Macro Recorder

Record what you do once, then replay it — and fix the timing without recording again.

Recording

Press Start recording and work through the sequence at your own pace — move, click, scroll or type, then click Stop recording when done. Continuous cursor movement is compressed into point-to-point transitions automatically, which keeps the macro small and the replay smooth.

A few things are not recorded, because they cannot be replayed: the side buttons on a mouse, and keys such as Caps Lock, Num Lock, Scroll Lock, Pause, the numpad operators and media keys. A recording is capped at 20,000 steps.

Recordings stay on this PC. A macro is saved in ClickTray's own settings on this machine and is never uploaded. When you stop recording, ClickTray tells you how many steps it captured — a count, never the contents.

Steps

Once a macro exists, the Steps (N) list appears. Every step shows its time in milliseconds, counted from the start of the recording, and every mouse-move step also shows editable X and Y. Replay waits the difference between one step's time and the next. This is the difference between this and the older recorders: a pause that is 200 ms short is a number you change, not a take you shoot again — add 200 to that step's time and to every step after it, or the pause after it shrinks by the same amount.

Steps can be deleted, but not added or reordered.

Replay

• Repeat — a number from 1 up to 100,000, or type infinite. Starts at 1.
• Speed — from 0.1× to 10× the recorded pace. Starts at 1×.
• Timing jitter (ms) — varies the gaps on replay, for anything that dislikes a perfectly identical repeat. Starts at 0; up to 2,000.

Press Play to start. A finite replay stops by itself after its last repeat; with Repeat set to infinite it runs until you stop it. Play is unavailable while recording, and Start recording is unavailable during a replay. Each replay is also kept on the Runs screen.

What usually goes wrong

The replay clicks in the wrong places. Coordinates are absolute. A different resolution or a different display scaling moves every target. Re-record, or edit the move steps' X and Y in the step list.

The recording has a false start, or ends with a stray click. Delete the first steps — or the last ones, which usually include moving to and clicking Stop recording — rather than re-recording. That is what the step list is for.