Alexis

Awesome, works great! Those Repeat Commands are powerful. Thank You

1000 Thanks ;-)

Sorry i´m occupying the forum with my questions. At least the last 4 were mine. ;-) I would like to play WAV-Files randomly which are located in a folder. I can use a workaround to create Random Numbers between 1 an 100, rename the soundfiles accordingly (EG "1.wav") and use a string variable to pick those files. But i don´t want to rename the soundfiles. Is this possible? Maybe with one of those sophisticated "REPEAT WITH FOLDER" -Commands? Thanks a lot once more!!! Alexandra P.S.: I sometimes get 0 when Creating Random Integer Var. between 1 and 12 (set to a random value). How come?

Is it possible to display a textbox longer than the macro is running or is this the maxium time which just can be shortened by the "stay on screen for" option. Thanks Alexandra

Is there any possibilty to count the number of files which are located in one specific folder and make an integer variable of it? Thank you very much!

What does "IE" stand for? Sorry i´m not an native english speaker! To your example: Yes i want B to replace A. I don´t want to use a macro doing that. I simply want to open it via the file-menu. Any idea how to do that? By the way. A and B are not identical. They just share the same name! Wait! I accidently disabled the advanced file prompt (Preferences/General/Dialogs). Let me check that. Alexandra

Hi Cory, Sorry i mistyped that. With the actual one i mean the one which is loaded. This is the correct sentence: "Now you want to load that file and replace the actual one with that other file which has the same name as the loaded mex-file." The "Load New Macro File with the Close All Open option" does not work because it displays the message "The specified file is already open." So, as workaround Nr. 3 you could rename the file. In MEX 3.X i just loaded the file and replaced the actual one.

This was easy in MEX 3.X. Suppose you made a backup of your MEX File (Name.mex) on a different place on the harddisc. You just copied the original one. Now you want to load that file and replace the actual one which has the same name. I can´t open it because MEX Pro thinks it´s the same. Reopen shows no effects. E.g. floating menus are not actualising. At the moment i use one of those workarounds. - Renaming the MEX Files. - Restarting Mex Pro. Any way to simply load it like in MEX 3.X? Thank you Alexandra

Sorry, i don´t get this. I don´t have long commands. The macro just stucked. Just like in Mex 3.x. But there i was able to abort it. But not anymore. Reassigning the hotkey does not work for me. So do you have to terminate MEX PRO like me or what do you do? What means "abort will not occur until the next command". I mean i don´t have long Delay commands or stuff like this. Right clicking forrest never had any effect! Thank you Alexandra

I often have a macro running (Running Man Icon displayed in Tray) and just can´t stop it. In MEX 3.X i simply rightclicked the icon. Not this nor the abortion hotkeys seem to work in MEX Pro!!! Termination and Restarting is the only option for me. Can anybody confirm this? What can i do? Thank You Alexandra

I guess the most important one and the one which is missing in the board editor is ;-) (one eye blinking) I use it often to indicate irony or humor and it´s the one i see the most. But back to the topic: There are some posts on the MEX3 forum about repetive macros while keys holding down. As i remember an admin/insight guy (was it Kevin?) answered that due to the structure of MEX3 this is principially not possibe. Now they came up with this distinction between Key Press and Key Release. But as i know still nobody so far coded an succesful repetition macro, right? Though i think MEX Pro is capable of that those different activation options don´t work reliable yet. So we must hope for an update?!? Alexandra

Yes, i tested a little bit more. Activation by press works! Well, i definitely would like to include Text Type commands. Why shouldn´t that be allowed? Is there a technical reason? (Keyboardinterface?) The purpose of Point 2 is to achieve a macro- (key-) repetition as long the hotkey is pressed (like cursor keys). This is what this thread (keyrepetition) is about. Although we did not manage to realize it yet Cory (i miss him) made a very good point: Macro A: Repetition Macro activated by press Macro B: Macro A Stopper activated by release (Same hotkey!) I and i believe many other users would find it very useful to have the possibility to realize this. I could use this for hundred of things. You can even think of accelerating the macro over the time being pressed. Thank you! Alexandra

Skip this, if you are not Cory !! Dear Cory, i am so sad you got this completely wrong! Didn´t you see my smiley? Maybe i picked the wrong one. I did not find the one with the one eye closed! I know it´s sometimes dangerous to use irony and humor on the board but where would be the fun without it? Do you know, that your Nick (Cory) is maybe the only name here i know and remember. I don´t know in which of my posts you didn´t inserted a helpful hint. So often i was only the taker and you were the giver! I think i posted my sample macros. It was just (TEXT TYPE A/B). Did you think of uploading this single commandline? I know that i am here most of the time to ask. But i always do it in a way that other users can contribute. In my post "Macro Express Pro - After one week, Great things and stuff i miss!" i suggested 10 ideas for improvement. Insulting was absolutly not my intention. I would be very happy if you could accept my apologize and i would hear from you in another post. Alexandra

Dear Paul, thank your very much for trying to confirm my problem! I tried the same (displaying dialog boxes). Same Hotkey but two macros (one press, one release activated) Eventually i managed to run the press Macro on press. The release macro repeated most of the time endlessly. Even worse, MEX Pro crashed most of the time (I did sent some of the crash reports to Insight) What should i say? The great idea to distinguish between Key down / up is not yet ready to use? Alexandra

Well Cory then i invite you to join the Trial-Club and write some code! My 2 example macros consist of just one commandline each (TEXT TYPE A/B). I would be pleased to get some confirmation on this behaviour. EVERYBODY: Does anybody ever managed to program a macro- (key-) repetiton while and only while a hotkey is pressed down ?????? Thank you Alexandra

Thanks Cory, did you try that out? I couldn´t be farer from that. I´m not able to activate any macro by key press. For example: I assign two macros ( A & B ) to the same Hotkey. One types "A" the other one "B". Macro A is Press- Macro B ist Release activated. I should see "AB" after typing the hotkey, no? There only "B"´s. If i hold the hotkey for a moment many B´s are typed after Releasing. I have no idea! Can you confirm this? As long MEX Pro is nonreactive to key presses your idea won´t work also. I wonder why the made the distinction (Press-Release). Once, i think i managed to see a running man while pressing down a hotkey. But it didn´t do anything. I have the feeling i switched to early to MEX Pro. Often the process "macedit.exe" is consuming 50% of my cpu, without performing or editing a macro. I also find it difficult to stop a macro with right-click on running man icon. Alexandra

I always missed the option to repeat a macro while the hotkey is pressed. (like cursor keys are repeated) Maybe in MEX Pro this becomes now possible. When it comes to activating MEX Pro allows to distinguish between a Hotkey pressed or released. You can think of two macros: Macro A (activated by pressing down Hotkey) - Repeat Action for 100 Times. Macro B (activated by releasing same Hotkey) - Stopping Macro A. Well, it doesn´t work that way. First of all, while the running man appears on the key press the macro instead is not performed. With Macro B i have a different problem. How do i stop another macro? I could disable it but i need it next time. Any ideas? Thank you! Alexandra

Hi everybody, i just want to share my experience after upgrading to MEX Pro for one week. It´s a big improvement. I love the new look, the goto Label - Feature, the submenus and the Poly- Scripteditor. Thanks everybody. Many things i missed have been implemented. Nevertheless here are some things you may still find considerable for an update. - The MEX Windows (Explorer, Script Editor) are loosing focus after several operations (Saving Ctrl + L) which is kind of annoying. - I cannot find the option to place a text box display relative to a specific or current window. - The Script Editor closes completely after closing the last tab. - While building floating menus it would be nice to add the macro of the left column in the Menu (right) by double clicking. - A incremental search by pressing characters in the left column would also be useful there. - Selfdefinable Command folders are a great idea. But i which i would have those and the snippets folder in the "All Commands"-View as they were faster accessable there. - I learned MEX by pressing the Help Buttons accessable from every command. I miss that option. - The seperator icon does not work for horizontol floating menus. Instead it creates a line break. - In MEX 3.X i had keycommands for the scripteditor. I miss those for inserting, dislocating commandlines or macros in the menubuilder. - For the keycommands which are implemented it would be good to show them while hovering above the button. I have the feeling that MEX Pro executes Macros quicker and that i have to add or extend pauses where necessary. Can anybody confirm this? Thank you. Keep up the good work. Alexandra

True, Terry i mistyped this only in the post but not in the command line. It´s "..../AName of Macro" of course. Greetings Alexandra

Thank you Terry, nice workaround but not what i want. Playable Macros (.mxe) work almost always. I prefer using commandlines instead because than i can easily modify the macro normally without the need to export it again and make a new link to the .mxe-file. I found out that my problem has nothing to do with strokeIt. I get the same strange behaveior if i call the macro via the run box or by rightclicking on the macro in the macro explorer. While i was typing this MEX chrashed. Well i´m glad it did cause after restarting MEX reacts normally and i can call any macros in my library with a move of my mouse. OH HAPPY DAY! I hope i´m not stressing any board rules here, but i think it is not wrong to exchange her some experiences of using our wonderful tool MEX. I personally would love to know how you or other users make the most of Macro Express. Quite frankly i think due to the complexity of MEX most users use it not half up it´s potential. Well, maybe the members of this forum do. Thank you. Alexandra

I have a problem with a simple Macro called „Do-List Activator“. It simply activates a word-document called Do-List with the single command „Activate Window: “Do-List.doc – Microsoft Word“ It works perfectly, but if i want to call that macro via Commandline ("c:\program files\Macro Express3\MeProc.exe" /A Do-List Activator) something strange happens. The word document gets not activated. But in the taskbar the Microsoft-Word button gets orange and in the list of word documents this documentname ist highlighted orange too. What´s wrong. By the way i use mouse gestures (StrokeIt) to call that macro. I recommend that tool very much. Other macros called by strokeIt perform normally. Thank You Alexandra

Thank you Terry. It closed properly. (no process in taskmanager). I just reinstalled it. It works fine again. Thank you Alexandra

Usally i open the editor by right clicking the icon in the tray. Actually i know no other way to open it. Now, when i do this the option disappeared from the menu. It now starts with "Suspend Macro Express" and ends with "Terminante Macro Express". Where has it gone? What can i do? Thank you very much. Alexandra

Well, i don´t expected it. I hoped it would work. I have not much experience in commandlines or valid link formats. Why don´t you tell us what you know? Imagine that i do know nothing but i am eager to learn. What can i do? Thanks. Alexandra

Well Terry, the other parameters behind the /A specify the macro to trigger. It´s simply the name of the macro. My line executed in Start or as a cmd works but not as a word link. Notice the difference between MacExp.exe and MeProc.exe. Alexandra