Screen Recorder
The screen recorder allows you to automatically 'record' actions and play them back. While recording, you may press the 'END' key to signal that you wish to stop recording.
Note, the screen recorder currently does not account for any scale settings other than 100%. If you find the playback to be incorrect, please verify that your scale is set to 100% (found in Display Settings).
| Option Name | Description |
|---|---|
| Capture Window Events | Captures when a window is activated (brought to front). If this event is detected, an Activate Window command is generated targeting the activated window's name. If disabled, a command will not be generated to activate windows even if a window is activated while recording. |
| Capture Mouse Clicks | Captures when the mouse is clicked and generates a mouse click command. If disabled, a command will not be generated to click the mouse. |
| Capture Mouse Moves | Captures when the mouse pointer is scrolled. Capture is affected by 'Mouse Move Sampling (ms) defined below. If disabled, mouse moves will not be captured. |
| Capture Keyboard Input | Captures typing and generates Send Keys commands. If sending multiple keystrokes, they will be grouped together in the same command. |
| Group Mouse Moves as Sequences | Allows the user to decide if they want to group mouse moves into sequences. Sequences are essentially a group of commands. The benefit to grouping is that typically hundreds of mouse move commands are generated, and grouping them into sequences reduces the amount of clutter in the script builder. |
| Group All as Sequence | Allows the user to decide if they want to all generated commands into a new, single sequence. Sequences are essentially a group of commands. The benefit to grouping all is a single sequence will reduce the amount of clutter in the script builder. |
| Open Windows Top Left | If checked, any windows that are activated (brought to front) will be opened at the top left corner of the screen by default. This ensures that the application will appear in the same place every time as it generates a Move Window command. The benefit is that the automation will find the window in the same place every time. |
| Track Activated Window Sizes | If checked, any windows that are activated (brought to front) will be resized to the same window size at the time of recording. The benefit is that the automation will find the window to be the same size every time. |
| Mouse Move Sampling (ms) | This value defines how often the mouse move command should be generated. Increasing the value typically means less generated commands (lower file size and command count) but the movement of the mouse will appear more erratic the higher the size (because the recorder is only capturing the mouse location every X milliseconds). For the smoothest playback, leave the value at 0. |
| Start | Starts the screen recording process. Once selected, simply perform the action and it will be recorded. |
| Stop | Stops the screen recording process. Note, if the button is clicked, that action will be recorded. |
| END Key | Stops the screen recording process. |
After you have finished recording, taskt will generate the commands into the main command builder or as multiple commands under a single sequence depending on the recording options that were selected.
If 'Group All Into Sequence' Recording option is selected, all generated commands will be put into a new Sequence.
you can edit the underlying commands within the sequence by double-clicking the sequence command.
- If 'Group All Into Sequence' is not checked then commands will be added directly to the command builder.
- If 'Group Mouse Moves As Sequence' is not checked then mouse move commands will be added directly to the command builder.