PeterinJapan Posted January 21, 2021 Share Posted January 21, 2021 I continue to enjoy using Affinity Macro, and try to work it into my workflow. I am a huge an of automation to save time, and am hoping that some of the problems with Macro recording (like the inability to record a copy command, meaning that I can't record an action involving copying some part of an image, pasting it and moving it in a new image I am working with) can be addressed. I brought this bug up in this post Another problem is that, since there's no way to support Applescript or Javascript as Photoshop had, we can't make any macro saved to a library execute via any scripting method, for example using Keyboard Maestro, which is a holistic automation tool on Mac I use daily. One solution would be to have all available macros saved in a library to be accessible in some menu, anywhere, so that a user wanting to automate some task that a Macro would work for, could select that menu option via his script. TL;DR there is no way to execute macro execution in AF, and adding all available macros to some system menu or submenu would be one way of solving this problem. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted January 21, 2021 Share Posted January 21, 2021 Lack of scripting support is not a bug, Peter. Please use the Feature Requests forums for requesting the implementation of new functions. Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2, 16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.7, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loukash Posted January 21, 2021 Share Posted January 21, 2021 8 hours ago, PeterinJapan said: can't make any macro saved to a library execute via any scripting method, for example using Keyboard Maestro System Events? I haven't tried that with the Affinity suite, but I've had quite some success via Keyboard Maestro to control other apps that are totally AppleScript-ignorant otherwise. E.g. the Izotope RX8 audio editor which is also a multiplatform app with non-standard MacOS UI. See https://forum.keyboardmaestro.com/t/os-x-accessibility-inspector-uielementinspector-tool-for-ui-scripting/3443 Quote MacBookAir 15": MacOS Ventura > Affinity v1, v2, v2 beta // MacBookPro 15" mid-2012: MacOS El Capitan > Affinity v1 / MacOS Catalina > Affinity v1, v2, v2 beta // iPad 8th: iPadOS 16 > Affinity v2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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