WinParrot

WinParrot is a nice tool which can record your mouse clicks and key presses, and then replay them later, allowing you to automate many common PC tasks.

You might have the program open a browser, go to a website and carry out some specific action, for instance. You could run a screen grab tool to capture an image, then do something with the resulting file. Or you might use WinParrot to set up a software demo, such as entering figures into a spread sheet, and producing a graph with the results. Setting this up is surprisingly simple. The program's portable, so there's no installation: just launch it, click Record, and start carrying out whatever action you like. Press the End key when you're done, and the recording stops: easy.

As with all macro recorders, there can be complications, particularly with mouse clicks. If you're automating Windows Calculator, say, and the Calc window launches in a different position to when the macro was recorded (which will happen if you ever move it in the future), the clicks will be sent to the wrong position and your sequence will fail.

WinParrot does far more than most free macro recorders to help you resolve problems, though. It clearly displays your sequence of steps after recording, for instance. A Debug mode helps you better understand how your macro works. You can edit steps easily, advanced users can extend their macros with a supplementary programming language, and when you're done you can even schedule macros to be run whenever you like

“WinParrot is an easy-to-use freeware that allows you to record and control any application on your PC.”

Features:

• Automate your recurring tasks.
• Load your data into your applications (Internet Explorer, Oracle Applications, SAP …)  using data from an Excel spreadsheet.
• Test the robustness of an application by simulating multiple users.
• Conduct demonstration or training of an application (by slowing the speed of play)
• Schedule tasks (schedule the execution of macros).
• Simplicity:
  WinParrot requires no installation and no administration right.
  Start recording your tasks or your entries, WinParrot will replay them immediately without programming.
• Flexibility:
  With a very simple language (very close to that of Excel) you can insert visual checkpoints, loops, conditions or data from Excel spreadsheets. You can control the tolerance of an image recognition, shapes or texts, change the speed of typing or moving the mouse.
• Performance:
  In order to avoid slowing down your computer WinParrot is optimized to use the least possible of memory and CPU.
• Reliability:
  WinParrot verifies its signature. If a virus attempts an intrusion or if WinParrot is corrupted, it will alert you.
  Once a bug is found on WinParrot, it is corrected in a few days.

 
 

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OS Requirements:

Win XP/Vista//Win 7

Rating: 4.8/5 (6 votes cast)