Run another button

Run the actions of another button as part of this one.

Where

+ Add action›General›Run another button

Wait

Has a Wait switch: on, the next action starts once this one is done

Run another button runs the actions of a different button as if it were part of this one. Build a macro once and reuse it: a “Go live” button can run your “Starting soon” scene button and your “Mic on” button instead of copying their actions.

Settings

Setting	What it does
Page	Same page means the page of the button that is running. Or pick any page.
Column, Row	Where the other button sits: the same numbers the button editor shows in its title, counted from the bottom-left pad.
Run	Which of its lists to run: pressed actions, released actions, pressed, then released (both, one after the other), or held actions.

How it runs

• With Wait on, this macro waits until the other button’s actions have finished. With Wait off, they run alongside and this macro goes on right away.
• The other button’s actions share this run’s variables with the scope This run, and they get the same press force ({{velocity}}).
• Inside the other button’s actions, “this button” means that other button. Its pad shows as running while they run.
• Stopping this macro also stops the other button’s actions.
• If there is no button at that position, or it has no actions in the chosen list, nothing happens.
• If the other button has Repeat while held on and you run its pressed actions, they repeat until this macro is stopped.
• Buttons that run each other are cut off after 8 levels, so a button that runs itself cannot loop forever.

Example

A “Go live” button:

1. Run another button: Scenes page, the “Starting soon” button, pressed, then released.
2. Run another button: the “Mic on” button on the same page, pressed actions.
3. OBS & Streamlabs: stream, record, replay: start the stream.

Related

• Action lists — pressed, released and held actions
• Variables and placeholders — This run and Everywhere scopes
• Stop this macro