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"Use dialog for the name of new label" ought to be ignored by macro AddLabel command.

The label name (text) can be set by the macro with the SetLabel command. Prompting for the label name in macro execution is unnecessary.

Help page:
Use dialog for the name of new label: This is off by default, but when enabled creating a label will pop up a dialog box for you to enter the label name (rather than the default behavior of opening the new label itself for editing). When the dialog is closed, focus is returned to the track which was the focus before the dialog opened. This functionality is primarily provided to aid Visually Impaired users who use screen readers, but may be useful to normally sighted users too.

I presume that this solves the mystery of your other topic?

Al Stu wrote: ↑

Sun Oct 21, 2018 11:13 pm

"Use dialog for the name of new label" ought to be ignored by macro AddLabel command.

I'd guess that most people that turn this option on, actually want this behaviour.
If you want it on normally, but off when running a particular macro, you could add: at the start of the macro, and at the end.

steve wrote: ↑

Mon Oct 22, 2018 12:23 am

I presume that this solves the mystery of your other topic?

Al Stu wrote: ↑

Sun Oct 21, 2018 11:13 pm

"Use dialog for the name of new label" ought to be ignored by macro AddLabel command.

I'd guess that most people that turn this option on, actually want this behaviour.
If you want it on normally, but off when running a particular macro, you could add:

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SetPreference:Name="GUI/DialogForNameNewLabel" Value="0"

at the start of the macro, and

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SetPreference:Name="GUI/DialogForNameNewLabel" Value="1"

at the end.

I'd guess that most people who want it on, is for manually adding labels. It defeats a main purpose of macros. Automation.
I'd also guess that most people who don't what it on would not appreciate a macro leaving it turned on.

Turning it off at beginning of macro and then on again at end of macro may result in it being left off if the macro is halted/fails. If going to use macro to control it then it would be better to have a macro command to ignore the setting rather than changing the setting.