Limitations of Macros: no way to automate execution

[PeterinJapan]

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. 

[walt.farrell]

Lack of scripting support is not a bug, Peter.

Please use the Feature Requests forums for requesting the implementation of new functions.

[loukash]

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