i have made a .ms file of all the macros my main script need in it i wrote 3 functions each containing a macro definition
now i want this file to be imported into my main script ( without evaluating because that will install all 3 macros )
i want to only install the macro i need by calling its function without the rest
unfortuantely both include and filein commands evaluate the code
so whatever i do i always end up having all my macros installed at startup
is there any way to achieve this ?
docs say that you can alternatively define it like this
macros.new <category_string> <name_string> <toolTip_string> <buttonText_string> <body_string>
sorry but i don’t understand how that will help
i know how to define macro
i just don’t want to write the macro scripts in my main script code
i want to import them without evaluating
I thought it was pretty obvious. Define your macro inside of some function and call it when you need them to evaluate
i can’t get the < body_string > to work it gives me errors whatever i do
my macro work with a filein command that reads the <macro_script_body> from some ms file
no matter how i put my filein string path to that <body_string> it wont work
and i also use the on ischecked do & on execute do commands and both gives me errors now
also i cant find a place for iconname to be defined in this way
and if it work how would i call that function in my main script ? with include or filein wouldn’t that evaluate them after all ?
then simply substring needed macro and execute it
example
tmp.ms contents
–macroName_1
macroScript macroName_1
category:“xxx”
tooltip:””
icon:#(“iconFileName”,1)
()
–macroName_1_end–macroName_2
macroScript macroName_2
category:“xxx”
tooltip:””
icon:#(“iconFileName”,1)
()
–macroName_2_end–macroName_3
macroScript macroName_3
category:“xxx”
tooltip:””
icon:#(“iconFileName”,1)
()
–macroName_3_end
fn MakeMacro index =
(
local txt = (dotNetClass "System.io.File").readalltext @"C:\temp\tmp.ms"
start = findString txt ("--macroName_" + index as string)
end = findString txt ("--macroName_" + index as string + "_end")
execute (substring txt start (end - start))
)
MakeMacro 2i got it to work finally
my knowledge is still lacking and am learning alot
you solution was too much for me atm
thanks alot you and denisT help alot