Variables in nested macro

[gummybear]

On the recommendation of somebody in some post somewhere in the forums, I have 1 macro that runs every 10 minutes and also schedules other macros when the time is right.

So it's

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scheduler macro:
if time is whatever: run macro 1
if time is whatever: run macro 2
macro 3
macro 4

What I'd like to know is how the variables in the nested macros work. For example, I've found that if I set Let>browser=something in the scheduler macro, I can't use the browser variable in any of the nested macro, it doesn't work.

My macros use a lot of image recognition and if I have a NumFound variable in macro 1, and the same NumFound variable in macro 2, will they be independent variables or will NumFound in macro 1 carry over to macro 2?

Assigning 3 new variables for every image recognition sequence seems very tedious and I was wondering if there was a more efficient way.

Thanks

[gdyvig]

Hi gummybear,

Each macro has its own variable scope, so nesting is OK.

It is subroutines within a macro that have global scope and you run into the nesting problem you describe.

With Macro Scheduler v12, subroutines with local scope will be possible as well.


Gale

[Marcus Tettmar]

And if you WANT global scope then consider using Include instead of Macro

Or use Macro and pass parameters into the called script.

See:
http://www.mjtnet.com/blog/2009/09/09/i ... ary-files/