Key Presses record but will not play back--only mouse clicks will do both

[BFR]

I created a macro by using the Record function, but on playback only the mouse clicks/movements actually play. The keyboard actions don't happen even though I can see the utility going through the steps.

What am I doing incorrectly?

[Peter Verbeek]

Sorry that my response is this late.

This can be 3 things:
1. The targeted program doesn't allow for keys to be entered by your macro.
2. Macronize doesn't have enough rights to enter any key to any program (It needs administrative rights, the highest level).
3. The focus isn't on the text box/field yet. Sometimes a mouse click on the text box/field has to be done first. By doing this the text box/field gets focus and characters/keys can be entered.

[DOS]

Am new to SourceForge and Forums and new to Macronize.exe.
Macronize 1.0.2.0 installed OK on my Win10 box. Any steps with mouseclick crashes Macronize.exe.

Launched as Admin via a desktop link.
Select a process (Chrome.exe, cmd.exe, Calculator): Chrome
Clicked Add Step Type: "Mouse click" Description: "mytest". Mouse action: "Left button click".. "Relative to pgm win pos"

The problem is when I press "Detect" button, a popup appears: AutoIt Error:
"Line 34470 (File "C:\user....\Macronize.exe"): Error: Variable subscript badly formatted."

It runs ok when script contains only the DelayingStep type.

Thank you for your time.

[Peter Verbeek]

Hi,

I've found the bug you've stumbled upon. Thanks for reporting this to me. I'll correct it and report back to you.

[Peter Verbeek]

To bypass this bug for now: Create a first macro step of any kind, for instance a comment. Then add the wanted mouse click step.

[DOS]

Your suggested fix worked. Thank you for your help.

A new problem surfaced when I run the following macro. It has these three
instructions:
-- Delay 3
-- Left button click (on EMPTY windows 10 desktop area)
-- Left button click (in an PRE-EXISTING open DOS shell window)

< a Macronize pop up appears saying>

"To prevent problems the macro has been stopped.
A different process (other) than the macro process explorer.exe (7284) was
being activated: cmd.exe (8040)...."

Problem is I cannot turn off that warning. I clicked Options/Settings/ and
unchecked the box "Show process checking warning" but the pop up still
occurs. How do I turn off the warning?

Thank you for your time.

[Peter Verbeek]

Great to hear the fix works. I've almost completed a new version of Macronize which has this bug removed.

Macronize is very secure in applying the macro to a specific process of the target program. You can imagine when another window pops up on its own (and that may happen) that suddenly the macro is applied on that window. And then things go wrong very rapidly. Therefore Macronize is continously checking if the played macro "stays" within the selected process.

Knowing the above, creating a multi-process macro is done by selecting the proper process before any other macro step is performed on that process. One might also start a program thus creating its process. Macronize continues to do the macro steps on this new process.

In your case you need to select the explorer.exe (say the desktop process) and the DOS shell window and do the macro steps on them.
-- Delay 3
-- Select explorer.exe process
-- Left button click (on EMPTY windows 10 desktop area)
-- Select DOS shell window
-- Left button click (in an PRE-EXISTING open DOS shell window)

I must say that I don't understand the clicking of the desktop area. Couldn't you just select the existing DOS shell window?