Newbie "IF" and "label" question

[philranger]

Hello,

  Newbie to MMM, but programming savy if I may say so myself.  I have simplified my code to the following, which I test from an empty "Notepad".  Whatever I type in the inputbox, nothing gets written.


1 | RUN ACTION | INPUT BOX | 1=day, 2= night::Time?::STRING

2 | IF | STRING VARIABLE | %STRING% | IS | 1 | GOTO MACRO LINE | 10

3 | IF | STRING VARIABLE | %STRING% | IS | 2 | GOTO MACRO LINE | 20

5 | RUN ACTION | STOP

10 | RUN ACTION | KEYPRESS | Good day mate

15 | RUN ACTION | STOP

20 | RUN ACTION | KEYPRESS | Good evening mlady

25 | RUN ACTION | STOP


But when I change it to the following, it works. 

1 | RUN ACTION | INPUT BOX | 1=day, 2= night::Time?::STRING

2 | IF | STRING VARIABLE | %STRING% | IS | 1 | GOTO MACRO LINE | 5

3 | IF | STRING VARIABLE | %STRING% | IS | 2 | GOTO MACRO LINE | 7

4 | RUN ACTION | STOP

5 | RUN ACTION | KEYPRESS | Good day mate

6 | RUN ACTION | STOP

7 | RUN ACTION | KEYPRESS | Good evening mlady

Since the length of my sections will change in the future, I was wondering if there is a way around it? 

Thanks!

EDIT:

Ok, I found a work around: goto a comment instead of goto a specific line number.





1 | RUN ACTION | INPUT BOX | 1=day, 2= night::Time?::STRING

2 | IF | STRING VARIABLE | %STRING% | IS | 1 | GOTO MACRO LINE | Day

3 | IF | STRING VARIABLE | %STRING% | IS | 2 | GOTO MACRO LINE | Nite

4 | RUN ACTION | STOP

* | Day

5 | RUN ACTION | KEYPRESS | Good day mate

6 | RUN ACTION | STOP

* | Nite

7 | RUN ACTION | KEYPRESS | Good evening mlady

Are there other restrictions about line numbers?  Can they be randomly ordered and skipped?
Thanks!

[Steve]

Oct 23, 2020 13:43:25 GMT @philranger said:

Are there other restrictions about line numbers?  Can they be randomly ordered and skipped?
Thanks!

Hi philranger

Thanks for coming back with your solution to use comments.

Yes, there are some restrictions for line numbers and GOTO MACRO LINE (www.turnssoft.com/conditions.html#gotomacroline).
When GOTO MACRO LINE is directed to goto a line number the macro MUST be sorted. When GOTO MACRO LINE references a number it is the number of the item in the list, not the text number on the macro line.





When GOTO MACRO LINE references a comment string it searches for that string to find a match.

Hope this helps.

Regards,
Steve.

[philranger]

That's a perfect answer, thanks!

If I may say so, I think that allowing editing the number instead of always having an automatic numbering mechanism is a bit misleading then for old-time basic programmers like me (I found the automatic relisting after my initial question)