Feature Request: Warning about a Hot Key conflict

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@Airy

you can even use nested IF actions for multiple applications.

Thanks for the reminder on that. I have been using that for about 15 years for my start and stop playback of Apple music in a way.

• Play Apple Music by default.
• Play Pandora instead, if it's open.
• Play Spotify instead, if Spotify is open (overriding Pandora).

So Spotify has the highest priority for me or, in computer terms, the lowest level of control.

@hemicyon

Alternatively, if there are very many, you could use Switch/Case instead of nesting if statements.

I like that even cleaner.

@griffman

This will be a more viable option once Peter adds all the same options that If/Then actions have. Right now, I often need to use a condition that's only on If/Then actions.

I am pretty new to using the Switch/Case and really like how clean it is but I didn't realize just how crippled it was compared to the If/Then.

IF THEN vs Switch

That is really good to know, I assumed (always a bad idea) that it continued on.

Switch Case First Only

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@Nige_S

Are you also aware you can Option-click an item in that palette to open that macro in the Editor so you can easily change the hot key combo?

Wowzers, that is awesome I always ran the macro and sorted by last used to get to it. That is so much better, THANK YOU!!!

@Nige_S

And use the Editor's "Search" box to see what macros use a particular hot key chord?

Yes, this can still use some improvement and I think it is on Peter's bucket list since you are only supposed to be able to see the options that are listed in trigger and depending on the order you have and what you have it will show or it won't show so you have to add - to eliminate. I just made smart macro groups for all 16 of the combinations.

@Nige_S

So all you'll actually have is a "Hey! This macro shares an hot key trigger with another! It might conflict and it might not -- who knows?" warning. And you can pretty much do that yourself with a Search.

Yeah, it could be a bit messy, and a lot of logic and extra stuff would need to be added to make this possible. So I agree. With that option-click thing, for the most part, I'd say Peter should work on the other list of feature requests, but it would be a nice bell/whistle.