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jeffw_00
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Hi. When I call my macros from Triggers, I pass an parameter so that the macro can distinguish between when it is called from a Trigger or a Timed event. Thus, all my macros now use [LOCAL1].
Except, when I try to play a macro from the Explorer, [LOCAL1] is undefined and the macro dies.
This sort of sucks, as I play macros from the explorer all the time to debug. Did I just hang myself? or (as I expect) does awesome PH have a way around this?
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Jeff,
Ive been thinking and thinking on this one and cant figure out an easy way around this. The variable set is created new each time a macro is run. Each macro, etc. gets it's own set of variables and they are all initialized as an empty string. The only way I can think to fix it would be change your routine at the beginning of each macro from a variable substitution ([LOCAL1]) to a function (ph_getvar_n(1,1)). You should be able to do this using SQL or by exporting and re-importing.
I cant really think of any other way around this unless specific checking for this event is placed into each macro.
Dave.
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so are you saying I should do something like
ph_macroparm("MACRONAME",(ph_getvar_n(1,1)),0,0,0,0)
(i.e., textually replace [LOCAL1] with (ph_getvar_n(1,1)) everywhere?)
yup - that seems to work - thanks
Ok - I've taken a couple of shots at coming up with the way to do it within SQL - since [LOCAL1] isn't always the same parameter I'm out of my league. If you have an easy way please post. I'm going to try to do it exported (since it's a simple text substitution), but I'd be curious how to do it in SQL if you know off-hand
Thanks!
/j
(now, if I could "force" [LOCAL1] so that I could easily test a macro with it set to 1 or 0..... - ponder that for the next release 8-})
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Should be easy enough to "force" the [LOCAL1] setting for testing of macros. Just open the Multi-Editor in PH Formula mode and call the macro using ph_macroparm with the appropriate value for [LOCAL1].
Another thing you may want to try is creating a special macro for testing your other macros. This macro would look like this:
10 Input Box No TTS "Enter the Macro ID to test:"
20 Set System [TEMP1] "[INPUTRET]"
30 Input Box No TTS "Enter the value to use for LOCAL1:"
40 Set System [LOCAL1] "[INPUTRET]"
50 Formula Immediate ph_macroparm("[TEMP1]","[LOCAL1]",0,0,0,0)
Give this macro a menu hotkey and then you can quickly and easily test your macros.
Dave.
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DH> Should be easy enough to "force" the [LOCAL1] setting for testing of macros. Just open the Multi-Editor in PH Formula mode and call the macro using ph_macroparm with the appropriate value for [LOCAL1].
JW> I knew that 8-}. Wish I could temporarily define LOCAL1 as a global somehow (just daydreaming).
DH> Another thing you may want to try is creating a special macro for testing your other macros. ... Give this macro a menu hotkey and then you can quickly and easily test your macros.
JW> Yeah, but then I'd have to -type- something.
Just giving you a hard time - this all makes a lot of sense.
Thanks!
/j
Edited by jeffw_00 - December 01 2007 at 21:40
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