[RWP] Enhancing ReaAccess

[Indigo]

This Cockos Reaper forum is very instructive, showing some custom 
actions, but nobody in the forums seems to carefully outline the rules 
for writing custom actions, or macros.
I think they are assuming  prior knowledge.
In this forum, though, there is a default macro to download; plus a 
macro help file in PDF.
He says just paste the help file into Program Files/reaper; and it will 
appear when you click on Help.
http://forum.cockos.com/showthread.php?t=10049
I learned from looking at outlined macros in the forums that you can 
include not only actions from the actions list; but SWS actions as well.
I don't want to steer anyone wrong at this stage, but it looks as if the 
line for SWS actions begins with SWS followed by a colon, then the name 
of the SWS action.
I'm going to try to chase down exact rules for the punctuation and just 
what needs to be included, both for reaper actions and SWS actions.
Someone in the forums said; don't forget to cover the run that needs to 
be included; and is often overlooked.
I think he is referring to a reaper action; near the end of the action 
list;  titled something like Run Macro, with its number, of course.
It makes sense to me; with the little I know about programming; that a 
run action would be the last line on a list of actions, but I still need 
to verify that.
Nobody included the API or the action numbers in their examples; like 
was shown in the ReaScript Wiki.
Are they just assuming prior knowledge, or is there more than 1 way to 
write a macro?
We'll pin it down yet!

Here are more forums, for looking at their examples, and user-made 
macros to download.

Depository for user made keymaps and custom actions:
http://forum.cockos.com/showthread.php?t=26448

Title My Favorite Macros thread, with some examples:
http://forum.cockos.com/showthread.php?t=102740


On 5/16/2013 6:01 AM, Nadine Jahns wrote:
> Cool! It really works! When i map for example: alt+c to copy item and press it, reaaccess says: copy item. Didn't know about this!
>
> Am 16.05.2013 um 05:13 schrieb Jim Snowbarger <Snowman at SnowmanRadio.com>:
>
>> Credit to Nadine Jahns.
>>
>> Indigo,
>> You can add hot keys to actions, but I bet Reaccess doesn't know about them. Have you tried that?
>>
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>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Indigo" <33indigo at charter.net>
>> To: "Reapers Without Peepers" <rwp at reaaccess.com>
>> Sent: Wednesday, May 15, 2013 9:56 PM
>> Subject: [RWP] Enhancing ReaAccess
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>>> I don't know where or from whom  I got this note:
>>> Snip:
>>> You can setup this in the action list, which you can access in menu/actions/action list or, if you use the reaaccess keymap with the f4 key.
>>> In the search field of the action list, you can type something like set track volume.
>>> Press tab, until you get a list with many entries, for example: Track: Set volume for last touched track (MIDI CC/OSC only).
>>> Search the action you want to map and press tab 2 times, you should stand on the button to add a mapping.
>>> Press spacebar, move the controller and close the window ..
>>>
>>> I hope this helps, this was written from memory, because i'm currently not on windows.End of Snip.
>>>
>>> That comment makes me think that if we create more custom actions with ReaScript, we can add them to the present ReaAccess keymap, and they'll appear within the ReaAccess control panel; the list of ReaAccess shortcuts we get when we press F12.
>>> I havent tried opening the current ReaAccess keymap, but I seem to remember a note about using it default, unless you are a power user, or words to that effect; in the new features section I never look at when installing ReaAccess.
>>> That would be very useful; if possible, since we could reuse some shortcuts that no longer function, like ctrl+enter for the inline midi editor.
>>> The current midi editor shortcut is ctrl+alt+E.
>>> Indi
>>>
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