[KevinH]

Okay, I have spent a few full days trying to come up with a way to make the Automation work more like Plugins with a top level Automation menu that allows any name you want for the automation files.

This has been a really invasive change since it touches the MainWindow interface in so many places and automation files must be allowed to have any unique identifiers as long as they fit the pattern: "automate" + identifier_string + ".txt" so that all of this remains backwards compatible with our previous version of automations lists. These screen caps show the identifiers as "01" and "02" but of course the user gets to set those (but it will start this way for backwards compatibility since only automate 01, 02 and/or 03 can exist.

Here are some screenshots showing the new top menu, the dynamically created run and edit menus under the Automation top menu. With these changes the Automation toolbar icons will be treated just like run plugins buttons with no delay or pull down menus.

Please give these a look. If people like this degree of change and think automation lists are important enough to need this type of treatment please let us know in this thread.

If there is general agreement, I will keep working on it.

Otherwise please suggest a smaller/simpler interface that people can live with.