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Posted: November 04 2005 at 23:13 | IP Logged Quote npavkov
I have a trigger that when I hold the dim button of a switch it produces multiple dim commands to be sent depending on how long the button is held down.
is there a way to code a macro to only execute once (triggered) even though the trigger tries to execute the macro multiple times because of the multiple dim commands being seen?
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Posted: November 04 2005 at 23:34 | IP Logged Quote TonyNo
I would use a Global Variable to hold a flag, normally set to "1", and used in the trigger's enable field. In your macro, set that variable to "0", handle the dim, do a Wait for some time (several seconds?), then set the variable back to "1".

This should give you what you want.
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Posted: November 05 2005 at 19:05 | IP Logged Quote npavkov
Tony is there a way to make a macro wait "until" a global variable changes? I want to put a macro in wait staus, then allow it to continue when a global variable changes.
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Posted: November 06 2005 at 09:28 | IP Logged Quote TonyNo
Maybe split the macro in two around the proposed wait location, then create a trigger to run the second macro when the GV changes?
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Posted: November 06 2005 at 19:23 | IP Logged Quote dhoward
Tony,

Excellent solution for working around the multiple dim problem

Concerning the macro wait until GV changes...again, I would do as Tony suggests since a waiting macro is strictly timed based. You could have the macro wait a shorter time period and everytime it wakes up, check the GV and if not set, wait again, but I would try to split it up and have the second part of the macro triggered when the GV changes.

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