Getting familiar with Macro Manager
The Macro Manager is a tool for administering macros, and controlling Macro Service. You utilize it to do the following:
- Creating a new macro.
- Importing an existing script file as a managed macro.
- Adding or removing the triggers from a macro
- Scheduling a macro
- Changing the properties of a macro
- Setting the global system options
- Suspending/resuming Macro Service
The work area of Macro Manager activates when Macro Manager is started. The work area consists of the Menu bar, the Folder Panel, the Macro list tab, the Status panel and a systray icon.
Systray Icon
A systray icon will be placed when Macro Manager starts, you can click the icon to open the main window of Macro Manager if the window is invisible; you can also right-click the icon to popup a menu to access the common functions of Macro Manager.
Folder Panel
The Folder Panel is on the left of the main screen, it provides you with a access for browsing the macro list, hotkeys list, scheduled and triggered macro list.
Macro list
The Macro list consists of a tool bar and a grid which lists all of the managed macros. You are convenient to manipulate macros in the list, such as playing a macro, removing a macro, changing the properties of a macro, etc. Right-click on the selected macro, a context menu will popup for the most common action on the selected macro.
Status window
The status window is placed for displaying the logs and a macro's summary, you use it to learn the current state of the macro manager and macro service, the actions to a macro, all of the properties on a macro and etc.
Manager log
The panel will show all the logs from Macro Manager, the log contains events logged by Macro Manager. For example, a log record will be added when you suspend or resume the Macro Service, Macro Manager also record a message in the log when you play a macro.
Note: You might turn the manager logging off, for more information, please see General Options.
Service log
The panel will show the logs about Macro Service, the service log contains all the communication message between
the service with other programs, and the records that indicates a macro to be launched by
scheduler or trigger.
Playback log
Playback log contains the message during the macro playback, such as when the macro was launched, what actions were performed, and the error and warning occurred during playback.
Note: If a macro has been configured to play without logging, the playback log will be empty. For more information about this, please see Advance Property
Summary
Show all of the properties about the selected macro, such as name, description, hot-key, last play and so on. That is more intuitive to the grid.
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