The LA Fox Developer Newsletter

July 1997

Macro Files (Con’t from page 8)

to handle the macro parameter.

What have we gained by using this setup? You still have to

copy MacroL from project to project and modify it slightly for

your macros that are specific to a project. For macros that are

used in all projects, you now have a simple way to instantly add

them to every project.

AND THERE IS MORE

That’s a pretty big improvement over the macro file right there

but we can do better. What happens when we want a macro key

F8 to build an EXE? We have to modify every MacroL program

to add this in. There must be a better way.

For my macro keys, I found that the thing I kept changing in

MacroL was the project name. If it wasn’t for the project name,

MacroG could process the BUILD, DO MyAPP and MODI PROJ

MyApp commands. I came up with this change to MacroL:

PARAMETER IMacro

PRIVATE lAppName

IAppName = ‘MyApp’

DO CASE

OTHERWISE

DO MacroG WITH IMacro

a

ENDCASE

RETURN

MacroG has lAppName available to it and can now process the

three commands that used to be in MacroL. My BUILD APP

command (Fl 1) would look like:

CASE IMacro = 'F11'

PRIVATE IKeyStr

IKeyStr = “{Ctrl+F2}”

\KeyStr = IKeyStr + “Build APP “ + IAppName + “.APP”

IKeyStr = IKeyStr + “FROM “+ IAppName + “.PJX”

Keyboard lKeyStr

At this point, you still copy MacroL when you start a new

project but the only change you make is setting the APP name.

MacroL has almost no commands in it at all. The only com-

mands that should be in it would be very project specific.

MacroG now has nearly all of your macro keys and you can

easily add new macros to every project at once.

[Ed. Note: Todd Landrum is an independent developer. His

company, Paladin Programming, waitescustom software for

businesses in the Denver area. He s a member of the Rocky

Mountain Foxpt User Group. Toed can be reached at (303)

744-0854 orb)’ e-mail at Tlandrum@AOL. COM.]

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