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UI: add button to use captured value for output

Open kermitfrog opened this issue 2 years ago • 3 comments

In the UI (1.6b), in Editor -> Output, the captured keys are shown below in grey. To me it was not immediatly clear that this uses the exact syntax I need.

I believe it would add discorverability and easy of use if there was a button titled "use captured output" that would simply add (or replace) the contents of the text field with this value.

kermitfrog avatar Dec 06 '22 12:12 kermitfrog

that would simply add (or replace) the contents

I would do it by appending it to the text input, to avoid unexpected confusion when the macro is suddenly gone.

sezanzeb avatar Dec 06 '22 12:12 sezanzeb

Or maybe A dialog popup: "do you want to replace macro by recorded stuff - Confirm/Abort" if there is anything in the text field. This avoids creating invalid macros.

jonasBoss avatar Dec 06 '22 14:12 jonasBoss

The Confirm/Abort dialog might be annoying once you know how it works. An undo button might be more user friendly.

Another way might be to replace selected selected text - append otherwise. But that might be confusing as well.. :/

kermitfrog avatar Dec 24 '22 19:12 kermitfrog