to download the email in HTML (ie. download webpage command), parse the text for the anchoring link, and then open a new window with that link...that'd be more efficient, but requires a bit more work.