Select all running shapes

• Editor.Shapes.ConnectShapesList
• Editor.Shapes.SelectAllShapes
• ActionScript.SetProperty.Boolean

• Editor.Shapes.ProgrammerShapes.Empty
• Editor.Shapes.EditShapesEmpty
• Editor.Shapes.EditingPlaybackShapes

• conditional steps, see Control Structures

The Editor.Shapes.ConnectShapesRunning function is poorly named as the only thing that it does is determine whether there are any running shapes or not.

You need to do something like this (which is equivalent to pressing Connect > Shape > Shape):

SelectAllShapes.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<avolites.macros xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="Avolites.Menus.xsd">
 
  <macro id="Avolites.Macros.SelectAllShapes" name="Select All Shapes">
    <sequence>
      <step>Editor.Shapes.ConnectShapesList()</step>
      <step condition="!Editor.Shapes.ProgrammerShapes.Empty">Editor.Shapes.SelectAllShapes()</step>
      <step condition="!Editor.Shapes.EditShapesEmpty">
        ActionScript.SetProperty.Boolean("Editor.Shapes.EditingPlaybackShapes", true)
      </step>
    </sequence>
  </macro>
 
</avolites.macros>

This explains the functional steps within the sequence. For all the other XML details please refer to Formats and syntax

• Editor.Shapes.ConnectShapesList() gets all running shapes
• Editor.Shapes.SelectAllShapes() then selects all shapes if there are any
• ActionScript.SetProperty.Boolean(“Editor.Shapes.EditingPlaybackShapes”, true) commands that playback shapes can be edited if there are any

• make this macro available
• fire the macro to select all running shapes for editing