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    Recording a Macro?

    I want to record a macro to do certain steps. Where is the option to records a macro.?

    Eric

    #2
    Re: Recording a Macro?

    Originally posted by flucky07 View Post
    I want to record a macro to do certain steps. Where is the option to records a macro.?

    Eric
    Ever consider looking in the webhelp index for Macro?
    There is no native macro capability in Alpha.
    There can be only one.

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      #3
      Re: Recording a Macro?

      you can record your key stokes if that's what you mean.

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        #4
        Re: Recording a Macro?

        Originally posted by G Gabriel View Post
        you can record your key stokes if that's what you mean.
        Yes but how? I cant recreate structure?

        Eric

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          #5
          Re: Recording a Macro?

          Hey Eric,

          Go to the control panel. View, then Script Record Window.

          Is that what you are looking for?

          Regards

          Ed

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            #6
            Re: Recording a Macro?

            Yes but how?
            If you are not an xbasic enthusiast, go to Action Script, System send keys.

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              Re: Recording a Macro?

              Originally posted by G Gabriel View Post
              If you are not an xbasic enthusiast, go to Action Script, System send keys.
              Sending Keys (SYS_SEND_KEYS() and similar is not a macro, it is just keyboard substitution, meaning it does not (can not) have decisional capabilities or other programming constructs within the macro. Compare that to the Alpha 4 or Lotus 1/2/3/ or Excel macros which are true macros. And sending keys is about the worst technique you can ever do in an asynchronous evnvironment, which Alpha 5 is. I have only required it in 1 case (in A5V5) to load an A5 application from another application, which now has a proper A5 method that will do the same thing.

              To record various actions, go to menu View, Script Recorder Window, then enable Record Script checkbox as needed to record the code.

              Some things are recorded at a high level (e.g. items on the operations tab of the control panel) and will be recorded that way. To get their internal code, in general, right click on the object and choose View XBasic, then copy as needed,
              Regards,

              Ira J. Perlow
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                #8
                Re: Recording a Macro?

                Ira:
                I am not advocatng it, nor do I use it.

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                  Re: Recording a Macro?

                  I do use send keys(sparingly). I have and do use script recorder and then take that script to change it around to suit the purposes. It works great that way.

                  Dave
                  Dave Mason
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                    Re: Recording a Macro?

                    Originally posted by csda1 View Post
                    Some things are recorded at a high level (e.g. items on the operations tab of the control panel) and will be recorded that way. To get their internal code, in general, right click on the object and choose View XBasic, then copy as needed,
                    Is this how you would get into the native delete command to remove the 'are you sure' catch dialog? This was discussed recently and I was looking for it and haven't yet found it.
                    Mike W
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                      #11
                      Re: Recording a Macro?

                      Mike,

                      Originally posted by Mike Wilson View Post
                      Is this how you would get into the native delete command to remove the 'are you sure' catch dialog? This was discussed recently and I was looking for it and haven't yet found it.
                      It depend's where the dialog prompt is. If it's in the operation's XBasic code, then yes. If not, you need to bypass a prompt by either making sure it never can happen (e.g. a parameter prompt when not given), set a silent option of the function, or code it in more primitive XBasic functions that don't have a prompt.
                      Regards,

                      Ira J. Perlow
                      Computer Systems Design


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                        Re: Recording a Macro?

                        Ira,
                        The delete warning I'm specifically thinking about is part of topparent.delete_record(). I swear I just read something on this with someone who had several Xbasic scripted prompts in his script prior to this command and wanted to disable the warning within this command (too redundant). I can't find it (Arg!). It was probably you that gave the answer.
                        Mike W
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                          #13
                          Re: Recording a Macro?

                          Mike,

                          This is a case 3 example of coding it in simpler primitives, as in
                          tbl=topparent.Table_Get()
                          tbl.change_begin(.t.)
                          tbl.delete()
                          tbl.change_end(.t.)
                          topparent.Refresh_Layout()
                          Regards,

                          Ira J. Perlow
                          Computer Systems Design


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                            Re: Recording a Macro?

                            Ira,
                            By default (meaning I didn't know how to get to the functions coding), what you wrote is where I ended up. So, that's a simple primitive. Tends to be the level I work mostly in, except I have to add the term verbose because at this stage of rungs-up-the-ladder, the efficiency of my coding is better describe as verbose simple primitive. Working on efficiency every moment (wish I could get to the meeting...)
                            Mike W
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