I have been trying to get some internet macro’s working, and being challenged by the process. Along the way I have picked up some handy productivity tips that I’d like to share.<\/p>\n
First, I need to highlight a few downsides to things.\u00a0 I am developing a macro to automate opening up my Blog site, so I can start a post straight away. I have a link on my Quick Access Popup<\/strong> <\/a>menu to quickly load the .exe file to run it.<\/p>\n I am using Pulover’s Macro Creator<\/strong><\/a> (PMC) that does a fine job. It looks daunting at the beginning but in fact I like the workflow. I moved on to this from the Tiny Tasks<\/strong><\/a> macro recorder, which basically follows your mouse and key strokes. A fine tool, but you can’t refine it to speed it up (you can practice the mouse movements so you’re more proficient<\/em>).\u00a0 I wanted to see if I could get some more transportable code that I could use on any machine.PMC runs on top of AutoHotKey<\/strong> <\/a>(AHK)which I think is a brilliant free tool.<\/p>\n When I have been running the PMC macro from the PMC screen, it works fine. You can then export it to a .AHK file extension, and if you have AHK on your machine you can right click the file and 1\/ Run it, 2\/ Edit the file, 3\/ Compile it to a .EXE file.<\/p>\n Well, the .AHK and >EXE files do not work. In AHK posts there seems to be an issue with AHK and Win10. One solution is the run the programme in Administrator. [ I was wrong, a NOOB ERROR, I’d started the .AKH and or the .EXE file but had not activated them with, in this case, the F4 key..oops!<\/em><\/span>].<\/p>\n So it looks like I will get some more transportable code after all.<\/p>\n I started using a mouse to activate things, then found that Firefox had a lot of Keyboard shortcuts built in, so I could use these instead. One reason for the Keyboard shortcuts is that on Firefox trying to find active areas\u00a0 using the equivalent of\u00a0 UiPath & AutoIt Finder Tool, which is Au3_spy.exe<\/strong> (found in the directory where AHK loaded) could not find any unique codes for these zones.<\/p>\n I found this video interesting on uses for AutoHotKey (and I note he has PMC on his computer too). I am interested in the autocorrect\/convert abbreviations to full strings interesting as I do do some standard typo’s that would be great to have auto-corrected)
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