Macro cancelled — timeout exceeded

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I upgraded to v11.0.4 today. The launcher macro for Calendar works, but after about 20 seconds, a popup appears in the top right corner of the screen. It says

Macro Cancelled
Action 22542 timeout exceeded. Macro
"Launch Calendar" cancelled (when
executing Activate Calendar).

It's just got a hot key defined (option-shift-G), and it says to Activate Calendar, All Windows, and if already at the front, leave it at the front. Same as my other launchers, all of which work fine.

Any idea what's wrong?

thanks

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If that happened to me, the first thing I would do is re-create the macro from scratch, after deleting it. That's because it sounds like the issue might be a bad pointer in the macro to the app. There's only a 10% chance that it will fix the problem, but if you have 30 seconds free, give it a shot.

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I had tried copying a different launcher and changing it, but that didn't work. I tried your suggestion, and … it was in the 90% probability, not the 10%. Didn't work. Thanks for the idea, though.

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Ok. It's your choice. However "copying and changing" doesn't sound like "deleting and re-creating."

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Sorry, when I wrote "I tried your suggestion", I meant literally that I tried it, after doing the copy/modify. Redoing it didn't work.

6

Probably best to show your macro in case anyone sees something. It's easily done by selecting the Macro then using Edit > Copy As > Copy As Image and then pasting into a Reply box here.

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Thanks. I looked for an Insert image feature here, but didn't see it. Turns out just pasting works!

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I'm not certain why that notification is appearing. But you can at least disable the notification by selecting the gear icon (far to the right of where it says Activate Calendar) and unchecking the option for Notify On Timeout.

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This will happen if Calendar does not come to the front.

The action basically does something like this:

  • Ask the system to activate Calendar
  • Wait until Calendar comes to the front

With a 20 second timeout by default on the action.

So if for any reason Calendar cannot come to the front, that will cause the abort to happen.

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It does come to the front, but the message still appears.

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What I would do in your situation is create a new macro which triggers when Calendar becomes the front application, and what the macro would do is make a beep or say "Calendar is at the front."

You can do whatever you want, but that's how I would prove to myself and others that it really is at the front. Since we can't see your screen, providing this information could be persuasive.

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Does KME check for the frontmost app, or does it rely on the OS "telling" it?

What happens if you run this?

Open Calendar.kmmacros (2.9 KB)

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If I use that test macro, I still get a popup, but also a text box:

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Turning off the warning, as someone suggested, does help.