As one octogenerian user of Actiona to another, (I am older), I encourage you to continue learning this tool (although dated) for many automation tasks (desktop and cloud).
It helps to explain to respondents to your posts what version of Actiona you are using, and what OS. Go to Help > About to view the version.
I am on Ubuntu (Linux) desktop with Actiona 3.10.1 installed for development (and I sometimes use Windows 10 / Actiona in dual boot mode). I write this since you refer to Actionaz 3. 3.x.x?
Now I could suggest some process to get you started in managing arrays and lists.
You have some lists of abbeys and other subjects, which “drive” a macro. Can you expand further on what you hope to achieve.
For example if you select
Abbaye St-Etienne
or
Abbeys
What do you expect to happen in your "macro"? What value is there in simply selecting "A". Does not make sense unless you are searching for all titles starting with "A". Very crude.
For example you can write nested arrays where - when you select Abbaye St-Etienne - you can execute a number of sub-actions, such as going to different web sites. Or acting on your "macro".
If I have time in next day or so I will write a small example script.
When you select any Action (Qt object) you see a red "lifebouy" button at bottom of window, to the left of X Cancel..
If you click on this, you will see a mini-tutorial for each Actiona object (in your left panel). This can be helpful in learning basics.
When you expand a bit further we can elaborate more with tips.
But one tip I offer is to try to understand how arrays are specified as a var and then indexed.
Like this ..
var myList = [
["A"],
["Abbaye St-Etienne"],
["Abbeys"],
//…… ………………….
//…………………..
["Abbayes de Fontfroide"],
["Abeilles"],
["Abelia"],
];
we can now use "array addressing notation" to loop through these sub arrays. Using var index = 0 to start.
Understand arrays here:
https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Introduct ... 2.0/Arrays
But also a good tutorial (in English and French) is W3Schools
Javascript
https://www.w3schools.com/js/default.asp
You mention phpbb forum but that is for bulletin boards.
Are you familiar with PHP?
Better to search for Actionscript2 tutorials. Original author Colin Moock,
O'Relily
Mastering Flash Programming.
www.oreilly.com May 2001 published.
But there are free tutorials on the web in various universities.
Another tip. By embedding scripts in actiona > Script > Resources you can use Javascript, or Actionscript, or PHP, or Python and so on. So Actiona becomes a Swiss army knife, linked to other tools.
Please fill in some gaps in our understanding and we can give examples.
I am not multi-lingual and I use DeepL.com for translation when I dive into French forum for ideas.
