Macro pop-up

Commandline (pop-ups) currently only support input of "strings", not numbers....

As usual, LUA to the rescue.

As a work around you could do something like this:

Lua'local x = tonumber(TextInput("Group?")); Cmd("Group " .. x);'

Lua has a tonumber function that tries to take a string and convert it to a int or float.

If you entered a string like "six" this would cause a LUA error. so slightly modifying it to:

Lua'local x = tonumber(TextInput("Group?")); if x ~= nil then Cmd("Group " .. x)end;' 

Would not cause the error, and just not do anything if you did not enter a number.

as Lua alternative, the following should be sufficient:

Lua "Cmd('Group ' .. TextInput('Group?')"

converting to number is in this scenario a detour, as concatenating effectively converts x back to a string.

I tryed the following plugin, what is wrong? It only executes the TextInput, but after that nothing [and yes I executed the StorequestionAppearance()]

local Index = {}
        Index[1] = MacroStartIndex
        Index[2] = AppearanceStartIndex

local function Startup()
     Cmd("Delete Appearance" .. Index[2])
end


local function StorequestionAppearance(display_handle)
    local Appearancequestion = "Select were the Appearance should be stored?"
    local AppearanceStartIndex = tonumber(TextInput(Appearancequestion)); 
    
    if AppearanceStartIndex ~= nil then
        Startup()
    end
end

Error:

LUA Runtime Error :9: bad argument #1 to 'tonumber' (value expected)

My Input is just a number like 100

My Input into the AppearanceStartIndex is 100

maybe the code-examples below can help you understand some of the issues with you coding:

(goto https://www.lua.org/cgi-bin/demo , paste the code and press run)

a = "Initial value"
b = a
a = "New value"
print (b)

----

local c = "first scope"
do
 local c = "new scope"
 print (c)
end
print (c)

Wow such a simplified answer with so much helpful content!!!

Thank you so much!!!

I wanna make a small lua script for a Selected Executor.
Label selected executor for example. Is it possible to make a Lua that makes a Variable of the selected Executor ?

Quote from Svenwitt

I wanna make a small lua script for a Selected Executor.
Label selected executor for example. Is it possible to make a Lua that makes a Variable of the selected Executor ?

Don't need Lua for this. Here's your macro line:

• Label Sequence

(Don't put a sequence number and it will act on the selected sequence)

i know, but then its not possible to say Label Sequence with a predifined text in it.
I wanna say Label 2 Part for example

If you want to set a predefined text, and not trigger the label popup, instead of Label, use the Set function (on the Name property):

Set Sequence Property "Name" "2 Part"

and if i want to assign a executor config to the selected sequence without typing sequence 1001 ?

Exec Configs are assigned to Executors, not to Sequences.

I'm sorry i mean, exec config to selected exec

As Ryan said, there is no spoon

When you apply the Select command to an executor, it will pass it to the sequence and select that sequence, not the exec.

try to assign the same sequence to two different exec. e.g. 201 and 211 and you will see that both seems to get selected, as it is the sequence that actually gets selected.

Nevertheless, your earlier post indicates that your macro knows the name of the sequence.

As executors take the name of the assigned object you can use that name to access the exec:

Set Sequence Property "Name" "2 Part"

Assign Configuration "Flash Button" At Executor "2 part"