The Macro Editor is an integrated development environment that enables you to create, edit, and run macros. The editor also contains debugging functionality such as debugging line-by-line or using breakpoints.

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Menu bar
Here you have central menus, see Macro Editor Menus.

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Tool bar
With the icons you can quickly access the most important functions, like saving or editing macros.

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Button bar
Here you find the buttons to control macros, see Button Bar.

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User Documents
Displays all macros and folders. You can create new or edit existing macros via a right-click context menu, see Macro List Context Menu.

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Code Window
The central area of the macro editor shows the program code of the selected macro. Edit and write your macros in here. Type in the program code directly. Also a multi-document view is available, meaning that you can open several code windows at once. This central editor component supports syntax highlighting for Python, which is the language used for macros in the software.

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Watch/Message Window
The Watch tab in the bottom area enables you to type the macro functions or variables you wish to observe while debugging a macro. Enter the variable directly in the column Name. You can also mark the variable in the macro and add it using Add Watch of the right-click context menu.
The Message window displays messages when using the print command in a macro.