Does anyone know how to imitate arev keyboard macro functionality in OI? ie: Press a particular key combination and have text piped into a window. What I want to do is convert a routine I wrote in Arev that automatically writes chunks of code after asking the programmer for a a few parameters. This saves a lot of time. Instead of typing in something like OPEN FILE TO F.HANDLE ELSE PANIC, you would press a key, it would ask for the filename and and pump in the syntax using the first letter of the file name as the start of the handle etc.

Loop, readnext etc is a good example.

Any Ideas, alternative suggestions etc are welcome.

Paul,

So you want to be within the System Editor and launch a macro? The only way I know how to do this is to use a third-party macro/batch utility like Winbatch. We use hDC's Power Launcher but this has long ago stopped being published.

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Where's the message Don replied to?

- Nosy -

Since there was no subject line to his posting, there was nothing for the link to attach itself to. To get to the original posting, click here.

Sorry about that. I slipped up and forgot to put in the subject title. Of course you realise this when its too late and you see a list with your name and no subject.. duh..

It would be nice if you were forced to put in a subject title…

Don,

Have you got any experience with that WinBatch program you mentioned? I expect to write a lot of code in the following months, so like Paul I'd like to have something that e.g can key/paste in the skeletons of if, case and loop sentences. I've just downloaded WinBatch, but its abilities cover so much more than I need. I'd just like that needle, not the whole haystack.

- Oystein -

Oystein,

No, for the same reason you mentioned I never delved into WinBatch but AFAIK it's the only remaining utility of its kind that has any potential of continued future development. So if I had to do it all over again this is where I would go.

The other utility I mentioned was nice because it had a macro recording feature (like in AREV) that wrote the script for me. Then all I need to do was place this script in a Basic+ program in a UTILITY("RUNWIN") command against the program that executes the script. Because the program runs invisible it works very seamlessly. This is, by the way, how we were able to get OI to communicate and control various third-party programs before we discovered more advanced techniques.

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