LA/QM forum - Ideas

upload QM's online documentation to GitHub?

Sun, 08 Jun 2025 21:55:26 +0000

Is it possible to upload QM's online documentation (link below) to GitHub? I believe resources on GitHub are likely to be a primary source for training various AI tools

Quick Macros Online Help

This way, I can create a branch of the project and then select that repository in GitHub Copilot's chat window for more accurate Q&A.
https://github.com/copilot
e.g:
https://i.ibb.co/qMBR3Dk8/github.png

The homepage of the QM website no longer contains the previous feature-descriptive content. That content would make an excellent README file for the QM help repository on GitHub, as it allows AI to understand QM from a functional and overall perspective

QM development is stopped

Fri, 07 Oct 2022 12:01:54 +0000

Quick Macros isn't actively developed anymore. No new features will be added. Only bug fixes. Consider switching to LibreAutomate C#.

Gintaras, have you thought about using Patreon?

Sun, 31 Jan 2021 23:42:43 +0000

I, and I probably speak for many others, use QM dozens of times a day. It's the first thing I install and get running after building a new computer. QM is a must for my computer ecosystem.

That said, I feel bad paying $40, once, 15+ years ago, and then using your time, effort, and expertise in a ongoing manner. You deserve way more than what I've given you.

I generally loath software subscriptions, but I will happily give small monthly payments to support your ongoing efforts and tech support.

Please setup a Patreon account and let us pay you what you deserve!

Matt Ballinger

portable version NOT make changes to registry

Tue, 26 Nov 2019 21:34:13 +0000

I have tried making a portable version but am unable to run it from my work laptop or desktops because of changes it makes to the registry. I am unable to use it based on my corporate security policies. I am able to run other portable software that do not make changes to the registry. It seems QM does.

Anyway to change this is the new version? thanks

Font and confirm popup for toolbar context menu

Wed, 25 Sep 2019 09:06:56 +0000

When I right click on a toolbar button, I see the context menu, showing items like "Edit toolbar", "Delete button" and so on. Some times it happened to me to click by mistake "Delete button", instead if "Edit toolbar". To avoid this, it would be useful a bigger or customizable font for the toolbar context menu. Another aid would be a Confirm popup after clicking "Delete button".

Qt and QM

Thu, 11 Jul 2019 07:26:42 +0000

Hi Gintaras,
I will be working with a major application at my institution that is using the Qt cross-platform C++ framework (Qt - see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qt_(software)) for it's onscreen elemetns/widgets. I am seeing that tje standard Win32 hooks for events and window management are not likely workable - lots of 'empty' elements:

child("ExBaseViewerRenderWidgetWindow" "Qt5QWindowIcon" {window} 0x0 "" 8)

Some accessibility seems to be there - a way to pry open these widgets:
https://blog.qt.io/blog/2018/02/20/qt-5-...d-windows/

I am sure that being busy with QM3/C# for native Windows apps, this wouldn't be high on your list of priorities (!!!) but just wondering if you have encountered this environment and had any success?
I didn't see anything else on the forum.

Stuart

Support unicode variable name, function name

Fri, 14 Jun 2019 01:51:09 +0000

Hello,

In Qm2, function names and variable names do not support unicode characters. I have no way to use unicode characters to name my functions. So, I hope that QM3 can support unicode. Thanks in advance

As far as I know, C#, powershell, support function names and variable names with unicode characters.

Sometimes this is useful, such as in powershell, a button object that can be definition $button确定

Image capture format

Tue, 07 May 2019 23:08:56 +0000

At present, many softwares do not have standard controls and cannot use the functions of QM's search controls. Therefore, using image capture and recognition functions has become the preferred solution.

But I have encountered a problem, the image format of the interception is BMP. If my screen resolution is very high and the captured images are many, the generated exe file is very large.

Is it possible to save the captured image as PNG? This can reduce the size of the exe file, is this possible?

Any suggestions are welcome, thanks in advance

Optimize the output of pscmd

Sun, 05 May 2019 23:48:54 +0000

Powershell syntax is simple, has been updated to 6.x, and the function is getting stronger！It can also call libraries supported by .net

I found a situation, using the pscmd function, after executing the code, the output results always have some fixed, extra characters, very regular, is there a way to display only the results?

Maybe already have a solution, just I don't know, Thanks in advance

extra characters:

first line：
#< CLIXML

last line：
System.Management.Automation.PSCustomObjectSystem.Object1Preparing modules for first use.0-1-1Completed-1

There is also an example here：
http://www.quickmacros.com/forum/showthr...8#pid33538

Macro PS

Code:
str code=

;get-process

PsCmd code "" _s

out _s

Search in the wox search box

Mon, 22 Apr 2019 14:19:41 +0000

I just started using a software wox, http://www.wox.one , its search function is very powerful, I want to know, is it possible to search and execute QM items in the search box? I saw that there are quite a few plugins added to wox

Maybe my thoughts are very naive, but I think that using the search box to execute QM projects, such as macros, functions, and Autotext, will be more efficient. If possible, I hope that QM3 can also add this feature.

F2 to toggle back and forth

Sat, 20 Apr 2019 22:06:37 +0000

I have a suggestion

In the AutoText file, press F2 to toggle back and forth between item definitions and subfunctions

If the items is defined a lot, this feature is very friendly

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Enhanced error handling

Fri, 19 Apr 2019 02:02:46 +0000

In many RPA software, each Action has an exception handling setting, please see the image below

There is an err function in QM, but I am very much looking forward to enhancing its functionality and naming it as the new function err2.

The description of the function is as follows:

When the error occurs, the code of the line where the error occurred will be Repeat execution, retrying N times, the interval is M seconds, there are three cases:

Case 1: If the retry is successful, continue to execute downwards. Example code: err2(5 10)

Case 2: If the retry fails, an error message is displayed, and the following part of the error message shows the line number of the code in which the error occurred (for later searching in the source code)

Case 3: If the retry fails, execute the function Fun1, then there are two cases:

A. Continue to execute downwards, sample code: err2(5 10 Fun1 0)
If the retry fails, the error message is displayed, and the error message is the last The line number of the code in which the error occurred

B. Code to re-execute the line of the error, sample code: err2(5 10 Fun1 1)

Enhanced exception handling is very important, it uses the process to run more stable

The format of the function definition: err2(m n Fun flat)

Macro err2 Exception handling test

Code:
MES m.timeout=5; m.style="OCa"; m.default='C'

mes("text" "title" m)

run "$desktop$\test.txt"

err2(5 10)

;err2(5 10 Fun1 1) ;;1 Re-execute the line of code where the error occurred, after executing Fun1

;err2(5 10 Fun1 0) ;;0 After executing Fun1, continue to execute code down

;err2(0 0 Fun1 0) ;;Do not retry, only execute the function Fun1, and then continue to execute downward

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Open the link in the code

Sat, 06 Apr 2019 22:29:56 +0000

I suggest that:

1. if a URL link appears in the code, press the ctrl key and click the link to open the link, which is convenient to use, for example, here.
http://www.quickmacros.com/forum/showthr...9#pid33089

2.If it is the full path of a file, press ctrl and click to open the file.

Predefined variable for the mouse pointer

Tue, 02 Apr 2019 03:45:27 +0000

I suggest that QM can contain a predefined variable of the mouse pointer, for example: _cursor , this function is very useful in automatic text, autohotkey has this function

In the following example, if I use this variable, after the character is entered, the mouse cursor jumps to the position of the variable.

In QM2, how to use code to achieve? thanks

Autotext Autotext1
Trigger $t

Code:
/b/i/c/m

text :key F"hello {_cursor}, thank you!"

Hunspell import

Sun, 31 Mar 2019 20:35:51 +0000

I already replaced my autotext soft with QM and I am more than pleased with it. However I am missing the autocorect option (probablly alreadymispelld some words here ) and to add every single word would take years for me. So I am thinking that an option to import hunspell dictionaries as autocorect would really be great. O maybe some wizard macro that can do this.
Thank you