SPOT 4.1 Basic and Advanced Software Manual for SPOT Insight ...

Ch. 13 - Macro ScriptingRecordThis handy feature allows the user to develop a macro without using the macro window to add commandsline-by-line. Instead, the user selects record from the macro dropdown menu, a taskbar button, or fromwithin the Macro Window. A window will appear informing the user that a new macro is recording.Once this has been indicated, all commands selected from the Spot Software menus, toolbar, or taskbar(except other macro programs) are sequentially added to the developing macro.Developing a Macro Using the Record FeatureFor example, if the first command is to be Get Image, the Camera dropdown would be opened, and the userwould select the Get Image command.This command would automatically be added as the first command following the Begin Macro command inthe macro development.Thereafter, all selected commands would be added after the Get Image command, in sequence, until youchoose to end the macro. To end the macro, simply choose the stop button on the Macro Recorder window.When you choose to end the macro recording, another window will prompt you by asking whether youwould like to save the recorded macro. If you select yes, a subsequent window will appear asking you toname and save the macro.Recording a macro is an excellent way for developing a “rough draft” of a macro program. Once the macrois recorded, you can use the edit macro command to review all of the commands you recorded and modifythe macro program in order to refine it.Spot software users who are use to developing their imaging procedures using the dropdown menus mayfind this to be a comfortable and expedient method for initially developing a macro.242 User Guide to the SPOT Insight Camera