WinVideo Knowledge Base - Macro Language

WinVideo macro language was created to create extensions on your WinVideo installation. Any WinVideo function can be modified by external macro language.
For example, when a member strips the card on the reader, WinVideo calls a function called processUserBarcode containining instructions to handle card informations from member. If WinVideo find an external macro called "processUserBarcode.wvs", it will process the code in the .wvs file instead of its processUserBarcode internal function.
This is a very powerful WinVideo option: using macro language you can customize large part of WinVideo routines.
Macro functions (if they exist) are loaded every time you start WinVideo.

Is My WinVideo running external macro language functions?

You can easily check it by looking at the version number: it it ends with "!" character, it means your WinVideo is executing external macro language functions.
Macro language is located in the your server /external subdirectory and macro language files have extension: .wvs (WinVideo Script). For example, if your server is located on //web/data/server, the WinVideo macro language directory is: //web/server/data/server/external.

Who wrote the macro language files I found in my /external server directory?

Usually WinVideo macro language functions are created by technical assistance people from manifacturer of your dispenser / selector robots.
WinVideo Team (the author of WinVideo software) does not include any macro language function by default. Macro language files published by WinVideo Team can be found at this address: http://forum.winvideo.net/index.php/board,40.0.html and are always open source: it means you can check the source code before running it.

What does macro i found in my /external directory contain?

If you try to open a *.wvs file with, for example, Windows notepad, you will see unreadable code. You must not use an editor to find the content of a macro file.
WinVideo Team offers to you a very powerful feature to read the source code of a macro (*.wvs) file. You cannot modify its content, but you can read the content and also delete/rename it if you do not agree with the content.

How to show the macro source code

I am a software programmer, need tech info on WinVideo Macro Language

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