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Released November 2006
TaskWare is pleased to announce WinTask Version 3.3.
IE7 is now supported, there are a lot of differences with IE6 as even the IE window names have changed. If you receive an HTML descriptor not found error when you run an existing script under IE7, record again the script part which reports an error, it will generate the correct HTML descriptor for IE7.
Those functions have been added:
SaveTargetAs, simulates a right click on an HTML element and selection of Save Target as option in the context menu
SavePictureAs, saves an HTML picture element on hard disk
SelectedHTMLItem$, returns the selected item in an HTML list/combo (not available in WinTask Lite)
ExistHTMLELement, checks if the specified HTML element exists or not (not available in WinTask Lite)
SelectedItem$, returns the selected item in a listbox/combobox (not available in WinTask Lite)
ExecExcelMacro, executes silently the specified macro in the specified Excel workbook and then saves
Three string functions have been added:
InstrRev, returns the position of a substring within a string, searching backward through the string
Replace$, finds and replaces some or all occurrences of a substring within a string
SplitIntoArray, converts a string into an array of strings.
MsgFrame and MsgFrameTitle functions have new parameters to display the message in different parts of the screen. A wizard has been added to generate easily the MsgFrame/MsgFrameTitle syntax - you can access it by double clicking the function name in Language window (click Language icon in WinTask Editor toolbar).
Scheduler (not available in WinTask Lite) can now notify by email when a scheduled task did not run successfully. A new Email notification Tab has been added for this option. If a Policy screen is displayed when the user logs, Scheduler is now able to click automatically the OK button on this screen.
The list of more recent files opened in Editor shows up to 9 scripts (instead of 4).
Released July 2006
TaskWare is pleased to announce WinTask Version 3.2.
WinTask supports now Windows 64-bits for applications running in the 32
bits kernel.
A Pause on OCR
text has been added (not available in WinTask Lite) : you can access
this new synchronization by menu Insert/Synchronization/On
OCR text (or Pause OCR text icon in the Editor toolbar). It allows
to pause until a text captured as an image is displayed at execution.
A Capture wizard has been added : you can access it by menu Start/Capture
wizard (or Capture icon in the Editor toolbar). It generates the
correct lines in the script for the Capture you want to achieve. From the
long captured string, it's possible to extract only a part of it using ExtractBetween$
function. This new function is generated automatically through the Capture
wizard or you can invoke it directly as any WinTask function.
For beginners, a Your first script wizard has been added. By default,
this wizard is loaded when you open WinTask. If you don't want anymore
this wizard, just check the checkbox Don't show this wizard anymore and
click Close button, you will come back to the usual Editor window. At any
time, you can recall the script wizard by menu Start/New
Script wizard.
Trim$ function is added, it deletes
the leading and trailing spaces from a string.
HardCopy function is added (not
available in WinTask Lite), it generates a screenshot file when invoked.
GetPageSource$ (not available
in WinTask Lite) returns in just one function the source code of the
current web page. Using it in conjunction with ExtractBetween$ new
function allows to extract any data from a web site.
CopyLink function (not available in
WinTask Lite) returns the actual link of a clickable link (simulates a
Copy shortcut on a clickable link).
We changed some keyboard shorcuts to follow the Microsoft usual ones,
so now Control+S saves a script, Control+P prints a script (but so note
that it's now Control+E to call Spy).
A Go to line option (shortcut Control+G) has been added in Edit menu,
you can go directly to the specified line in the script.
SetReadPos and EOF
functions have been fixed to support Unicode files.
Released March 2006
TaskWare is pleased to announce WinTask Version 3.1.
Functions for encrypting passwords are added in this version (Not
available in WinTask Lite). A new menu option Insert/encrypted
string opens the Password encryption dialog box. In this dialog
box, you type the password string, click Generate
button for encrypting the string and Paste
into the script button inserts within the script the encrypted
string.
Encrypted strings can be used in 3 new functions:
WriteEditEncrypted is automatically generated in Recording mode for
HTML fields seen as password type. The two other encryption functions
can be generated using their wizard (in Language window, check Show
wizard checkbox and double click the desired function).
Two functions are added to the ones existing dealing with windows
handles:
Scheduler can now be installed and configured using remote desktop
from a 2000/XP PC to a Windows 2003 Server PC. A Remote desktop with
admin rights has to be used, but a remote desktop in console mode is not
supported.
New columns are added to Scheduler main window:
-
Next run column tells when the next run will occur for the
scheduled task
-
Last run result column tells if the last run of the scheduled
task has been successfull or the error code is reported if not
successfull. The details of the errror can then be seen in Event
Viewer/Application (application WTScheduler)
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Last run column tells when was the last run for the scheduled
task
Those bugs have been corrected:
-
Capture$ in a Dos box window captures now properly the text of
the Dos window
-
Add$, Subtract$, Multiply$, Divide$ work properly even with
strings using Ucase$
In version 3.1a, HTML descriptors now support SPAN, DIV and TD tags.
OverHTMLElement function has
been added for a correct recording/replay of dynamic menus (menu options
which are displayed only when the mouse is on the main menu).
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What's new in version 3.0 (July 2005)
Main modification in version 3.0 is the support of Unicode. All the internal code has been rewritten for a Unicode internal support. From the user point of view, especially English users, nothing changes and they can work as in version 2.6; their scripts will still be created using ANSI coding unless specified when saving a script.
For users needing Unicode support due to a non-English alphabet or not-European alphabet, they can now create scripts as Unicode and so record and replay/capture non-English or not-European characters. Telling that a new script must use Unicode is done within Configure Recording dialog box.
Before writing to a Unicode file which is not yet created, you have to create it first using CreateUnicode function. CreateUnicodeFile function has been added to create an empty Unicode file ; then Write function will know that it has to write in this new file using Unicode encoding. Important modifications have been done too on IDE (our Editor TASKEDIT). They include:
- Scroll wheel mouse support
- Tabbed Editor
- Compilation window is now dockable - Play icon (or Start/Run menu option) compiles and runs immediately if no compilation error is detected. Use Start/Compile only menu option if you want to compile and use the dialog box Compilation as it was in version 2.6 (or press Ctrl+F7).
- Line numbering in a left column
- Multiple comment lines using /*.....*/
- Bookmarks insertion (Edit menu)
Other enhancements are:
- Support of Windows 2003 Server SP1.
- Proper compilation when scripts are very long.
- InputBoxSecret$, new function which prompts for a password, hidden field.
- Pause wizards allow the user to change the maximum timeout for the pause to fail. Additionally, the error message statement when the pause fails can now be modified.
- In bitmap synchronization wizard, the path used for saving bitmap file is now the last path used.
- During Preview of a bitmap file in bitmap synchronization wizard, used CPU is not any more 100 %.
- Launching Internet Explorer dialog box includes a new checkbox to check if the url to load prompts for a userid and password - it prevents the timeout error at replay because the page cannot be loaded due to a security window
- The recording of a click on an icon displayed on desktop replays now correctly.
CaptureBitmap returns an error when there is not enough disk free.
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Released September 2004
TaskWare is pleased to announce WinTask Version 2.6.
- WinTask supports now Windows 2003 Server.
New functions have been added:
- KillApp kills the specified application.
- KillAppChildren kills the specified application and its children processes.
- CheckedW returns the status of a radio button or a check box.
- FileAttr$ returns the attribute of the specified file.
- CreateExcelFile creates an Excel worksheet
Spy tool allows now truncated window names, and so a new Validate button is available for testing the specified UseWindow.
A wizard for capturing Web data in an Excel file is added when using Spy on an HTML table.
Tick units are now supported in Pause statements
Serial port statements now support COM1 to COM8 (instead of COM1 to COM4).
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Released March 2004
Dedicated to continuously improve an already great product, TaskWare is pleased to announce WinTask Version 2.52. A general error handling mechanism has been implemented through the syntax OnAction Error : at execution, if an error occurs, the routine defined in the OnAction Error is called. New system variables are available when an error triggers this routine OnAction Error : #ErrorCode, #ErrorFunction$, #ErrorMsg$, #ErrorScript$, #LastErrorLine. Not available in WinTask lite.
If a script fails at execution, after #ExecTimeout seconds, the script specified in #ScriptAfterTimeout$ is launched. This mechanism is useful for cleaning up the environment before re-running a script which has failed.
It is now possible to specify system variables values when calling TaskExec for running a script. And there is a silent mode : in case of any error, TaskExec does not display any error message, it just returns a non-zero return code.
A new system variable #HideTrayIcon hides the runtime icon in system tray if initialized to 1.
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Released October 2003
TaskWare is pleased to announce WinTask Version 2.51. Take note of these great new features: WinTask is now a COM object, you can use WinTask functions in your usual scripting language (VBScript, JavaScript, ...) - this COM object is not available in WinTask lite.
Three new functions for working with HTML Web pages have been added:
- #IgnoreHTMLCase
- Tells if case is important for HTML descriptor
- CurrentPage$
- Returns the current Web page
- ListHTMLItem$
- Retrieves the content of an item in a Web list/combo
Compiler limits have been extended in the full version (not in WinTask lite).
A WinTask toolbar is now displayed in Recording mode for easily inserting synchronizations or calling Spy tool.
You can now insert lines into the script while you are in Recording mode: nice feature when you have to call the same procedure many times.
A lot of new complex script examples are listed in a new folder, for advanced users.
Scheduler reports now the full error message when a script fails at execution. And it can now logs in even if the login screen is not displayed due to screen saver.
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