A number of DIALOG enhancements

Snickers · Post by **Snickers** » Thu Aug 09, 2007 2:29 pm

I think Macro Scheduler is a great program; however, it is in some serious need of a better dialog creator. The current dialog options are very limited.

If you don't have someone doing this already, I would be happy to run through this forum post collecting all Dialog suggestions to create a larger compilation of Dialog suggestions and then post it again along with my own suggestions.

Post by **Marcus Tettmar** » Thu Aug 09, 2007 2:36 pm

As far as I am aware Macro Scheduler is the ONLY product of it's kind that even HAS a dialog creator. That said, I appreciate it has some limitations, and we will make improvements as the product is developed further. But it is not meant to be a replacement for VB.

Snickers · Post by **Snickers** » Thu Aug 09, 2007 2:40 pm

mtettmar wrote:But it is not meant to be a replacement for VB.

For what I use it for, it has almost entirely replaced VB. Macro Scheduler may not have been designed to replace VB, but it certainly is powerful enough to almost do so....for my needs at least. Otherwise, I would keep using VB instead of paying $210 for macro scheduler.

I have even considered writing a script that automattically calculates my %CRLF% for my labels depending on the size of the label box and the words placed into them, to replicate a wordwrap function since macroscheduler doesn't seem to wordwrap labels.

Post by **Marcus Tettmar** » Thu Aug 09, 2007 2:44 pm

VB is good for building Windows GUIs. Macro Scheduler is better than VB for automation and controlling other applications (for non programmers anyway - advanced programmers can do everything Macro Scheduler can do in VB). If you need both, why not use both? A VB GUI can run Macro Scheduler routines.

Macro Scheduler is never likely to have a UI designer as powerful as VB's. It simply doesn't make sense. But that doesn't mean the existing dialog designer - note it is called a DIALOG designer - won't be improved.

Snickers · Post by **Snickers** » Thu Aug 09, 2007 3:20 pm

mtettmar wrote:A VB GUI can run Macro Scheduler routines.

How can I have a VB GUI run an MS routine. Would I have to write multiple .exe files and the VB GUI runs each .exe? Or is there a way to create one large MS exe and the VB GUI would somehow set a variable that MS could read and then advance to a certain subroutine?

Is it possible for the VB GUI to read the same variables as MS?