{"id":44291,"date":"2019-04-13T03:01:26","date_gmt":"2019-04-12T17:01:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/?p=44291"},"modified":"2019-04-29T22:10:07","modified_gmt":"2019-04-29T12:10:07","slug":"windows-10-steps-recorder-primer-tutorial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/windows-10-steps-recorder-primer-tutorial\/","title":{"rendered":"Windows 10 Steps Recorder Primer Tutorial"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Windows 10 Steps Recorder Primer Tutorial<\/p><\/div>\n

A long time ago I was a fan of a modestly presented “gem” of a (Microsoft) desktop application called “Windows Recorder” to record “screen goings on”, as we remembered below with WordPress Blog Posting AppleScript TextWrangler Helper Primer Tutorial<\/a>. This is “back in the day” even before Windows XP and somewhere along the Windows “line” we saw that it disappeared, and seemed to be gone for good, it seemed to us …<\/p>\n

\nI’m back, baby!<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Not sure when it came back, now called “Steps Recorder”<\/a> in Windows Accessories of Windows 10, but, who cares, because …<\/p>\n

\nI’m back, baby!<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This “Steps Recorder”, like its predecessor, has Start, Pause and Stop buttons as you’d expect, and, no doubt, can imagine how to use. There is also a File menu “Save As…” option that can create a zip file containing a *.mht<\/a> file of the Windows 10 screen (“step”) goings on.<\/p>\n

Cute, huh?<\/p>\n

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Previous relevant WordPress Blog Posting AppleScript TextWrangler Helper Primer Tutorial<\/a> is shown below.<\/p>\n

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WordPress Blog Posting AppleScript TextWrangler Helper Primer Tutorial<\/p><\/div>\n

Way back at the infancy of this blog we broached the idea that more people should learn computer coding with Are you interested in combating drudgery?<\/a> as we put to you …<\/p>\n

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In your job do you have pretty simple repetitive tasks to do?
\nAre they jobs that involve doing the same thing to every file in a directory?
\nDo you end up with RSI (no need to answer this one … just there for drama)?
\nAre you sheepish to ask your office’s IT people?
\nAre you a self-professed non-programmer, but have a tiny little nerdy molecule here or there?
\nIf your answer to the questions above is “what are you on about?” … read on.<\/p>\n

My message is, don’t ditch the command line, whether you are on Windows, Linux or Mac OS X.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

… well, today we, hopefully, get you thinking on such matters, and want to show today, if you are using a MacBook Pro laptop to do your work, or some other Mac OS X platform, please do not overlook AppleScript<\/a> ideas (last mentioned with AppleScript Surfing Primer Tutorial<\/font><\/a>) to “combat drudgery”. And where we say “combat drudgery” that includes “jobs that have an overall exciting dimension to them, but you’d love to save time on the bits that are repetitive”, for us, and maybe for you too?<\/p>\n

Today’s “procedural repetitive task” we work on, is very particular to our work here, and relates to “Cloning an Older WordPress Blog that is Built Upon and Referred to by the Current WordPress Blog Posting” (phew!), but we hope you get into AppleScript the way we did today, working in the same “dark” as any beginner (and most near beginners) do, and “nut things out” (and that is where we want you to view our slideshow<\/a> (the first two slides of which show an AppleScript Editor environment, and then take you on to see how to use that script in practice) today, for context), because though that initial effort can be a slog, you may work it to save heaps of time on other tasks with your understanding more generic and useful, as your “slog” progresses.<\/p>\n

So what can we say about AppleScript, and its relationship to our Mac OS X text editor of choice (to write our WordPress Blog Postings), TextWrangler<\/i><\/a>? Well, first off …<\/p>\n