Close and DON'T save file

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That’s great! I had no idea you could use patterns in Press a Button.

Suppose I couldn’t though. I am sure this has been asked before but I can’t figure out how to find it: is there any way to have a series of actions, where the series (or macro itself) is exited once one of the actions succeeds? I know I can terminate the macro on failure, but I don’t know how to do something on success.

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  • Press Button “Whatever”, no notification, no aborting
  • If text %ActionResult% is not OK
    • Press Button “Whatever Else”, no notification, no aborting
    • If text %ActionResult% is not OK
      • Press Button “Whatever Else”, no notification, no aborting
      • etc

They have to be nested as otherwise the If action will succeed at doing nothing and set %ActionResult% to OK.

To avoid nesting, you could do something like:

  • Press Button “Whatever”, no notification, no aborting
  • Set variable Result to %ActionResult%
  • If variable Result is not OK
    • Press Button “Whatever Else”, no notification, no aborting
    • Set variable Result to %ActionResult%
  • If variable Result is not OK
    • Press Button “Whatever Else”, no notification, no aborting
    • Set variable Result to %ActionResult%
  • etc
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This is different. It is an error dialog. It has only one button, which you must press (or, since it is selected, type Return).

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The above macro works fine with one open tab.
How would I modify it for multiple tabs, ie make it recursive in the sense that each tab is closed in sequence until all tabs are closed.
thanks very much

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Well, this is probably app dependent, but you might try this, assuming your documents are all in windows with a name:

  1. set KM variable (WinName) to name of frontmost window
  2. Repeat while WinName is not empty
    1. Execute the above macro/actions
    2. set KM variable (WinName) to name of frontmost window
    3. Maybe a short Pause (0.1 sec)
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Could you give me just a hint as to which actions I would use to do so ?
Thank you very much !

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Have you tried using the Insert Action by Name in the Edit menu (or ⌃⌘A)?

Invoke this tool, and type in a key word, like:

  • set variable
  • while
  • execute macro
  • pause
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thank you very much !
It was the set variable and while that I was not familiar with.