Macro: Get Counts of Enabled and Disabled Macro Groups and Macros

[ccstone]

@ccstone

Here's how I counted them...

Hey Folks,

Here's a macro with a little more polish than the AppleScript above.

-Chris

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Keyboard Maestro -- Counts of Enabled and Disabled Macro Groups and Macros v1.00.kmmacros (5.9 KB)

[Sleepy]

A different way to getting the total number of Enabled or Disabled macros is to type the letters "e:" or "d:" in the search box of the editor, and the total number appears in the status bar of the editor a second later. I'm sure this is obvious to most of you reading this, but it's worth mentioning.

I knew there were advanced search features for this box, but only now did I look them up. https://wiki.keyboardmaestro.com/manual/Search_Strings

The advanced parameter that really surprised me was this one: "use:1d" which lets you list only the macros that were used in the last day. That could be very useful.

I would like to see a new filter that selects macros based on a minimum size. Eg, "size:10000" would list all macros over 10,000 bytes in size. This is actually not a bad idea. It would really help me right now with getting rid of big macros to improve the KM Editor's performance. And I would never say any new feature should be easy to implement, but that's how I feel about this one.

[peternlewis]

I have noted the feature request for a size filter. It may be problematic tho, as it would be expensive to compute, but maybe I can cache things.

[Sleepy]

Understood. But I don't mind waiting a long time for search results that returns the names of all my large macros. It's always your call.

[skillet]

@ccstone

Here's a macro with a little more polish than the AppleScript above.

-Chris

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Keyboard Maestro -- Counts of Enabled and Disabled Macro Groups and Macros v1.00.kmmacros (5.9 KB)

Thank you for this Chris.

@peternlewis

I have noted the feature request for a size filter. It may be problematic tho, as it would be expensive to compute, but maybe I can cache things.

Has this been implemented? I'd love to trim the fat off of large macros.

Also not directly related it is worth noting that disabled macros will still run via a subroutine and only disabled the trigger. However Keyboard Maestro is inconsistent in it's behavior and a macro is called via AppleScript it will not run. I guess in some ways you could say AppleScript is the trigger and this could be helpful so you can choose if you want to call something via a subroutine or via an AppleScript but @peternlewis doesn't garentee this behavior will remain the same.

Disabled macro still runs

It doesn't make any difference how it is triggered, my comment was just that the question as asked, namely “to get the activation status of a running macro” does not make sense. You can get the activation status of a macro, as shown. You cannot get the activation status of a “running macro” because there is no concept of activation status once a macro is running. And yes, it is somewhat inconsistent that you can trigger a macro with Execute a Macro while it is disabled or inactive, but you c…

Apps like CommandPost show all of Keyboard Maestro's macros and I suspect it calls them via AppleScript since when they are disabled they do not run.