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Macro shortcut on destop
Dec 27th, 2012 at 12:35am
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Just Upgraded to win8 and unable to setup macro shortcut on desktop. any help will be appreciated.
  
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Re: Macro shortcut on destop
Reply #1 - Dec 27th, 2012 at 2:14pm
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Hello,

What do you have typed in the target of the Icon?
Are you getting any error messages when clicking on the icon?

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Reply #2 - Dec 27th, 2012 at 3:41pm
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Contrary to the claim that Win 8 is just Win 7 with the Modern interface, with touchscreen support and without the Media Center, the fact is there are a lot of differences.  Microsoft went absolutely crazy with security. For instance, users of AutoHotKey have found they can't feed keystrokes to a program (pretty much makes AutoHotKey useless! ...). A lot of things that used to work fine, such as editing a text file under C:\Program Files\ now require opening something as Administrator and clicking through several permission boxes.
  
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Reply #3 - Dec 29th, 2012 at 10:15am
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Hi, sorry for the late reply. I input the target same as before and the error message is "wording incorrect".

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C:\data\sesame2\program\sesame.exe-macro"c:\data\sesame2\marco\wconfirm.mac"

Lucky that I keep the old machine running before migrating totally to win8.

btw, after upgraded to 2.53, after running the macro to setup several spec options, the window of spec manager stays open and have to close manually. Any way to solve this?

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Reply #4 - Dec 29th, 2012 at 3:30pm
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In your example, the command line has no spaces. Is that the case? If so, insert a space character before and after "-macro".

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C:\data\sesame2\program\sesame.exe -macro "c:\data\sesame2\marco\wconfirm.mac"



Double check that your paths are still valid under Windows 8.

The macro may be a bit different under Windows 8. That is the problem with macros in a GUI environment. Any small change to the GUI can throw off the event sequence. You may need to re-record the macro. Or, better, use a less dependent approach.

Can you be more specific as to the end-goal of this macro?
  
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Reply #5 - Dec 29th, 2012 at 11:56pm
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I've tried as advised and it starts sesame ok then ask me to choose an application file to open which does not show any .mac file.

I want these macro shortcuts to show different status of records without choosing the retrieve, sort and table spec everytime. For example, one shortcut showing records with waiting for payment and another showing waiting for delivery.

Thanks to your help.
  
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Reply #6 - Dec 30th, 2012 at 2:10am
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Hi all,

New development! I had changed the "start in:" to C:\data\sesame2\ and the macro shortcut works. Still had to close the Spec Manager manually, had tried alt f4 in the macro but not working, any ideas.

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Reply #7 - Dec 31st, 2012 at 3:16pm
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If your goal is speed and convenience, I would recommend that you use SBasic with a startup menu form instead of using macros for this. You get a lot more control over the actions and you are not subject to changes in the OS changing the event management.

I'll look into the macro support in the spec dialog to see what is up with the keystroke.
  
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Reply #8 - Jan 3rd, 2013 at 8:28pm
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Chances are the keystroke is a problem with Win 8's enhanced security.  That is what screwed up AutoHotKey. In many instances Win 8 doesn't allow programmatic insertion of keystrokes into a program, at least not unless you go through all the Run As Administrator + UAC dialogs garbage to run the program that inserts the keystrokes.
  
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Reply #9 - Jan 3rd, 2013 at 11:05pm
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Rick,

I don't think this has anything to do with 8's enhanced security, that would only affect insertion of events from one program into another. Sesame macros insert events to our GUI libraries event loop, bypassing Windows entirely.

It is more likely that Sesame is getting confused as to which window has focus and is sending the event to the main window, instead of the spec dialog window, and that might be due to changes in the event model between versions of Windows.
  
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Reply #10 - Jan 5th, 2013 at 1:25pm
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Thanks to all the help. The problem (spec manager window not closing after marco) started when I upgraded to 2.53 while using XP. I am now trying  to figure out how to create a startup menu. I used QA5 before and Sesame is way too complicate for me.
  
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Reply #11 - Jan 6th, 2013 at 5:29am
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Contact support. They can lead you through the process of building a startup menu. It isn't too difficult once you get used to the terminology.
  
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Reply #12 - Jan 10th, 2013 at 10:19pm
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ST,

Like you, I am seeing a problem when the macro addresses the spec dialog window. But, I am not seeing a problem with recording and saving macros that simply select a form, fill out the search criteria and perform the search - bypassing the spec dialog.
  
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Reply #13 - Jan 14th, 2013 at 2:11am
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I also have different sort and table spec. That's why I choose to use macros to get the table I want. Anyway, all I have to do is click the "close" button and everything is fine.
  
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