if statement ...what in the world could possibly be wrong

[SuitedAces]

I have tried every conceivable way to get the WWC_RESULT to work in an if statement and all have failed.
This line ....WriteLn>C:\33.txt,result,%WWC_RESULT%
Write to the file.

As soon as I try this with an if statement it failed for either true or false.
What the hell ?

I tried
If>%WWC_RESULT% = true
If>WWC_RESULT = true
If>%WWC_RESULT% is true
If>WWC_RESULT is true
If>%WWC_RESULT% = false
If>WWC_RESULT = false
If>%WWC_RESULT% is false
If>WWC_RESULT is false
If>%WWC_RESULT% = true then
If>WWC_RESULT = true then
If>%WWC_RESULT% is true then
If>WWC_RESULT is true then
If>%WWC_RESULT% = false then
If>WWC_RESULT = false then
If>%WWC_RESULT% is false then
If>WWC_RESULT is false then

None of them worked

I tried this :
WriteLn>C:\33.txt,result,x
Instead of this:
WriteLn>C:\33.txt,result,%x%

No good, I can't get it to work

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Let>x=if wwcResult was true
Let>y=if wwcResult was false


WaitWindowChanged>10

WriteLn>C:\33.txt,result,%WWC_RESULT%
 
 If>%WWC_RESULT% = true then
 WriteLn>C:\33.txt,result,%x%
 Endif
 
 If>%WWC_RESULT% = false then
 WriteLn>C:\33.txt,result,%y%
 Endif

[Marcus Tettmar]

Unless you have the IGNORESPACES directive enabled, remove the spaces:

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Let>x=if wwcResult was true
Let>y=if wwcResult was false

WaitWindowChanged>10

WriteLn>C:\33.txt,result,%WWC_RESULT%
 
If>%WWC_RESULT%=TRUE
  WriteLn>C:\33.txt,result,%x%
Endif
 
If>%WWC_RESULT%=FALSE
  WriteLn>C:\33.txt,result,%y%
Endif

Also remove "then". Look at the help file topic for "If".

If you WANT spaces (perhaps you're used to real programming languages) then set IGNORESPACES to 1 and read the help file topic "Ignoring Spaces" under "Command Reference".

Also, WWC_RESULT returns FALSE or TRUE (Uppercase).

[Marcus Tettmar]

If: http://www.mjtnet.com/OnlineHelp/hpad280.htm

[SuitedAces]

Holy **** it was the upper case .
This is a different animal.

Most of the software I have worked with ignores case or corrects the case.

[JRL]

Most of the software I have worked with ignores case or corrects the case.

In this case you're making a comparison. Personally, I don't want AAA to be equal to aaa. For a fairly comprehensive (but probably incomplete) look at case sensitivity in Macro Scheduler, look here.

[Me_again]

Most of the software I have worked with ignores case or corrects the case.

Just curious, what software corrects the case of variables?

[Marcus Tettmar]

Holy **** it was the upper case .
This is a different animal.

Most of the software I have worked with ignores case or corrects the case.

It was also the syntax. Here's the syntax for the If statement, taken from the docs:

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If>expression[,true_label_name[,false_label_name]]
       statements    
[ [Else
       else statements]
Endif ]

Examples:

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Let>a=5
//simple expression only
IF>a=5
   //do something
ELSE
   //do something else
ENDIF

//complex expression:
IF>{(%a% = 5) AND (%VarA% = "allen")}
  //do something
ELSE
  //do something else
ENDIF

Regarding case. Macro Scheduler is by design not a typed language, doesn't care about delimiters by default and strings and numbers can be interchanged. So TRUE and FALSE are actually strings. The help file for WaitWindowChanged says that WWC_RESULT returns TRUE or FALSE only.

[Jerry Thomas]

I want to add to this channel even though it has been idle for a while...

I needed to verify that at least 1 checkbox was checked.
(I didn't use Radio Group for reasons I won't go into here.)

I spent way to much time figuring this out and want to share the knowledge of how to check mutiple True/False conditions in 1 If statement.

UpperCase/LowerCase is the issue because getting the state of the Checkboxes returns True/False, but the logic in the If statement requires TRUE/FALSE

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SRT>RotarySpecifyDirection
  GDP>Form1,cbNegativeDirection,Checked,IsNegChecked
  UpperCase>IsNegChecked,IsNegChecked

  GDP>Form1,cbPositiveDirection,Checked,IsPosChecked
  UpperCase>IsPosChecked,IsPosChecked

  GDP>Form1,cbShortestDirection,Checked,IsShortChecked
  UpperCase>IsShortChecked,IsShortChecked
  
  If>{(%IsNegChecked%=FALSE)and(%IsPosChecked%=FALSE)and(%IsShortChecked%=FALSE)}
    MDL>At least one of these 3 must be checked: Negative, Positive, Shortest
  Endif
END>RotarySpecifyDirection