Wish IDE Macros

Jack Cole

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It would be nice to be able to assign IDE actions to a hotkey. Imagine one or more comment link actions being performed when you press a hotkey. A simple example would be Ctrl-M running the IDE command ide://goto?Module=Main. There could be a separate interface for this, or something like a separate code module.

In the code module, it could be defined something like:

B4X: 
#MACRO: Go to Main module
#ACTIVATION: Ctrl-M
#COMMAND1: ide://goto?Module=Main
#MACROEND

Or:

B4X: 
'Go to Main module.
#MACRO: Ctrl-M, ide://goto?Module=Main

'Go to Activity_Create
#MACRO: Ctrl-A, ide://goto?Sub=Activity_Create
 

peacemaker

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For what such long macro-list can be used ?
What more commands for macros ?
 
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Alessandro71

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while i think macros in the IDE would be a welcome addition, i think writing them as code in the modules is a strange approach, also leading to potential problems (malicious macros embedded into projects?)
a record/play approach, alas notepad++, seems more appropriate
 

Jack Cole

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The reason I suggested having a module for it is that this would allow you to use a different set of macros in different apps. I think the risk would be low as it requires the user to activate the macro to run it. I don't think record/play would be needed. You can do that yourself with other programs like Macro Express.
 

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peacemaker said:
For what such long macro-list can be used ?
What more commands for macros ?
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All the things you can do with comment links.

Some possibilities:
Open a folder (like shared files or objects)
Open a website
Open a document (like a change log, testing list spreadsheet, etc...)
Run a program

An additional thing that could be done would be to act on a text selection.

B4X: 
'search b4x forum for the selected text
#MACRO: CTRL-1, https://www.b4x.com/android/forum/pages/results/?query=[selected_text]

'use Google to search for the selected text
#MACRO: CTRL-2, https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Ab4x.com+[selected_text]

'open selected text corresponding to a file in the assets folder
#MACRO: CTRL-3, file://%PROJECT%\[selected_text]
 

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