[RWP] ReaScript

Wed Sep 11 19:50:56 EDT 2013

This should explain how to chain actions together easily enough on any platform.

http://reaaccess.com/pipermail/rwp_reaaccess.com/2013-May/004998.html
On Sep 11, 2013, at 4:22 PM, Indigo <33indigo at charter.net> wrote:

> I tend to forget anything I don't use regularly, and I only looked into JS years back.
> It would be best to google the words cockos..reaper..js..wiki
> and you'll get the wiki on jessusonic and how it works.
> If you don't put cockos as the first word. google will give you a bunch of other reaper hits, like Grim reaper, which is  some movie title, I think.
> I'm surprised you didn't find the default scripting thing in the options/preferences menu.
> I'll go now and look.
> Okay, I just popped into Reaper and it's called ReaScript, just below Rewire.
> 
> With ReaScript you can really make things happen in Reaper.
> There is a help file for how to use ReaScript, I believe.
> Just click enter on ReaScript in preferences and take a look at it.
> Sorry, I can't provide instructions on how to chain actions together.
> I believe it's very simple, though; like maybe there's a selection for chaining actions in the actions dialog.
> You might google cockos..reaper..chain..actions to get a wiki on how to do it.
> Indi
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> Indi
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> On 9/11/2013 1:19 PM, Goldfinga Productions wrote:
>> I don't see these programs you are talking about under the control P menu. I am using 3.78…
>> I know that I have to install the SWS stuff, but as far as the js stuff… Where are these scripts or what ever? And how does one go about chaining functions together to cut down on hotkeys, like batch type processing?
>> 
>> 
>> On Sep 11, 2013, at 7:11 AM, Indigo <33indigo at charter.net> wrote:
>> 
>>> I don't know anything about programming, but I can answer 1 or 2 of these questions.
>>> You can trigger another following action with a Reaper action, no limits on how many you chain together; so a single initial shortcut triggers them all.
>>> While chaining actions you can set conditions, like wait so many seconds, or wait until such and such is complete to trigger the subsequent action.
>>> Some of ReaAccess's actions are displayed among the standard Reaper actions.
>>> I can't tell you where to find them in the actions list right now, but I remember some that begin with the word say, so if you put that single word in the actions search box you'll find some of the ReaAccess actions.
>>> Reaper includes several default macro programs; one you can find in options ctrl+P.
>>> JS jessusonic also has its own macro program.
>>> Also, there is the SWS standing Water Studio actions list, which easily doubles the default number of reaper actions.
>>> I only looked at how SWS works for a few minutes, but the SWS language looked very simple to me, only a punctuation mark and a few short words does a lot.
>>> I think the link is www.standingwaterstudios.com
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On 9/10/2013 10:22 PM, Derek Lane wrote:
>>>> Do macros help?
>>>> Also, how does reaaccess actually add its actions to reaper?  Does the reaaccess dll some how contain rea script?
>>>> I know that a decompiler will only yield code which could be recompiled to get the same result, but may otherwise be meaningless;  but still, has anyone tried decompiling reaaccess.dll just to see if something useful does exist?
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>   ----- Original Message -----
>>>>   From: Victor Tsaran
>>>>   To: Reapers Without Peepers
>>>>   Sent: Tuesday, September 10, 2013 9:52 PM
>>>>   Subject: Re: [RWP] ReaScript
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>   The biggest problem with Reascript is that you can only have a single shortcut per script. I wish there was a feature called something like "script set" which would behave similarly to JAWS script.
>>>> 
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>>>>   On Sep 10, 2013, at 6:34 PM, "Jim Snowbarger" <Snowman at SnowmanRadio.com> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>     I think useful things could be done there, in python land.  There are all kinds of hooks into reaper, and actions, etc.
>>>>     I started looking into that a couple months back, but ran into problems getting screen reader independent speech out of Python.  Queries to the reaper forums yielded no help.  I have a python function that will speak when run from the Python interpreter, but, for some reason, not when I married it up with ReaScript.
>>>>     That doesn't mean it can't be done, only that I didn't suck any seed before I got distracted with more essential matters.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>       ----- Original Message -----
>>>>       From: Jim Noseworthy
>>>>       To: midimag at midimag.org ; Reapers Without Peepers
>>>>       Sent: Tuesday, September 10, 2013 9:28 AM
>>>>       Subject: [RWP] ReaScript
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>       Hi folks:
>>>> 
>>>>       Can accessibility be accomplished through ReaScript and Python? Apparently Perl is not supported any more at this time.
>>>> 
>>>>       Thanks.
>>>> 
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