A tool for scripted demos, KM issues that came up, & solutions

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@avialan

Variables - which I see and edit in KM App - must come from KM Engine. Listing macros & getting their names: KM. Executing macros: KME…

That's an astute observation. However bear in mind that a list of macros running in the KME would not be very meaningful, because names of macros are not unique when the Engine deals with them. That's because the same macro can be running concurrently in the Engine. For uniqueness, I think the KM Engine provides UUIDs, which you can find on this page:

https://wiki.keyboardmaestro.com/Tokens

@avialan

Likewise, no method to execute macros by variable name, if I could get that list.

No method? You can do this by passing the name to an Execute AppleScript action.

'Execute Macro' by Name in a Variable

Instead of the built-in Execute a Macro action, you can run a macro via AppleScript. As an example, this macro: [image] tell application "Keyboard Maestro Engine" set MacroToRun to getvariable "ThingToDo" do script MacroToRun end tell executes this macro: [image] which produces this result: [18%20AM] With this method, you could set the variable naming the macro-to-be-run however you like, then either replace your current "IF ELSE" based macro with one consisting of this single Execute a…