Hi
I want to run menu commands from inside an AFL script. In particular I want to apply "Pretify Selectgion" to an entire .afl file, from inside another AFL file.
From what I am reading, I need to use SHELLEXECUTE ( https://www.amibroker.com/guide/afl/shellexecute.html ) to run a BATCH (abb file, https://www.amibroker.com/guide/h_batch.html ).
Is this the way to do it?
"Prettify selection" is a code-reformatting feature that is intended to be used by human during code editing, not by computer behind the scenes when no-one is looking. I don't think AFL should be used to trigger code formatting of another AFL file.
Hello @Tomasz
I understand your suggestion.
In general though, what is the way to execute Amibroker menu commands? Is it with SHELLEXECUTE that runs a BATCH (abb file) ?
Only the functionality provided by OLE interface http://www.amibroker.com/guide/objects.html is intended to be used programmatically.
Hello
I doubt that I can write it myself, I mean with the OLE object, but what is the command to access the "Prettify Selection" menu? Can it be done?
I think the OLE object is safer to use from a .JS file run from windows/dos.