IDM PowerTips

Auto-load macro with project

Many UltraEdit/UEStudio users rely heavily on projects – and why not? Projects are extremely helpful in managing related files and folders. Projects not only allow you to group/manage your files and folders, but projects also contain other items that relate to how you work (and what you need to do) with those files; such as wordfiles, tools, etc.

As of UltraEdit v16.10, you can now (optionally) maintain project-related macros with your projects instead of maintaining a global list of macros.

Note: This power tip assumes you have already written/saved a macro. As such, writing macros is outside the scope of this power tip. If you need to learn more about writing macros, please see our writing macros power tip.

Auto-load macro with project

You can specify your project-related macros with the “Set Auto Load Macro” function in the Project menu.

Note: The “Set Auto Load Macro” menu item will not be available when there is no active project.

Writing a Macro<br />

After clicking on the menu item, the “Specify Macro File to Load on Startup” dialog will open. Simply browse to the location of your macro file then click OK.

Writing a Macro<br />

Your specified macros will now be available whenever you open/load the project.

Note: The project autoload macro setting will always override your default autoload macro setting; therefore your “main” macros will not be available when you load the macros for the project.