Main Program Settings

Main program settings dialog box is available through ôTools/Optionsö menu item from the main window or from tray menu.

General Tab

• All macros list - hot key that brings up window with list of all macros.
• Enable/Disable triggers - hot key to enable/disable macro triggers.
• Start / stop macro recording - hot key to start macro recording.
• Show / hide main window - hot key to show or hide main window.
• Play sound when executing macro - if checked, defined sound (.wav file) is played when macro is started.  A dialog box to define sound file is shown when the unchecked option is changed to checked.
• Speed of macro keystrokes sending - this option allows user to control how fast the program sends keystrokes when playing macro back.  This option can be programmatically changed within each macro using <faston> and <fastoff> commands (<faston> changes the speed to ôhighestö and <fastoff> to ôslowö). 
• Do not show macro execution progress window - if checked, the macro execution progress window is not showing.
• Log macro execution - if enabled, the start & stop macro execution time is added to the log.txt file.  The file is available from the "View/Show Log File" main menu item.
• Automatically report errors during macro execution - if this option is checked and an error appears during macro execution (some command, for example "copy file" fails) an error window is shown to user immediately.  This option can be overwritten by using <me_error_nodisplay> and <me_error_display> commands in macro.
• Use list box to select from macros with the same trigger - It is possible to define macros with the same trigger.  When the trigger fires and this option is checked, a list box with the macros with the trigger fired is shown to select required macro to run.  If this option is unchecked, a menu instead of list box is shown.
• Always start minimized to tray - if checked, the program always starts minimized to the Taskbar tray icon.  Otherwise the program starts in the same position as it was before exiting.
• Start automatically on Windows Startup - if checked the programs automatically loads on Windows startup.
• Save settings on exit - if checked, all the changes made in settings, window position, etc. is saved on the programs exit.
• Show tips - if checked, tips are showing during working with the program.
• Auto-save - if checked, the changes made to macro file are automatically saved every couple minutes.  In addition, all changes are automatically saved on program shutdown (without showing "Do you want to save..." dialog box to user).
• Automatically detect new version available - if this option is enabled, the program connects to its home page (if the user is connected to Internet) and detects weather a new version is available.
• Do not show "Macro execution stopped" message... - It is possible to stop (break) macro execution using "Shift+Esc" hotkey.  By default, if the macro is stopped this way, a message is shown to user.  This option allows to disable the message.
• Locate macro execution error if a macro command fails - if a macro command fails during macro execution and this option is checked, the program automatically navigates to macro that failed and highlights the command that failed.  This simplifies error detection and allows faster macro development.

Shared macro file options:

• Allow shared items - if checked, multiple users on network can share macros saved in the file specified in "shared file path" field.
• Shared file path û full path to the shared macros file.
• Reload when change is detected - if a change in the shared macro file is detected, the macro file is automatically reloaded so that users always have the most recent version of the shared macros.
• Confirm reloading - if checked, the user is asked (using a message box) to confirm shared macro file reloading.
  
  For more information regarding sharing macros see Shared macros topic.

Keyboard Tab

• Expand shortcut after pressing - check the keys you want to use to start text shortcut expansion.  (The keys that need to be hit after a text shortcut is typed - see macro triggersID_TUTORIAL_TRIGGER.)
• Do not delete expand key - if checked the expand key is not deleted. 
• Non-text shortcut characters - the characters listed here cannot be part of text shortcut.  This means that text shortcut recognition is restarted when such character is typed.   Some keys causes this automatically (for example, page up, page down, tab, arrow keys, enter, etc.) but additional characters can be specified here. 
  For example, we have "sct" text shortcut.  When typing "(sct " the "sct" shortcut is correctly expanded only if the "(" character is listed in "non-text shortcut characters" field.

Mouse Tab

• Automatically activate ... - if checked, the program will automatically activate window with the mouse cursor (so that it is not necessary to click on it to activate it).
• Auto scrolling - if checked, special auto scrolling feature is enabled.  To scroll larger documents using this feature follow this:
  1. Within the document, press right (middle) mouse button and hold it down.
  2. Move the mouse cursor up/down within the document while still holding the mouse button down.  The document should scroll.
  3. Release the mouse button when you want to stop the scrolling.
  This feature will make scrolling documents easier even if you do not have a wheel mouse.
• Show mouse cursor position - if checked, small window displaying the actual mouse cursor position is shown.  The window displays the mouse coordinate either in absolute screen coordinates or in coordinates relative to the currently active window.

 Macro Toolbars Tab

• Auto hide - if enabled, the toolbar is hidden if the mouse cursor is out of the toolbar area.  If the toolbar is not docked it is hidden to the toolbar edge that is closest to a screen edge.  It means that it can be hidden to any of the top, right, bottom or left edge depending on the toolbar position on the screen.
• Disabled (main toolbar) - when checked, the main toolbar is not showing.
• Always on top - if enabled, the toolbar is top most window that is never overlapped by other windows.
• Dock - if checked, the toolbar is "docked" on a selected screen's edge.
• Icon sizes - allows selecting between small and large icons both for toolbar and submenus.
• Show tab text - if checked, the tab name is displayed within each tab.
• Show tab icon - if checked, the tab icon is displayed within each tab.
• Disable tabs - if checked, tabs are hidden and the toolbar is smaller.
• Tabs position - tabs can be positioned on top, left, right or bottom site of the toolbar.  Note that on old Win95 systems it is possible that only "top" position will work properly.
• Auto-open/auto-close submenu - if checked, it is not necessary to click on submenu button in order to open submenu.  Also, if the mouse cursor is not over the submenu then it is closed automatically without necessity to click on desktop or other application.
• Disable toolbars - if checked, the main toolbar is disabled (not available) as well as all other floating toolbars.