Anasoft Autowork User's Guide

5.3 Editing the Variables of a Macro Contents 5.4.1 Editing Macro Instructions in the VME

5.4 Editing the Instructions of a Macro

Instructions are the major part for a macro. VME (Visual Macro Editor) is the place to manage all you instructions. You can also edit scripts directly in some plain text editor if you want, but at last you may find VME is more convenient.

5.4.1 Instructions Currently Supported by Autowork

5.4.2 Index for All Autowork Instructions

5.4.1 Instructions Currently Supported by Autowork
Though not all instructions can be used at this time, you can use the basic, maybe also the most important instruction type now. More advanced features will be implemented step by step in future editions. The instruction types you can use now include:

Keyboard and Text Instructions

* Keyboard Actions: Key stroke, pressing or releasing a key

* Text Input: input a block of text at a time

Mouse Instructions

* Mouse actions - mouse move, mouse button press, release, click, double click, mouse wheel rotation, and some other mouse actions.

System Operation Instructions

* Executing Command line commands, such as running program, opening file or folder, visiting web resources etc.

* Sleep: Sleep means time interval between two instructions. It is the key to control the pace (the running speed) of your macro.

Control Instructions

* Repeat Control: You can repeat group of instructions by Repeat Start / Repeat End pairs for specified repeat count. The repeat pairs can appear in any place of your instruction stream. You can use them for multiple times or one pair within another.

Though more advanced instructions haven't been implemented at this version. Current version of Autowork has already been very powerful, because all major basic elements to make a great macro have been included in a fine manner in this version.

5.4.2 Index for All Autowork Instructions

5.4.1 Editing Macro Instructions in the VME