Macro Express Pro Tutorial (2 of 5) - Commands

This video is a tutorial for the Macro Express Pro macro commands. This is video 2 of 5.

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hi welcome to my second macro Express
Pro tutorial
in the first tutorial I talked about
macro Express
as a program and its menu options even
got into the
activation methods for a macro she in
this tutorial
I'm going to discuss a lot of the
commands you can use
in macros source just heard by editing
our sample macro care
I simply double clicked on it opener now
there's menu options here ants you want
to explore that a little bit to get a
better feel for what you can do
inside this macro editor you got shares
said in close said all xxx enter
she down here at the bottom you have a
tab for each macro that you have open
you can edit multiple matters at the
same time sure this first half sure you
have all the commands you can work with
inside a macro our next tab is
activations
and you should recognize us if you wash
my previous tutorial
these are the ways that you can activate
this macro
you can actually add wanna each of these
types if you wish
variables you can have controlled a
small
manager and tax they can be named
variables some miscellaneous options
scope you can specify is a say
global macro does it run wherever and
whenever
or is it only run when a specific when
your program
are selected show was a global except
for a specific window or program
you have security where you can specify
that I don't want to protect this
macro the password ronny is a single
password to protect
both run and at or I want to
editing run with different passwords
believed that as do not
and then notes if you so desire four get
started with commands I wondered
talk a little bit more about variables
burn it was simply a place for a macro
to put
a value before it's ready for so it can
store
numeric values like integers which is a
whole number
order smalls or can store a text value
well macro Express Pro has quite an
advantage over macro Express
and that macro Express only had Chi
and up to 99 values for text values
macro Express Pro
you can do named variables and virtually
as many as you like
and on top of that will say that we
needed
10 time values well we can make this
into an array
10 now time position one has 1w time
position to is another value and so on
up to 10
the such a lot of power macro Express
Pro
and some other commands actual user to k
let's move on to the commands
Sandra senior on the contrary we have
all the options you might want to use
control your cd-rom
sheesh don't really is is very often so
I'm gonna move onto
report she the clipboard has a lot of
useful commands
you have copycat MT paste
12 useful commands as a Pentax this will
allow you to take what's in your
clipboard independent to a file
or you could simply save what's in your
clipboard
to the file another command that you can
use here is
type clipart texan that will type
wherever your cursor is
so spot that when an and if I
want to add a command right about here
like copy he is a stop button and you'll
see that inserts at a bunch
now phone answer right below clipboard
copy I can use this button here
and if I want insert one at the very end
I can use this one here now you can use
these
girls over here to change the order
other
your commands you can use this one
to copy you also do control C controlled
be to copy and paste
this button here will add a line comment
to just outline if you so desire
this button will disable the line
and you could select multiple lines and
disable them
this button will show us the direct
editor and this is what the commands
actually look like
under the covers such as well don't
expect you'll use that very often
no I mean he is not going to use this
command some gonna go ahead and delete
does
and let's move on to debug here you can
see we have several commands for
during debug you can catch shares some
lawyers and whatnot
when catcher we have several options
here
we can catch specific events that take
place and do something about them
sure you can see in dust up there are a
few commands that
you may or may not use I don't tend to
use some very awesome but we're
minimizing all restoring all
senator she's
dialogues have very valuable commands to
still oust give the user information or
get information from the user
for example message box is a very simple
message box it simply has a title and a
message
just we can also choose an icon if we so
desire
I'm not going to for this example and as
a test run on notice there's a dialogue
here
this is macro Express pro allowing you
to select a window to activate the store
we run a macro
because we're testing it through the
editor are not going to change the
window right now
so you'll see that we get our success
message and it showed up right in the
middle of the screen
we don't have any control over where its
position or size
sheesh that's where text box display can
send
this allows us to give a message
and not only that but we can position
that's we can manually
custom the shape and size room that's
pretty good
do I wanted on the left two and one on
the top in the corner
how bout centered sheesh salsa shaver
an EC we also have a couple options like
always on top
keep focus so we have one more control
over this display
saucer came I don't delete the other one
and we'll have a look at what this looks
like
there we are I have completed your task
I don't mean this anymore some min ago
and a leader
update text box would take a dialogue
you've created with this particular
header
were title a jewel and update its
contents to
whatever you have here
multiple choice menu allows us to get
information from the user
we can ask a question and they can
select one
or the conflict multiple choices house
would work as you it set a variable here
name given a title
and a prompt
and some answers
now if we choose save item by
value little place inside are variable
the letter A if they choose Yes
roller derby if they choose not
christians
item by text who actually placed yes or
no
in the variable depending on what they
picked sheesh and once again you can
position manually
on this option no one thing I wanna show
you all I have this open
is on-air most other commands have an
on-air tap
and these are specific
actions that might happen or not happen
with this particular object or command
and
then you can select what you want to do
based
on that option the soul out you too
reduced more debugging and
figure out what's going wrong with your
script
explore gives us a way to open a folder
on the Windows machine sheesh special
Explorer folder would give you the
option to just
open a folder based on the type rather
than on a specific
how
files and folders has several useful
commands
we can copy files delete files rename
files
move files will you do those with
folders as well or change the folder
directory
show you delete files and folders you
can specify a file
have here sheesh and show the dialog box
progress
workers into subfolders using wild cards
you can delete them permanently rather
than putting them into your recycling
bin
we can also text file begin process
this allows us to open a text file
and do something with each line in the
textile
we specify the file sure we specify the
line number that we wanna start on
and then we specify whether we want all
the rest it aligns
or just a few of them we can specify how
many we want
replace those into a variable ball we're
working on
well how would that be different from
ASCII file began process
ASCII file begin process we also open a
text file
and begin to process a but we choose the
type
the comma separated value is a
tab-delimited
brass key to limit sheesh for example a
tab-delimited text file would have
a value a tab a value a tab
a value and then maybe a line break and
then you have your next line
sheesh you also begin processing in a
specified line
and you also choose whether you want all
records or just a specified number
but then we put it an array
and each of those values separated by
tabs for example
would go into a different position
within the array
you can also parse blank lines and you
can clear the Arabian for processing the
file
under internet we have a couple of
commands a standout is very useful
email send and website if you use FTP
these FTP commands could be useful as
well
with email send real specify who we want
to send
to know we can
ask the user at runtime to specify
who we want to send it to you
we can select a message that we have to
find here
or we can ask runtime: what the user
wants the message de
we can pull it from the clipboard where
we constructed from a file
we can also attach files to our email
before we send website
you specify the URL hair and you can
choose you want to
opening your default browser for
Internet Explorer
without a man to conclude this tutorial
look for the next one because
there are a lot of valuable commands
coming up here