Pulover's Macro Creator v5.4.1 - The Complete Automation Tool

[Pulover]

No, I'm fine. Just very very busy, as usual.

[WOlfen]

No, I'm fine. Just very very busy, as usual.

Hmm, i see.
Well, thanks for asking too, i guess.

[ranjit]

HI,
I am trying to use OCR to read numerals from a web page onto an excel sheet. What are the steps? Is it given in some help page? Briefly, there are five blocks of numbers that I want to place on cells A1 to A5 in the worksheet. The OCR dropdown (F7) isn't self-explanatory. Any help would be appreciatd. thanks

[Pulover]

HI,
I am trying to use OCR to read numerals from a web page onto an excel sheet. What are the steps? Is it given in some help page? Briefly, there are five blocks of numbers that I want to place on cells A1 to A5 in the worksheet. The OCR dropdown (F7) isn't self-explanatory. Any help would be appreciatd. thanks

https://www.macrocreator.com/2020/09/22/version-update-5-2-0/

[Pulover]

Version Update!

Version 5.4.1

• Added a sleep when collecting data to save project to improve reliability.
• Fixed bug with escaped characters in expressions.
• Fixed Until option unchecked when editting a loop command.
• Fixed bug when selecting some options in the Speed Up/Down menus.

Download version 5.4.1

[Xpressd]

Thanks for making this great program Pulover, It has helped me so much over the past few years, I have gotten much better at learning and using all the features AHK has to offer by just visually being able to see all the possibilites.
I even learned regular expression by using your program.

My work computer upgraded to Windows 11 and now I am having issues with coordinates..









and when screenshotting the whole page there is all this extra black area on the edges ( not sure if that effects anything just wanted to mention it because I never had seen that before )

maybe MacroCreator doesn't work with Windows11? (yet?)

I will have to build it in AHK for now - thanks again for the amazing program (and the updates) you are a hero

[Xpressd]

HI,
I am trying to use OCR to read numerals from a web page onto an excel sheet. What are the steps? Is it given in some help page? Briefly, there are five blocks of numbers that I want to place on cells A1 to A5 in the worksheet. The OCR dropdown (F7) isn't self-explanatory. Any help would be appreciatd. thanks

F7 will search for the supplied image - it can return coordinates and run if statements, it is not OCR.
You could possibly build an OCR program by adding each individual letter as a picture and an If statement saying type letter a if a is found

but F7 in itself is not a OCR Program, goodluck.

[Pulover]

HI,
I am trying to use OCR to read numerals from a web page onto an excel sheet. What are the steps? Is it given in some help page? Briefly, there are five blocks of numbers that I want to place on cells A1 to A5 in the worksheet. The OCR dropdown (F7) isn't self-explanatory. Any help would be appreciatd. thanks

https://www.macrocreator.com/2020/09/22/version-update-5-2-0/

[Pulover]

Thanks for making this great program Pulover, It has helped me so much over the past few years, I have gotten much better at learning and using all the features AHK has to offer by just visually being able to see all the possibilites.

I even learned regular expression by using your program.

Thank you for the feedback! I'm glad to know that you are learning using my program.

My work computer upgraded to Windows 11 and now I am having issues with coordinates..

and when screenshotting the whole page there is all this extra black area on the edges ( not sure if that effects anything just wanted to mention it because I never had seen that before )

maybe MacroCreator doesn't work with Windows11? (yet?)

I've just upgraded to Windows 11 and I see nothing wrong with coordinates when taking screenshots... No idea what could be happening for you.

[Xpressd]

I tried again today, and it was working wonderfully - thanks again.

[xrasp]

Hello!

First of all, I want to thank you for making the AHK really available to us who don't have time to learn it from the ground up.

And my problem - I need to use the ScrCmp function (I need PMC to check a region of a screen that will be changing for a certain period of time (every 100ms for 100 times) and when the screen stops changing execute next lines) but just can not find a way/have no clue how to do that in PMC.

Could you please give any pointers on how to do it?

Thank you in advance.

[DuckTheCow]

Version Update!

Version 5.4.1

• Added a sleep when collecting data to save project to improve reliability.
• Fixed bug with escaped characters in expressions.
• Fixed Until option unchecked when editting a loop command.
• Fixed bug when selecting some options in the Speed Up/Down menus.

Download version 5.4.1

@Pulover why does the install contain bloatware? Seems pretty shady. Especially since you closed an issue without replying where the user was asking if the inclusion of bloatware was intentional.

[noksu]

Version Update!

Version 5.4.1

• Added a sleep when collecting data to save project to improve reliability.
• Fixed bug with escaped characters in expressions.
• Fixed Until option unchecked when editting a loop command.
• Fixed bug when selecting some options in the Speed Up/Down menus.

Download version 5.4.1

@Pulover why does the install contain bloatware? Seems pretty shady. Especially since you closed an issue without replying where the user was asking if the inclusion of bloatware was intentional.

Would also like to know why installer contains Web Companion from lavasoft?

[Xpressd]

Hey, I am wondering how I can use Directives inside of PMC

I am specifically trying to remove all the extra EndChars from Hotstrings and just leave `t to activate the hotstrings (rather than -()[]{}:;'"/\,.?!`n `t)

adding this line to my script should do it:

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#Hotstring EndChars `t

but I am not sure how to add just that line into the script using PMC, does anybody know how I can do this?

Edit:
A work around for this specific directive, I made a function:

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Hotstring("EndChars", "`t")

What is the proper way to add to the autoexecute section of a script in PMC - is there anyway to have this function activated automatically at runtime of the script or do I need to have it called by a hotkey every time the script is opened?

Thanks,

[Pulover]

This specific directive is not available in PMC.

As for the other question, you can create a shortcut that includes the command line parameters to activate hotkeys and play one of them when it opens. https://www.macrocreator.com/docs/Main.html#command-line-parameters

[Xpressd]

This specific directive is not available in PMC.

As for the other question, you can create a shortcut that includes the command line parameters to activate hotkeys and play one of them when it opens. https://www.macrocreator.com/docs/Main.html#command-line-parameters

Thanks I was able to create a shortcut and launch the 1st macro on the list by changing my target in the Shortcut to:

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"C:\Program Files\MacroCreator\MacroCreator.exe" scripts\HSTest.pmc -a1

and now I can use hotstrings without them being so intrusive,
Thanks for all your help (and great program) Pulover!

[Azrael1018]

I have a cloud application I run on 9 properties each month (sometimes mid-month) (numerous reports for each property (e.g. Balance Sheet, Income Statement, etc.), same general layout)
I choose to run a particular report, it goes to another screen, then I select options.
Most options are the same all the time. However, I need to choose certain options depending on month:

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Marked in Yellow are the ones I need to select. e.g. check Feb and drop down to 2022.
Marked in Blue stay the same.

I can initiate this screen, check blue boxes, run report and save as needed.

However, I cannot figure out how to get it to pause so that I can check the boxes I need and the year, then resume.

Ideas? Help?

Thank you - David

[Bongskie_26]

Newbie here.

Summing numerical string input was working before but now I cannot add both number, it keeps concatenating.

Example:
1. Scanning and Input String and storing on Clipboard, "123 + 456"
2. Use String Split func with space delimeter (variable str), i.e., str1 := "123"; str2 := "+"; str3 := "456"
3. Adding both str1 and str2. i.e., sum := str1+str3
4. Expected output is sum := 579 (before) but I am getting sum:= "123456" (now). It seems treating str1 and str3 as string now but it is treating them integers type and adding correctly before.

I would like to ask how to correctly change or format str1 and str3 as integer type so I can add them, and not treating them as strings. I tried Format func as decimal integer {:d}, tried to include it in a math op "Abs", and tried to include them first in math operation like str1:=str1*1, but not feasible.

Hope you can help me.

Thank you very much.

[NodeX]

(OS: Windows 7)

1. Image search doesn't work, no matter what I tried.
No way to know at which part it failed either, eg:
- Did it click at all?
- Was the duration probably too short?
Zero feedback.

2. Control-based click cannot even recognize the control I clicked - it doesn't get its name/class/id, whatever.
Its requirements are not mentioned at all -they are unknown... or secret.
I even found and entered the control's class name manually, and that didn't work either.
No feedback whether that name worked, or not.

3. The mouse recorder doesn't relate its clicks
- not on a control's position,
- nor on image search,
- nor on relative coordinates,
nothing - zero flexibility.

4. I have to exit PMC then restart and reload the script, otherwise it doesn't work at all.

Bottom line, the above mentioned #1 and #2 serious unresolved bugs and the #3 & #4 semi-implemented one, make it completely useless for me.
I spent the whole day and it couldn't make a single successful click.
Personally I wouldn't publish software before I resolved its critical bugs at least, unless I wanted to torture thousands of people... for free.

[Pulover]

However, I cannot figure out how to get it to pause so that I can check the boxes I need and the year, then resume.

Ideas? Help?

Thank you - David

A MsgBox or InputBox are usually good ways to do that.