XYplorer Beta Club

The imminent arrival of scripting may be the way forward but also maybe complicated. In Photoshop there is the facility to record actions taken for re-play at any time - simple automation of tasks and very useful.

In XY I can think of several situations where this could be very simple and effective. The idea being that on activating a Record function, a snapshot of XY current tabs etc. is taken and then user actions are recorded until stopped. A UDC could then be assigned to re-play the actions recorded.

This could be very effective for a start of day routine to start XY with various tabs, sort, and backup all started with a single command key.

I too hope such feature will come with scrpting. In my case simple combining of commands is sufficient. But ofcourse, what you suggest is very user interactive and user-friendly. I hope features like this wont bloat XY. That only Don knows.

macro recording would be something like "scripting v2" i guess...

Pagat wrote:macro recording would be something like "scripting v2" i guess...

Yes, right.

The coming features are all nicely related:
Audit trail.
Event log.
Undo.
Scripting.
Recording.

They are all based on a certain abstraction of, say, actions (what you do), functions (what XY does in response), and events (what's actually happening with your files).

This abstraction has already started with CKS and UDC. So it all looks like a straight evolution with a final cause. (Where in reality it's emergence form chaos. )