Macros for the OCLC Connexion client written by Walter F. Nickeson, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, 14627. [email protected]
These macros work for me with Connexion client 3.1 and Windows 11 Enterprise & 64-bit Windows 10 Pro, but no guarantees are promised or implied. IMPORTANT NOTE: Macros with dialog boxes (also called "popups") often (but not consistently) run slowly and may even cause the Client to crash. Re-starting the computer may help somewhat. A solution that always works, but is inconvenient, is to run the macro while having it open in the Macro Editor. Although this solution makes the macro execute at normal speed, the ability to invoke the macro with a shortcut key is lost, and therefore is far from ideal. This is a long-known problem with the Client.
The five macrobook files are: Essentials.mbk, Extras1.mbk, Extras2.mbk, Extras3.mbk, and MacroTools.mbk. See the PDF file "Walt's Macros" for a list of which macros are in each macrobook. To get all the macros, simply download the macrobook files into [X]:\Users\[your user name]\AppData\Roaming\OCLC\Connex\Macros. Then, in Connexion, assign keystrokes to the macros.
Read a .txt file to see the macro code. Look for the "How it works" section near the top for complete information on how to use the macro and its features.
To install a single macro while viewing its file here: In Connexion, go to Tools>Macros>Manage, select a macrobook or create a new macrobook, and click "New macro.". Copy the description from the file, starting on the second line, into the box "Macro Description" and click OK. If this description is longer than two lines, take out the single quotation marks and line breaks. Click "OK." Then copy the macro name from the first line of the file, paste it into the box, and press [ENTER] or click "OK." Click "Edit" to open the macro editor for this macro. Copy the whole text file, including the name and description already copied, and paste it into the macro editor, replacing any text that appeared when you opened the editor. Click the check mark in the toolbar to make sure the macro is compiled and saved (after fixing any errors), and then you can close the editor and begin using the macro.
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