Need ability to perform some task with all members of a selection list

[westram]

Example:

• search some species using search tool
• with each hit selected execute a macro

Whole example should be recordable.

#455 only blocks macros that want to do somethingMore after doing something with all marked species (example above should already work).

Also need to be able to perform a macro with all marked species.

[westram]

Replying to westram:

Also need to be able to perform a macro with all marked species.

Workaround added with [11763]:

• start ARB_NT/TOOLS/Start XTERM
• call

  $ARBHOME/PERL_SCRIPTS/MACROS/with_all.pl MARKED somemacro
  

[westram]

add one species to using itself as filter

[westram]

• [11766] allows to execute a macro with all marked species from GUI

[westram]

Replying to westram:

• search some species using search tool
• with each hit selected execute a macro

Impossible: information whether species is queried is server/client local, i.e.

• it cannot be retrieved from perl code
• performing loop in server is hard to achieve (as it has to be in AW_root::main_loop in order to process macro-code

Workaround:

• store config
• 'mark listed unmark rest'
• execute macro with marked species (restoring config if needed)
• restore and delete config

[westram]

Replying to westram:

information whether species is queried is server/client local

FYI: this can be seen in action like follows:

• open db
• export/mergeToNew
• transfer species

The left query box acts on the same (as client) as the normal query box in ARB_NTREE (as server). They do not interfere.

[westram]

by [11778]