Live Log and Controls?

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@Sokar_Nox

a GUI that’s says like “Start” and “Stop” with some output of specific variables?

I want it to keep running until I click stop, and also print a live log to this GUI, example I could put output to the GUI at specific points in the process.

Hi Joah,
You might want to have a look at my Checkpoint System utility for KM which allows you to do this sort of thing. It was primarily created to assist with debugging macros, but it can also be used for simply tracing/logging a running macro in real time. You can see details of it here

Checkpoint System: An Additional Way to Debug in KM

Hi all, TLDR; If you dislike debugging in KM then there is a new utility waiting to make your life less stressful... now go to the How Do I Get It? section at the end. If you have a few minutes - keep reading! There is one thing I do not enjoy about KM. Debugging In fact, I can see from the forum that some other users feel this way too. I've now been using KM since beginning of 2014 and while my knowledge of KM and skill at constructing macros has increased and improved from the begi…

Another very powerful utility, created by @_jims might also be of help. You can read about it here

MACRO: Insert Action to Check Variable(s), v6.1

PURPOSE Used during macro editing and simple ad hoc debugging, when triggered, this macro will add an action to display all macro variables in the selected actions. For example, the following Keyboard Maestro Actions (and many others) often include one or more variables in the parameters: Set Variable to Text Set Variable to Calculation Split Path Filter Search using Regular Expression If (actions within are also queried) Switch/Case (actions within are also queried) Execute AppleScript Exec…