Track Variables that were recently changed?

[adamg]

Is there a way (smart group, applescript, etc) to track recently changed Variables?

Thanks for any and all thoughts!

Semi-Related post How Can I Detect When a KM Global Variable Has Changed?

[ComplexPoint]

What is the problem that you are trying to solve (by tracking variable changes) ?

(For most purposes it can prove simplifying to avoid mutation of the values attached to KM Variable names, and to create a new name (a distinct and additional local KM Variable) for any new values that are obtained)

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or you can accumulate successive values in a Keyboard Maestro Variable Array, using only the final value, or also inspecting the intermediate values:

Accumulated Stages of Variable Value.kmmacros (3.9 KB)

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[Airy]

@adamg

Is there a way (smart group, applescript, etc) to track recently changed Variables?

Try reading this page where I uploaded a macro that tracks variables.

Variable Monitor and Display Macro (v11.0.3)

I created this macro to track global variable usage. Every global variable is tracked, both in terms of the time of each change and frequency of changes. The tracking is done by a 30 minute timer that checks for changes to every variable. If there is a change detected, it records the TIME() of the change and adds 1 to the "count" of changes for each variable. You can change the timer to some other value than 30 minutes. You can also change the Hot Key that triggers the display of the recorded d…