Macro Recorder version history

Version 5.6.3

Fixed "mouse for lefties" setting
Show an error when macro path exceeds 256 chars in "play another macro" command
Loop iteration counter now resets when you jump out of the loop using GOTO command
New setting - do not restore mouse position after playback
Possible fix for find image similarity coefficient
Compiled EXE files now respect global playback speed settings

Version 5.6.0

More Windows 8 fixes, and ALL antivirus false-positives are finally fixed
Macro-recording timer precision set to 2 ms (since playback ignores timeouts <2ms anyway)
Increased playback resolution, performance improved
Fixed icon for EXE-compiled macros.
New macro command - "If Pixel Found within rectangle"
Top-most message-boxes
New macro command "Run C# code snippet"!
General fixes

Version 5.5.5

Fixed occasional crashes when offline
Reworked serial-number engine. Fixes slow startup in Windows 8

Version 5.5.3

Fixed toolbars position when Windows Task Bar is on the left
Repeat random number of times (fixes #85)
tiny radio button aligment fix
Fixed occasional crashes when offline

Version 5.5.0

Correct "play/record" toolbar positioning if windows taskbar is configured to be at the top.
Macro scheduler
Updated manual

Version 5.4.10

Fixes #68 - "open file" command runs twice sometimes

Version 5.4.9

Larger delay randomizer field (up to 3 hours randomize delay)
Command line support (/a and /c switches), updated docs
Minor improvements and fixes

Version 5.4.8

Fixes #78 (single-instance app reworked, caused problems on Windows 8)
Fixes #76 (cannot select region under the "Select region" text)
Correct "are you sure you want to record over existing" message-box suppression
Fixed relative-coordinates macro replay (SmartREC)
Possible minor fix for the "showdialog" error
Fixed the "IF image" bug when testing the command after playing a macro (fixes #80). Fixed incorrect auto-closing the play-bar (when not necessary).

Version 5.4.7

Fixed - single-instance app errors on some Windows 8 machines
Fixed - cannot select region under the "Select region" text in image-commands
Correct "are you sure you want to record over existing" message-box suppression
Fixed relative-coordinates macro replay (SmartREC)

Version 5.4.6

Saving window position fixed
New icon
New "tools" menu item - "Restart as administrator". Other minor fixes.
Fixed some typos in the UI

Version 5.4.5

Playback settings - repeat number fixed
Resizable startup screen - to see recently recorded macros with long paths
"Exit loop" command fixes, now it properly resets the loop-counter so "if iteration" commands work correctly
MOD check for the "IF Current iteration equals" command
If "hide macro-player" setting is ON, the player is still shown when you pause macro playback, for convenience
Option to remove the macro-recording confirmation that prompts to save changes

Version 5.4.3

Minor bugfixes
Improved against A/V false positive alerts
"Pause playback on mouse move" - lower sensitivity
Macro Recorder window does not take focus after playback is finished if the setting "hide playback window" is ON

Version 5.4.2

New command - move/resize window
Minor UI improvements in command-editing forms

Version 5.4.1

File-copy command improvements and fixes
Image-finder commands now have "similarity" coefficient

Version 5.4.0

Fix: crash when aborting macro played via HotkeyLauncher
Empty-clipboard fix
Settings-dialog UI fixes, new option "play/rec toolbars on the right side"
Fix: "wait for process" command-editor bug
Signing the macro-launcher executable to prevent AV false-positive.
Fixed the double-clicking bug on the macro-recording toolbar
Option to "randomize" mouse position
"If File Exists" command now understands wildcard patterns, not just exact file names
Typos corrected in the UI and user-manual
Allowing tilde, dot and other "special" symbols for hotkey assignments

Version 5.3.13

Clipboard commands fix
fix - IF IMAGE command now has an option to move mouse to the image
Fixes the "prompt for number of repeats" crash.
Fixed error loading some scripts
"Wait for user" fixed (thread safe hotkeys)
Repeat-counter improvements
fix - correct IF IMAGE command saving
Fix - messagebox-commands on top
fix - main form still shown when launching macros from command line)
fix - crash when aborting macro played via HotkeyLauncher

Version 5.3.10

Async macros-replay playback thread, smooth progress-bar updating while playing
Restored playback counter on the toolbar

Version 5.3.9

"Capture current position" hotkey for the mouse-command editor
"EXIT-loop" command fix
Recent files list order fix
Performance improvements, UI tweaks

Version 5.3.8.4

Progress-bar when playing macro
Aborting EXE-macros fixed
Wait for window command fixed
"Find image" command improved A LOT

Version 5.3.8

"Paste from clipboard" command
Color-picker in pixel-commands
Selecting a rectangle for "find pixel" command
Memory leaks fixes
"Select commands by type" feature
Correctly opens macros from VERY old versions (3.xx etc)
User-interface improvements

Version 5.3.4

Fixed pixel-command performance
New feature - setting mouse coordinates "relative to current mouse position" and recording mouse offsets instead of actual coordinates
Improved manual
Mouse macro editor improved, "click" & ""right-click artificial commands
UI improvements (buttons enable/disable), new feature (recording appends to a macro)
Fixed "play the whole macro then record" feature
Improved updater
New macro command - 'If pixel NOT equals'
Custom prompt-message for a number of repeats in the repeat command
"Exit loop" command fixes
Preventing the "same label name" warning when playing nested macros

Version 5.3.0.2

Faster macro-playing performance
Smaller download size
Fixed saving Macro Recorder's main window position

Version 5.3.0

Lots of minor improvements
New improved interface (design, icons)
Performance improvements, less files and libraries required, etc

Version 5.2.0.8

Improved drag-n-drop operations in the macro-commands list
The welcome-screen can now be re-enabled in "settings" dialog
Image-commands improvements

Version 5.2.0.6

Type text compiling to EXE - fixed
Improved "IF Clipboard" command - now it does not trim the entered text, so you can match spaces and carriage-returns

Version 5.2.0.5

Mouse wheel recording fixes
Find pixel improvements
New command - "IF IMAGE found"
Hotkey validation added to the settings-dialog
New type of keyboard command - "KeyPress" (along with KeyUp and KeyDown)

Version 5.2.0

New awesome command - "Find image on the screen"
"Run as administrator" option for the "open file" command
UI improvements
Fixed "find pixel" crashes on some machines
Lets of minor improvements throughout the program

Version 5.1.2.8

More compatibility improvements for the Keyboard simulator (Remote Desktop, Citrix etc)

Version 5.1.2.7

Fixed saving/loading "Wait For Process" macro command
Added "timeout" setting to the "Wait for user" command
Fixed the "randomize delay" feature
"Repeat X times" can now take th number of repeats from clipboard

Version 5.1.2.5

Fixed randomizing delay
Minor UI-improvements

Version 5.1.2.4

Regexs in comparison commands are case-insensitive now
New feature - Pause macro recording
Some Macro Launcher fixes

Version 5.1.2

Resolved the "sending keystrokes to Remote Desktop" issue
Added new command "type environment variable"
Some minor fixes

Version 5.1.1.7

Citrix improvements
UI-improvements ("settings" dialog)
No unneeded warnings "failed to register hotkey"
Clipboard improvements
Enabling/disabling hotkeys in Macro Launcher
New command: Increment clipboard
New command: IF Windows in focus
Preventing "sticky-key" issue

Version 5.1.1

"Nice" error message when playing a macro with more than one label with the same name
Resolves antivirus false-positives

Version 5.1.0

Citrix-compatible keyboard automation - sends keystrokes recognized by the terminal
Macro file-association fix
Comment-command saving fixed
"Test the IF-statement" button for all "IF" commands in a macro
Allows negative mouse-coordinates (for mouse-recording on multiple monitors)
Hotkey-macro-launcher "start-minimized" fixes
Performance and memory improvements
Lots of minor bug-fixes and improvements in the Macro Recorder engine

Version 5.0.3

Playback settings are now compiled to the EXE file
Type-text command improvements
"If iteration equals" command fixes, "Set clipboard" command fixes
EXE-compiler improvements
Playback-record keyboard shortcuts now allow single-key hotkeys
Clipboard fixes
Hotkey launcher fixed (was not starting macros when minimized)
Delay command editor improvements
"Settings" form improvements
"Goto" command fixes
Performance improvements - copy-paste speed, import macro speed etc etc
Added a startup form
Fixed opening macros from command line
Macro playback can now be aborted while "Wait for user" command is executing
Delay command fixes
Lots of minor improvements

Version 5.0.2

All-new engine
Auto-updater
Secure code signature
Lots of bug-fixes

Version 4.71

Minor UI-improvements
Minor performance improvements
Fixed: when the recording process was aborted with a key combination, keyboard sometimes stays locked after playback

Version 4.70

"Hide playing box" setting fixed
The default "abort" key is changed from Scroll-Lock to Ctrl+Q
Correct hotkey display on the "recording" window
Trial is now 40 days
The "if pixel color" commandcan now work with relative coordinates
Minor UI-improvements

Version 4.69

Play buttons are disabled if there are no commands in a macro
Random delay event (the long awaited feature is finally here)
Exit confirmation now properly prompts for unsaved macro
Fixed the "failed to register hotkeys" message when hotkeys are set to "None", fixed the play-box text
Saving an empty file - fixed
Minor interface improvements

Version 4.68

Step-by-step playback
Option to specify delays in hour:minutes:seconds rather than milliseconds
The "IF Clipboard" command now has an option "greater than"
New command "set clipboard value"
Fixed the Macro Launcher error "Your key is not valid"

Version 4.67

Compiled exe-s now also show the blue "playing" box
Compiled exe-macros now allow pausing and aborting with the same hotkeys
"Type text" and "type date" commands improved
Performance improvements
Improved installer, smaller file size
Speedy replays are now more accurate

Version 4.66

Fixed the occasional "failed registering hotkeys" error after launching a macro via shell-open

Version 4.65

Fixed the "Play another macro" command

Version 4.64

Compiled exe-s now also show the blue "playing" box
Compiled exe-macros now allow pausing and aborting with the same hotkeys
"Type text" and "type date" commands improved
Performance improvements
Improved installer, smaller file size
Speedy replays are now more accurate

Version 4.63

Fixed EXE-compiler
Performance improvements

Version 4.62

Improved performance
New command - "Find Pixel by Color"
Infinite wait for window
Infinite wait for process

Version 4.61

Improved installer
New command - Play a saved macro
Improved performance

Version 4.6

Possible antivirus false alarms eliminated
New command - "wait for ANY user activity"
Lots of inner improvements, new architecture
Macro Launcher now also shows the "playback" status window on top

Version 4.53

Correct "swapped mouse buttons" processing for left-handed users

Version 4.52

Fixed "your key is not valid for this version" error when starting Macro Launcher
Fixed the "copy-file" command editor
"Play" button added to Macro Launcher
General Macro Launcher improvements

Version 4.51

Fixed: when Microsoft Security Essentials real-time protection is on, Macro Recorder started too long
Performance optimizations
Correct shortcut displaying on the playback-bar

Version 4.5

New command - "Clear Clipboard"
Commenting your macros (new command type = "comment")
Fixed displaying the "Copy file" commands in the list

Version 4.41

Fixed nested-IF processing in a macro

Version 4.4

New commands: If Process Exists and Wait for process to start/stop
Handy feature to hide the main window, when picking a color for the "IF Pixel Color Equals" command

Version 4.34

The "If Window Exists" command now allows working with dialog windows and messageboxes
New command - "Exit Loop"

Version 4.33

Improved "recent files" engine
Fixed load error on some machines when opening the 1st macro
Performance improvements

Version 4.32

Fixed error "424 object required" when opening macros

Version 4.3

Mouse coordinates tracked on mouse-command form
New command - "If pixel color equals"
Recent files list
"If clipboard contains" (along with "equals")
"If current iteration" works for inner loops now

Version 4.24

Precise timing when recording a macro
"File copy" command added
Improved interface
Minor bug fixes

Version 4.23

Block input during playback
Improved performance
New statement "Clipboard NOT equals"
Nice exe-file icon
Configurable "abort playback" hotkey for the macro launcher application

Version 4.22

Middle Mouse button recording
Horizontal Wheel recording
"Click at current mouse position" mouse command option
Performance improvements

Version 4.2

"Delete file" command
Wildcards in the "Close window" command
Returning the mouse to the original position after playback is finished
Improved launcher UI

Version 4.1

Improved "IF current iteration equals" when used inside nested loops

Version 4.0

New command "dial a connection"
Improved repeater-command
Minor GUI improvements
Optional pause macro playback, when a user moves a mouse

Version 3.86

Fixed recording Shift+Arrow keystrokes under Vista
Switch to windows command now understands * and ? wildcards
improved performance

Version 3.85

Macro Recorder's "WAIT FOR WINDOW" and "IF WINDOWS EXISTS" commands now accept asterisks and question marks as wildcards in window names
New menu command - "Edit macro in Notepad"
Improved window positioning

Version 3.83

Repeat command option to ask the user, how many times to repeat
New command "IF CURRENT ITERATION EQUALS"
Fixed context-menu positioning on the list of macro commands
Improved mouse recording engine

Version 3.82

Fixed incorrect loading of "WAIT FOR WINDOW" macros
Mouse macro editor can now get current mouse coordinates (easier editing)
Crashing when entering an empty serial number
more minor improvements

Version 3.8

Redesigned timing architecture
Save window position
Correct GOTO-statement processing in exe-compiler
Fixed settings-dialog

Version 3.74

"ELSE" statement
"If Windows exists" statement
"Play To cursor" feature
many general improvements

Version 3.7

"\n" fix in the "Type Text" macro command
right-left mouse recorder clicks fixed
Check for previous instance of Macro Recorder
AutoStart option for Macro Recorder Hotkey Launcher
"Bulk Edit Timeouts" feature
Improved GUI under Vista

Version 3.66

Fixed record/replay macros of the "Shift+arrow" key combination (when selecting text)

Version 3.64

Fixed small error when loading a saved macro with "IF CLIPBOARD EQUALS" conditional statement
Added "Assign Macro to Hotkey" menu item

Version 3.63

Vista support
"REPEAT X TIMES" statement
Hotkey Launcher minor errors fixed
"Now Playing" box does not hide the top-positioned taskbar
Window startup position
Longer trial period

Version 3.61

Added "Delay" command
Many minor improvements throughout the program

Version 3.6

New strongly improved exe-compiler generates smaller optimized executables
New IF conditional statement - "IF clipboard text equals"

Version 3.58

Fixed high CPU load when waiting for a window to appear
Window operations are now available for dialog and tool windows also
Macros message-boxes are displayed above all
Switch-command restores a window if minimized
more...

Version 3.57

Improved text-typing command
Fixed the error when a mouse-disabled keystroke macro recording is aborted with a button-click
"Launch a file" command improved

Version 3.56

Fixed the small disappointing bug in the EXE-compiler, which stealthily seeped into the previous build.
Added "command-line parameters" option to the "file open" command

Version 3.54

Optimized backend operations
New "Type text" command and "system time" printing in a customizable format
Improved EXE-builder

Version 3.52

Lowered CPU load during loops and timeouts
New events are inserted after the selection - easier editing
File-import issue fixed

Version 3.5

IF / ENDIF statements support!
Interface improvements
Improved EXE-compiler
Optimized performance

Version 3.48

Aborting a macro during a "wait for user" command resulted in malfunction
Multiline message-boxes fixed
Performance issues

Version 3.47

Dependency on Microsoft Scripting Runtime eliminated

Version 3.46

Added "WAIT FOR USER INPUT" command
Fixed 100% CPU load during pause
Improved interface

Version 3.45

Introducing SMART-Rec macro recording technology: record and replay your mouse moves in an intelligent way
"Move Up/Down" feature: rearrange your commands
EXE-builder is now available to be tested in the trial version
All settings are unblocked in the trial version

Version 3.4

Added global ("system-wide") keyboard-shortcuts for Record, Play/Pause/Resume actions
Added "File - New" menu item
Improved Macro Recorder manual/tutorial
and more...

Version 3.3

Hotkey Macro Launcher tool included in the package: binding macros to hotkeys
General file I/O improvements

Version 3.22

Significantly improved playback performance
Fixed malfunctioning when a paused macro is being aborted

Version 3.2

"Switch to a window" command added
"Replay/close" buttons are displayed after playback
The current macro file name is displayed in Macro Recorder's title bar
"Stop recording" button click is not recorded any more

Version 3.18

Fixed keystroke crash after intensive activity on Win XP SP2
Main menu keyboard navigation improved

Version 3.17

Mouse wheel support in mouse recorder
New custom commands

Version 3.15

Added feature to hide the blue "playing macro..." box.
Improved GUI (XP-themes) for the Settings dialog

Version 3.12

Added "Ignore timeouts" playback option
Other macro-playback improvements

Version 3.1

Fixed overflow crash when recording a macro with very large timeouts

Version 3.0

Fully reworked user interface of Macro Recorder (Office-2003 style)
Shutdown/reboot/logoff command added
Fixed a minor bug when a single-command macro is being aborted

Version 2.55

Added "GOTO", "LABEL" and more statements
Checking if a window exists
"Launch website", "Message box" and more commands
Tons of minor improvements

Version 2.51

"Spy mode" option: the red "recording" label is not shown when recording a macro

Version 2.5

All new improved macro-recording/playback engine

Version 2.4

Text import feature added
Resizable window
Merging recorded macros files
Optimized EXE-files compiler
Updated Macro Recorder manual (scheduling tutorial)

Version 2.31

Auto-shutdown feature added: when a macro is opened from windows-shell or command prompt, Macro Recorder can shut down itself after playback if finished

Version 2.3

GUI improvements
EXE-file export: compiling a recorded macro to a standalone program
Separate keyboard and mouse recording option

Version 2.2

Auto-play option: automatically playing macros opened from command prompt
Recording GUI bug fixed
Updated Macro Recorder manual

Version 2.0

Advanced macro editor added
Context menu added, clipboard support
Manually adding macro-commands to the list
Looping playback
Windows-shell intergation and scheduling macro recorder files