Mike's Modular Macros
Current Version: 2.31
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Version 2.31 Note: "Transfer Value" macros tweaked to fix bug.
Version 2.3 Note: "FindStrings" general search
macro added: now you can search for all occurrences of any string
through all objects!.
Version 2.2 Note: Besides minor tweaks, Transfer Value and
Transfer Any Value macros added.
Version 2.0 Note: The only real improvements in
functionality are that MapIt works a lot better, since addresses are
turned into postal service abbreviations (United States), and EMail.mac
works better since it now will display e-mail addresses in links. The
GetData procedure has been streamlined and is faster. I also added a
macro which changes the Local directory, in case you want something
other than the default. I have changed
all the procedures to having ".proc" suffixes, so that it is clear that
these are not intended to be compiled, so all the macros should be replaced at once.
It occurred to me some time ago that all my
InfoCentral macros have different code for doing the same things within
InfoCentral. Particularly, getting an object and its information should
be standardized, so one doesn't have to redo a dozen separate macros
every time one figures out a better way to do something. The variables
should be standardized, so everything can work together. And so on. So
I did it,
rewriting all of the macros I use most, and placing the common routines
into procedures. This took a long time and lots of work, but the result
is worth it, and makes new macros far easier to come up with. What this
means: you can write your own macros using these procedures, and
develop your own ways to export information. What they do: copy object
names, do e-mail, export objects, find and replace, export list
information, access the Internet, get maps, run utilities, and export
information to all sorts of other programs. The list is too long to put
on this page, so click here for the
list of all the macros in
the collection.
How to use: copy the contents, subdirectories and all, into your
InfoCentral Local directory (where, for instance, the file LABELS.INI
can be found). Select "MAKMenu.mnw" as your menu, which adds Macro Edit
and Run to the menu, plus a bunch of custom commands. Modify "MAKMenu"
as you please.
Also included is a WordPerfect
section,
which contains the macros in WordPerfect format plus some helpful
WordPerfect macros. That is how I write these, since InfoCentral's
macro editor is really primitive. I hyperlink to procedures, redline
comments, and have bookmarks scattered about. All one needs to do is
save to plain text and then compile within InfoCentral. Needless to
say, there's "ICMacroSave" to do that automatically (saves as
WordPerfect, strips the "wpd" extension and saves as plain text in
InfoCentral macro directory). There are also macros to add and remove
"tabs" (I indent in InfoCentral using two spaces, because it's plain
text), add bookmarks equalling the selected text, add hyperlinks to the
selected text, and so on. The full description is here.
- Future
macros: "Export
List" (to generic, Palm
Desktop,
or Outlook) has to be rewritten to use the procedures, but will be
slick when it is. ICAccess needs to be revamped. And I'm going to
think about trying to create a Palm conduit for InfoCentral using
Delphi. Any help there?
Much more detailed information is in the document "Macros and Dependencies," which is
included. As always, the warranty on these macros is limited to
refunding what you paid for them, which is zip. But do let me know if
you run into problems, and I'll try to fix them.
(Download all this stuff from here.)
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Last updated: March 24, 2010
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