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I have a macro activated by left clicking a certain window area. But I'd also now like to activate it by right clicking the title bar anywhere. (I could live without it, but I have good reasons for wanting both.) However, access to Mouse Event is now greyed out.

 

It seems the same applies to any attempt to add a second activation of the same type. Apart from Mouse Event, another type I anticipate needing more than one activation is Schedule, as I might want to supplement an existing scheduled run with another, perhaps temporarily.

 

Was this restriction by design, and would it be possible to relax it in a future release please?

 

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Terry, East Grinstead, UK

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Only one of any activation type is allowed. But it is extremely easy to do what you want. Simply create another macro with the other activation and put a Macro Run command in it to run the original macro.

 

Ah, thanks Kevin, that sorts it nicely!

 

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Terry, East Grinstead, UK

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Only one of any activation type is allowed. But it is extremely easy to do what you want. Simply create another macro with the other activation and put a Macro Run command in it to run the original macro.

 

I have a bunch of macros (hundreds) for which I use shortkeys to type longer clips of text, and am trying to figure out if I can combine them into a single macro with multiple activations of different shortkeys. Based on my reading here, that's currently not possible. So:

 

a ) I'd put forward another vote to allow multiple different shortkey (or multiple different instances of the same activation type) to be permitted, and:

 

b ) The second part of the solution to my many-one-line-macros is that I'd like to be able to discern the actual shortkey (or hotkey) used to invoke the macro and then do a Switch on it.

 

Even if "a)" is implemented, it there (or could there) be a way to know which shortkey/hotkey invoked a given macro so I could test and branch based on it??

 

Thanks.

 

Jace

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