Question about macros
Question about macros
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Hello everyone,
A program I frequently use is very powerful computationally, however lacks some basic user friendliness.
Now this program has tool palettes on the side of the main window...
How hard is it to setup the following:
A macro that, when activated by a hotkey, goes and clicks the desired tool and returns the cursor back to it's original position.
With my slight understanding of macros, I assume this can be done such that the whole process is pretty much instantaneous, thus creating the illusion that the software actually has hotkeys.
Any help would be much appreciated.
A program I frequently use is very powerful computationally, however lacks some basic user friendliness.
Now this program has tool palettes on the side of the main window...
How hard is it to setup the following:
A macro that, when activated by a hotkey, goes and clicks the desired tool and returns the cursor back to it's original position.
With my slight understanding of macros, I assume this can be done such that the whole process is pretty much instantaneous, thus creating the illusion that the software actually has hotkeys.
Any help would be much appreciated.






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I have suggested it to their developers a few times, but they must be working on bigger and better things!
Which is good, but still leaves me moving my mouse to the right hand side of the screen everyone 3 seconds....
Have you tried any of the recorders above?
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I've posed this to them on their own product support forum.
However, this thread was fairly general in terms using of macros.
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However, I was specific in what the macro needed to do.
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This is not even remotely a general question, since you're looking specifically for solution in Bentley RAM.
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This macro could apply to almost every program that uses a tool palette style interface.
I've gone down the route of the RAM specific path and found that it's a dead end, thus why I'm here asking for advice on 3rd party and more generalised macro software.
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So, yes, in general, an operating system macro could be written in C++ or Visual Basic to do something like that, but it wouldn't be particularly bullet-proof against odd things happening.
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