OldMacroDonald

I had a line to set it to 1 but didn't know if it was doing anything so I removed it.

I tried to add a way to make the different texts (N1) start off with a random one on the first run of the day, rather than start at the first one every day. I made an If variable loop where if N2 is = 1 then it would change N1 to a random number, then increment N2 so that that loop won't run again. The problem is I can't get it to run at all, or it will run every time depending on if it happens before the Restore all variables line or after. Any ideas on what I'm doing wrong?

Thank you! The nesting variables may not work in ME3, based off the number of different combinations I tried. This solution worked! I just had to add a restore variable line at the start and save variables at the end

I would upgrade to the new version if I could, but this is on a work computer and it would be easier to go back to school and get a computer programming degree than to run the bureaucratic IT gauntlet of getting new software approved. Here's a screenshot and the direct code for what I was trying to do. Hopefully it's on the right track, but it's for sure not working because I don't know if I'm able to use incremental variables for the T variables. I've tried a few different versions of %T%N1%% but no success. <VARSR:07><TVAR2:01:01:text1><TVAR2:02:01:text2><TVAR2:03:01:text3><IFVAR2:2:01:1:4><IVAR2:01:01:1><ENDIF><TEXTTYPE:%T[%N[1]%]%><NMVAR:08:01:0:0000001:0:0000000>

I would like to create a macro that would paste text from a set of predefined variables that would change after every time I used the macro. For example pressing the hotkey would paste "hello" then pressing it a second time would switch to the next variable in the list "goodbye" and so on. Would I create the list through Variable Set String for each text? After that, I'm clueless as to how to get it to keep track of what has been used and switch to the next variable in the list. I tried to program it as simply as possible with my limited knowledge of ME. I set my text string (T) variables then did an if variable set N back to 1 to correspond with the number of text strings I have. It then pastes the text variable T and modifies the N by adding 1. This method doesn't work because I thought I would be able to "nest" the variables by trying to paste %T%N1%% but that's not an option it seems. Would I need to upgrade to ME6 to be able to have that functionality?

I tried to program it as simply as possible with my limited knowledge of ME. I set my text string (T) variables then did an if variable set N back to 1 to correspond with the number of text strings I have. It then pastes the text variable T and modifies the N by adding 1. This method doesn't work because I thought I would be able to "nest" the variables by trying to paste %T%N1%% but that's not an option it seems. I need to come up with a way to cycle through %T1% through %T8%

I'm using MacroExpress 3 so I should have posted my topic in that forum, sorry to all. I downloaded a trial of ME6 on another computer and I was able to paste the code into the direct editor there, though I'll need to figure out how to convert it to be compatible in ME3 since I won't be able to use the new version.

I think the problem might be that my version of Macro express might be too old? I tried to recreate the script by using the scripting editor and the text for the commands looks very different in the direct editor. I'm guessing the lines like <VARIABLE SAVE Option="\x02"/> refer to the different settings available, but option 2 on the variable save menu might be different on my version of the program. This script uses a lot of commands I've never heard of before but hopefully gives me a starting point to try to figure out what they all do so I can try to recreate it.

Awesome, thank you! Do you have that one as a macro file? I tried pasting it into the direct editor and it was changing everything to text type.

I would like to create a macro that would paste text from a set of predefined variables that would change after every time I used the macro. For example pressing the hotkey would paste "hello" then pressing it a second time would switch to the next variable in the list "goodbye" and so on. Would I create the list through Variable Set String for each text? After that, I'm clueless as to how to get it to keep track of what has been used and switch to the next variable in the list.