04-28-2024, 08:07 PM
Hello Everyone!
First post here ...
I really did search in the QM and LA forums for an answer to "is there a Macro Recorder for LA?" - figuring it would be among the most common questions of all. Surprise! Nothing - or, more likely - I didn't search correctly. Ah well, please excuse my Noobness.
As a long time user of AutoHotKey, I've been frustrated with how far it has fallen behind the times, making AHK progressively less usable. It's primary strength: traversing the Windows object model. It's weakness: poor to no modern browser or scripting support.
After looking at Micro$oft's Power Automate, Zapier, and many of the rest, I gave up. No justification for the costs for my own personal use, aside from their missing features that fall through the cracks. Wonderful that both QM and LA seem to recognize these as missing but also, afaict so far, deal with them very effectively. Kudos!
I learned for the first time about Quick Macros when a friend told me about it last night --- I about blew a 100 Amp fuse!
Why? Well, because I had searched for many hours over many weeks online for an Autohotkey replacement.
Huh? Neither QuickMacro nor LibreAutomate were in *any* Google results
I think you all need to do a bit more marketing! 
So after all that, my questions, if you please:
Thank you for your time and attention!
I look forward to hanging out.
cheers,
- Howard in North Florida
First post here ...
I really did search in the QM and LA forums for an answer to "is there a Macro Recorder for LA?" - figuring it would be among the most common questions of all. Surprise! Nothing - or, more likely - I didn't search correctly. Ah well, please excuse my Noobness.
As a long time user of AutoHotKey, I've been frustrated with how far it has fallen behind the times, making AHK progressively less usable. It's primary strength: traversing the Windows object model. It's weakness: poor to no modern browser or scripting support.
After looking at Micro$oft's Power Automate, Zapier, and many of the rest, I gave up. No justification for the costs for my own personal use, aside from their missing features that fall through the cracks. Wonderful that both QM and LA seem to recognize these as missing but also, afaict so far, deal with them very effectively. Kudos!
I learned for the first time about Quick Macros when a friend told me about it last night --- I about blew a 100 Amp fuse!
Why? Well, because I had searched for many hours over many weeks online for an Autohotkey replacement.
Huh? Neither QuickMacro nor LibreAutomate were in *any* Google results
I think you all need to do a bit more marketing! So after all that, my questions, if you please:
- Is there a macro recorder like QM has but for LA? (The LA editor and its descriptions seem to say no.)
- Since LA is a complete rewrite of QM, dropping QM's own language in favor of C#, I am correct in assuming that a macro recorded in QM is not easily "importable" into LA?
- Or, if it is, but with some fiddling, where is the import / conversion process documented?
- I did read that the QM and LA can run at the same time, but that there was something to the effect of "LA cannot call a QM macro" ... if not, is the reverse possible, i.e., a QM macro calls an instance of LA and passes it some parms? (I've been coding for >50 years [seriously] so writing some socket-level interop code wouldn't be a big deal. That's least possible, right? Since, at first blush, LA appears to have excellent (even complete) .NET support.)
- Speaking of, are there any issues with the latest .NET8 release? (A simple Y/N is good enough for further investigation.)
Thank you for your time and attention!
I look forward to hanging out.
cheers,
- Howard in North Florida