A Quick Question

[The Artful Dodger 0]

Is it possible to replace the "VOICE:Microsoft Catherine" in the macro: <Macro Name="C208B">VOICE:Microsoft Catherine) (VOICERATE:0) (VOICEVOLUME:15) (SPEAK</Macro>

with a string variable? To produce something like this:

<Macro Name="C208B">VOICE:(L:Voice, String)) (VOICERATE:0) (VOICEVOLUME:15) (SPEAK</Macro>

So that

"Microsoft Catherine" (>L:Voice, String)

would set it up.

 

[Lorby_SI 2,081]

AAO (MSFS) manual, page 67, chapter about "RPN Macros":

Quote

You can also use LVars as macros, AAO will replace the „@variablename“ with the actual value:

2·(>L:engnum)

(A:ENG·COMBUSTION:@engnum,·Bool)

=> (A:ENG·COMBUSTION:2,·Bool)

In your case

<Macro·Name="C208B">VOICE:@voice)·(VOICERATE:0)·(VOICEVOLUME:15)·(SPEAK</Macro>
'Microsoft·Catherine'·(>L:voice,·String)
(@C208B:Test)

Edited February 28 by Lorby_SI

[The Artful Dodger 0]

Thank you so much - I guess I missed that paragraph.

Another quickie: when you issue a (CHECKLIST:xxx) command, does that work like a 'call' or a 'goto'? In other words, is there a return from a (CHECKLIST:xxx)  command? 

[Lorby_SI 2,081]

1 hour ago, The Artful Dodger said:

Thank you so much - I guess I missed that paragraph.

Another quickie: when you issue a (CHECKLIST:xxx) command, does that work like a 'call' or a 'goto'? In other words, is there a return from a (CHECKLIST:xxx)  command? 

I'm sorry, but I don't understand the question. All AAO scripting is asynchronous, the command doesn't block processing. While the checklist is running, you can call a thousand other scripts, script files or CONVERSATIONs and they will execute in parallel. 

How would a checklist "return" to where exactly?

Edited February 28 by Lorby_SI

[The Artful Dodger 0]

Statement A
.
.
(CHECKLIST:My_Checklist.txt)
Statement B

I execute My_Checklist.txt but once My_Checklist is complete, does it now execute Statement B (effectively a call) or is Statement effectively dead (effectively a GOTO)?

Edited February 28 by The Artful Dodger

[Lorby_SI 2,081]

19 minutes ago, The Artful Dodger said:

Statement A
.
.
(CHECKLIST:My_Checklist.txt)
Statement B

I execute My_Checklist.txt but once My_Checklist is complete, does it now execute Statement B (effectively a call) or is Statement effectively dead (effectively a GOTO)?

No, that is not how this works.

As I tried to explain above, everything is asynchronous. Statement B will be executed immediately, regardless of what the checklist is doing or not doing.

The only way for a sequence like you want would be a CONVERSATION where you call the checklist and the checklist then sets an LVar at the end and Statements B would use [] to wait for that change. 
But it would be much more simple to just call Statement B at the end of the checklist file...

Edited February 28 by Lorby_SI

[The Artful Dodger 0]

I was afraid that was the case. So, if I don't want Statement B to execute I would have to say:

(CHECKLIST:My_Checklist.txt) (GOTO Somewhere_else)

Statement B

Is that how to prevent B from executing?

[Lorby_SI 2,081]

7 minutes ago, The Artful Dodger said:

I was afraid that was the case. So, if I don't want Statement B to execute I would have to say:

(CHECKLIST:My_Checklist.txt) (GOTO Somewhere_else)

Statement B

Is that how to prevent B from executing?

What is the point of this exercise? Why add Statement B at all when it is not supposed to be executed anyway?

The GOTO will also not wait for the CHECKLIST, it will be executed immediately (and jump over Statement B)

As mentioned before, what you want to do is a job for the CONVERSATION feature. With a little effort you should be able to impelemt the desired control flow.

Edited February 28 by Lorby_SI