[Feature Request] Use of diagrams

[themegaxandy]

[Feature Request] Use of diagrams

[themegaxandy]

Thanks for reading my feedback and keeping it in mind! Your explanation was clear and understandable. So I'll close the issue for now, and don't worry I'll find a way to optimize my macros. If I need any additional help, I'll post it on the OBS forum.

[WarmUpTill]

I will leave the issue open just in case I find myself having a lot of free time on my hand and want to work on this :)

And it will make it easier for others to find this issue in case they want to request something similar.

[WarmUpTill]

Thank you very much for the suggestion and extensive write-up!

I do agree that this would be a neat way to extend the functionality of the plugin, but I have to be honest and say that I likely won't have the time to implement something like this any time soon.

Feel free to contact me directly if you need support / ideas on how your current macro setup might be improved to avoid race conditions.

A possible less expensive solution is: In the "Macro" action of the plugin, where we define it to run actions from a specific macro, there could be a check box to wait for the conditions of the selected macro. Because currently, this action only runs the macro actions regardless of their conditions.

Adding the checkbox to the UI would be easy, but I think the functionality would be quite tricky to implement.
Since macros are executed sequentially this could very easily lead to deadlocks, which of course would be undesirable.
But I will keep it in mind and try to think of something.

[Destroy666x]

Tasker is much more advanced and the prime example to be used for automation apps IMO (except that Automate is more user-friendly). E.g. with concept of states which are kind of like if/else here but more advanced and refined. Generally with more possibilities in terms of flow.

A possible less expensive solution is: In the "Macro" action of the plugin, where we define it to run actions from a specific macro, there could be a check box to wait for the conditions of the selected macro

This could be just replaced by "Run macro" action instead, which would do the whole flow of macro (condition -> if/else action), which would be more user-friendly. Or perhaps a different concept of "functions" runnable only from macro actions could be introduced, but that's even more work ofc.

Another workaround for your use case of TTS would be something like "wait until" action also available in Tasker. E.g. wait until a variable is set to value and then a macro that checks if a text file changes and sets a var to its contents. Then the command could modify the text file once earlier process finishes. But probably not easy to implement either with how this plugin works now.