Looping in keyboard macros

[Mark_Richards]

Hi,

I have created the following keyboard macro:

^C^C_.MOCORO \\ \C \X R \

It launches move-copy-rotate, allows me to pick 2 items (in my case a electrical symbol and its associated tag), copies the entities to the desired location then rotates.  It works perfect, however after the rotate I need to repeat the process indefinately starting before the "C".

I know that I can usu an asterisk at the beginning to loop the entire macro, however I dont want to re-select, just continue on with the MCR function using the already selected entities.  Any GOTO function in macros?

I suspect that I might need LISP for this but I not familiar with writng that code.

Any Ideas?

Thanks.

[Kent1Cooper]

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@Mark_Richards wrote:

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I have created the following keyboard macro:

^C^C_.MOCORO \\ \C \X R \

....  It works perfect, however after the rotate I need to repeat the process indefinately starting before the "C".

I know that I can usu an asterisk ..., however I dont want to re-select, just continue on with the MCR function using the already selected entities.  ... 

I suspect that I might need LISP for this....

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One simple thing you can do without Lisp is to just build in a whole bunch of what you need to do.  In many instances you'll do as many as you need and hit Escape to stop before it gets to its end, while once in a while it will run out on you and you'll need to start the Macro again and re-select.  You can build in a lot more than shown here, if you need more.

^C^C_.MOCORO \\ \C \X R \C \X R \C \X R \C \X R \C \X R \C \X R \C \X R \C \X R \C \X R \C \X R \C \X R \C \X R \C \X R \

[Mark_Richards]

Thanks Kent,

That will probably OK.

[Moshe-A]

Mark

if you prefix your macro with an asterik '*' it will run in a loop (esc to stop)

*^C^C_.MOCORO \\ \C \X R \

cheers,

Moshe

[Kent1Cooper]

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@Moshe-A wrote:

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if you prefix your macro with an asterik '*' it will run in a loop (esc to stop)

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[See the original post, in which it is explained why they don't want to do it that way.]