[SOLVED] Increase variable number indefinitely not working?

[iamdannywyatt]

Shouldn't this keep showing notifications with increasing numbers until I decide to cancel the macro?

Set Variable to Text.kmmacros (21 KB)

[Zabobon]

@iamdannywyatt

Shouldn't this keep showing notifications with increasing numbers until I decide to cancel the macro?

It's not working as you want because the "Retry This Loop" Action is retrying the loop each time from where it was before - i.e. it keeps going back to adding 1 to 0 each time so the answer is always 1.

Instead use a "While" loop. "While Keyboard Maestro is at the front keep looping the Action of adding 1".

In the example below I also added in a pause to keep things from going crazy... The loop will stop when Keyboard Maestro is no longer the front App.

Set Variable to Text v2.00.kmmacros (21.2 KB)

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[iamdannywyatt]

@Zabobon

It's not working as you want because the "Retry This Loop" Action is retrying the loop each time from where it was before - i.e. it keeps going back to adding 1 to 0 each time so the answer is always 1.

So maybe you can help me figure this out as well?

"Retry This Loop" acting the way it's supposed to?

I thought I understood how the Retry This Loop was working a few weeks ago, but today I noticed something that seems unexpected and counterintuitive, at least from my perspective. So I have this macro and then I have an IF THEN action. I use the Retry This Loop at the end of a set of actions and I would expect it to go to the beginning of the IF THEN action (where the green arrow is), instead it's going to the beginning of the macro (red arrow). I know this, because I added that notification ri…

@Zabobon

Instead use a "While" loop. "While Keyboard Maestro is at the front keep looping the Action of adding 1".

This is a good option. It works now!

Thank you so much!