How do I combine two macros in to one?

[bfriesen]

Hi all, I have two macros one creates a jpg the other a cgm. what do I need to do to make them work as one.

Macro export jpeg

# recorded with Arbortext IsoDraw 7.3

  Save

  Define final as string

    final="X:\Photos\" + stripext(activedoc.name) + ".jpg"

    Export final "JPEG"

End Macro

Macro export CGM to sp_windrower image folder

# recorded with Arbortext IsoDraw 7.3

  app.interaction=false

  Save

  Define final as string

    final="X:\Dita Documents\English\Products\sp_windrower\Images\" + stripext(activedoc.name) + ".cgm"

    Export final "cgm"

  app.interaction=true

End Macro

thanks

Bryon

[thendricks]

First, I don't believe you can have spaces in your macro name. Either way, it's not good practice. I personally use an underscore (_) as a space replacement. Based on that...

Say you have your two macros, Macro CGM_Export and Macro JPG_Export. If you want to simply combine them you can call them from a third by doing the following.

Macro Export_All

     Run CGM_Export

     Run JPG_Export

End Macro

If you want to hide the submacros you can either change them to submacros or add 'Not_In_Menu' after the macro name in the macro itself.

[bfriesen · Accepted solution]

Thanks Trevor, I will go back and modify all the names to remove spaces. This is what I figured out to work

Macro export CGM to sp_windrower image folder # recorded with Arbortext IsoDraw 7.3   app.interaction=false   Save   Define final2 as string     final2="X:\Photos\" + stripext(activedoc.name) + ".jpg"     Export final2 "JPEG"   app.interaction=true   app.interaction=false   Save   Define final as string     final="X:\Dita Documents\English\Products\sp_windrower\Images\" + stripext(activedoc.name) + ".cgm"     Export final "cgm"   app.interaction=true End Macro

Thanks

Bryon

[rdiaz]

Hi Bryon,

Did the modification work out for you?

Let us know if there's any follow-up for the community.

Thanks!