How do you implement javascript code in macros?

The only way is by open()ing a "javascript:" code.
open("javascript: INSERT JS CODE HERE");

ok, but how do i format the JS

if i just arbitrarily paste block of code where you said to and start k-meleon, it gives some errors and then when i hit the toolbar button to execute the macro it spews more errors

Gotta give it a macro name. Then you have to reference the macro name in menus.cfg or accel.cfg


In macros:

MacroName{
open("javascript: INSERT JS CODE HERE");
}


In menus: Find the menu you want to put it in

macros(MacroName, Menu Name)

I understand all of that.
I am talking about the formatting
It looks like the javascript on macros needs to be written without any line breaks at all

I want to know how it has to be formatted to be correctly read by k-meleon in more of a text processing sense

It looks like the javascript on macros needs to be written without any line breaks at all

Correct. But there's no other "special formating" AFAIK. Just follow the example above. There are some conflicts that arise from certain JS code when read in macros that need adjustment. RMN will have to fill you in on that if he can. But most bookmarklets work without a problem.

Basically, I want to create a macro that switches the integer/string value of some k-meleon user prefs ever 15s or so using javascripts setinterval() timer

can anybody give me some code and let me fill in the blanks?

I'm not sure if there are enough users floating around the forum who are fluent enough in JS code to write out the generic formula. RMN may or may not be able to. I definitely can't : - | All the JS code in the default macros file is based on bookmarklets found on the web. Some were slightly altered, but none were written from scratch. The only macro commands even vaguely similar to time intervals are event macros:

OnLoad
OnStartup
OnQuit
OnCloseWindow
OnCloseGroup
OnWMAppExit

I forgot OnOpenWindow

How about breaking down the code for the Reload Macro.

It seems to be the most complicated but it does use some time interval code.

Is there a way to run certain code (just plain macro, not javascript) every time a page is loaded if a certain condition is met? If so, how? (an example is worth a thousand words)

Yes, the last session macro does that with the Onload macro. So you can take a look at the Onload macro and the macros it references. What do you want to do specifically? Is it confidential? It's hard to give a generic example because certain prefs can be changed. Others can't. And certain things require different methods. It all depends. So what exactly do you want to happen at certain intervals?

@paul:

> It looks like the javascript on macros needs to be written without any line breaks at all

Yes, and of course you'll also need to escape the quotation marks, e.g.
open("javascript:alert(\"something\")")

@caraz:

> Basically, I want to create a macro that switches the integer/string value of some k-meleon user prefs ever 15s or so using javascripts setinterval() timer

Unfortunately, you can't. The macro language is separate from js codes (you cannot run macros from js), and there is currently no macro to do timed looping.

Thanks for all the help. I was able to use the OnLoad event in place of a timed interval.