I know something about software engineering. I can write and run a program. But I would like to know something about MACROS. I don't mean the ASSEMBLY language kind. I am talking about those programs that you can use perform repetitions actions on another program. I am talking about those programs that you can use to record a series of events on your computer, like, mouse movements and button clicks and then you can play them back. Some of them are elaborate enough to run only on a paricular app that you designate. I wrote one of sorts once. It was a program that launched an Excel sessions and then used the dynamic data exchage pipe of some kind to feed the excell session script commands. It worked. But something on the level of the operating system, I imagine, is a whole different story. How does someone go about writing a "macro"?
They are different for each program. Office and OpenOffice use a form of BASIC. Others may use something else like javascript, since it's multi-platform. Chances are it's something that any computer and process and be done without a bunch of extra tools.