Restarting

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This may be a stupid question, but is there a way to restart a macro from within a sub? If certain conditions occur, I want to restart the macro from the begining and not continue on the current loop. The problem is that the check is nested several layers down in subs.

I think it is illegal to /goto outside the current sub so I cannot just /goto :BEGIN where :BEGIN is the Main Sub.

Take the folloing example:

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 Sub Main
:BEGIN
/call checkok

/call otherstuff
/goto :BEGIN
/return

Sub checkok
 /if <condition> /call restart
/return

Sub restart
???????
/return

What should go into the restart sub?

Also, I know with this simple example, you could just use a return from the checkok sub, but in my real macros check ok is used all over the place and is called from subs nested down several levels.

[Falco72]

I suggest you something like this:

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Sub Main
:startloop
/call whatever
/call some else
/delay 10
/goto :startloop
/return

It will loop the macro till you will not kill it. The /delay command is to not take too many resources of the cpu, no need to have a macro that loop 100 times in a secs.

[daerck]

You could use the $return and a basic loop, or just incorporate your restart statements in the Main routine.

i.e.

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Sub Main
:Begin
/call checkok
/if $return==RESTART /goto :Begin
{blabla}
/return

Sub checkok
/if condition /return RESTART
/else /return OK