vTask Studio (formerly VistaTask) 7.60

vTask Studio provides advanced automation for Microsoft Windows. vTask Studio gives you the opportunity to control every aspect of your computer, such as the keyboard, mouse and web actions, without needing to write any programming code.

vTask Studio is useful in many different scenarios, such as software quality assurance testing, IT administration jobs, repetitive data entry, program installations, or unattended internet downloads.

vTask Studio offers simple Windows automation, while still providing enterprise-level features such as data-driven models, low-level Win32 API access, and image masking.

Major Features:

1. Full control of PC: Mouse, Keyboard, Menus      
2. File, Registry, and Database Access    
3. Recording and playback    
4. Checkpoints, Loops, and Subroutines    
5. User-defined variables and array lists    
6. Excel spreadsheet automation    
7. Create XLS & PDF files without Excel/Adobe    
8. Compile scripts into standalone programs    
9. Design User Interfaces with a single step    
10. Image-based mouse commands    
11. Package Scheduling and Images in EXEs    
12. Low-level Win API access, without plug-ins    
13. No requirement for .NET or any other libraries
    

Enhancements:

• New Feature:  New "IF Internet" action, which includes multiple options to check connections and verify URL links
  
• New Feature:  Added binary search capability to Count Items (under Data category)
• New Feature:  Added "Case Sensitive" option to Count Items (under Data category)
• New Feature:  New "Total Rows" and "Total Columns" options for the "EXCEL: Get Cell Format" command
• New Feature:  The Status Message command (under User Prompts) now includes width and height adjustments
• New Feature:  New statistics for using vTask (app launches, steps added, etc). Available in the Tools menu as "Show vTask Usage Stats"
• New Feature:  Title bar displays version number when no file is loaded
• New Feature:  Enhanced RGB capture cursors with precision center
• New Feature:  Added 48 x 48 quick snapshot capture
• New Feature:  New "Paste to End" in Edit menu (keyboard shortcut: Ctrl+Shift+V)
• Fix:  Major performance enhancements during variable substitution processing: up to 2x speed increase for large data manipulation
• Fix:  Minor modifications to resource string storage in the IDE program
• Fix:  Multiple corrections and speed enhancements to "Count Items" (under Data category)
• Fix:  "Count Items" now accepts binary input
• Fix:  TYPE( ) function was returning "numeric" for numbers that contained whitespace; corrected to match Excel results
• Fix:  Comment editing was misplaced if the "Comment" column was hidden in the grid
• Fix:  Additional compatibility for functions that use unquoted variables, such as =COUNTIF(%foo, {1})
• Fix:  TEXT( ) function was returning incorrect values if variable was numeric and included commas (123,456)
• Fix:  Changed "RunCount" registry setting to "stats_total_uses"
• Fix:  Minor correction to splash screen display if not disabled
• Fix:  Extra safety code to avoid step modification during runs
• Fix:  Renamed "Close Current Window" to "Close Active File" for consistency between the File and Window menus
• Fix:  Completely rewritten "Wait for Mouse" and "Wait for Typed Text" commands for compatibility with Windows 7
• Fix:  Corrections to the Unicode 8859 codepages for the Type command
• Recording Fixes:
• • Fix:  Certain punctuation keys were not saved correctly with the Recording command
  • Fix:  Recording speed increased when using Hardware method + Fast mode
  • Fix:  Enhanced accuracy for stopping a Recording during mid-payback
  • Fix:  Recordings were incorrectly resetting the Num Lock key during playback
  • Fix:  Initial (pre-recording) toggle key states were not correctly saved
  • Fix:  On Win Vista and Win 7, software-method recordings now show OS system messages during errors