Recording and Replaying a Series of Keystrokes

You can record and replay a series of keystrokes in a method source editor pane.

You can bind a keystroke combination (for example, Ctrl+Shift+F5) to the OpenMacroLibrary command action on the Short Cut Keys sheet of the Preferences dialog, to quickly invoke the Library command from the Macro submenu.

The Macro command enables you to perform the actions documented in the following subsections.

See also "Keystroke Macro Language", later in this chapter.

The Macro command in the Edit menu is enabled only when a method source editor pane has focus.

Each method source editor pane has its own separate temporary keystroke macro buffer. Each pane of a split method source editor has a separate temporary keystroke macro buffer.

Persistent saved macros are stored with your user preferences. Use the import and export facilities to share saved macros with other users or with other JADE environments. For details, see "Editing the Temporary Macro", later in this chapter.

You cannot:

Embed macros within macros
Record or play another macro when recording is in progress
Record or play another macro while a macro is playing

Macro replay halts when the caret is moved outside the document limits (before the start or after the end of the method in the editor pane) or when a Find command has no match.

For details about configuring JADE shortcut keys and editor key bindings, see "Maintaining Shortcut Keys" under "Setting User Preferences", earlier in this chapter.