Had another 48hr game jam this weekend...

[Craig Dillabaugh]

On Tuesday, 3 September 2013 at 16:36:11 UTC, Manu wrote:
> On 3 September 2013 07:04, Walter Bright 
> <newshound2 at digitalmars.com> wrote:
>
>> On 9/2/2013 1:36 PM, H. S. Teoh wrote:
>>
>>> It's things like this "keyhole interface", that caused me to 
>>> be
>>> convinced that the GUI emperor has no clothes, and to turn to 
>>> CLI-only
>>> development.
>>>
>>
>> One of the giant failures of the GUI interface, and that VS 
>> suffers from,
>> too, is when you need to do repetitive operations.
>>
>> On the CLI, I constantly use the history list, and I 
>> constantly write
>> throwaway scripts to automate what I'm doing at the moment. It 
>> makes
>> everything I do, no matter how obscure, only 2 or 3 keypresses.
>>
>> With VS, or any GUI, if there's not a button to do it, I'm 
>> reduced to:
>>
>> move mouse
>> click
>> move mouse
>> click
>> move mouse
>> type
>> move mouse
>> click
>> type
>>
>> to get something done. And if I want to do it again, I have to 
>> repeat that
>> process. After the 10th time, it's gaaaaahhh I hate it and go 
>> back to the
>> CLI.
>>
>> I scan a lot of photos. I have a GUI photo editor. A common 
>> thing I do is
>> straighten the photos, because they never go through the 
>> scanner straight.
>> So it's:
>>
>> right shift click on the picture
>> select open with
>> select photoeditor
>> select edit
>> select rotate
>> select autorotate
>> select apply
>> select save
>> select exit
>>
>> Sounds easy, right? It is easy. Now do it to 1000 photos. With 
>> a command
>> line tool:
>>
>> write a script that does it to one picture, name it cc.bat
>>
>> do:
>>    dir/b *.jpg >doit.bat
>>
>> open the file and use the macro feature to prepend "cc " to 
>> each file
>> name, maybe 10 keystrokes
>>
>> execute the script
>>
>> Done! And CLI Clint goes and surfs the n.g. while GUI Gus has 
>> just gotten
>> to picture 4, only 996 more to go!
>>
>
> Visual studio has macros. Ctrl-Shift-R, do your repetitive task,
> Ctrl-Shift-R, then hit Ctrl-P and it'll repeat what you did as 
> many times
> as you like.
> I use this all the time. I barely touch the mouse in VS, and 
> GUI isn't very
> good.

But can the macro feature actually figure out which files you
want to rotate (as in the above example).  If you still have
interact with the File Open Dialog 1000 times are you in any
better shape? Even if you have a shortcut to the other steps?