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Set variable

Remember a value for later actions.

Where
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Set variable: the name lastPress gets the value {{x}},{{y}} on {{pageId}}, with the scope Everywhere.

Set variable stores a value under a name. Later actions use it as a {{placeholder}}, and conditions can check it. Use it to remember a state (which scene you picked last, whether a mode is on) or to pass a value from one button to another.

Settings

Section titled “Settings”
Setting What it does
Name The variable’s name. Suggestions show names you already use.
Value What to store. Type {{ to pick a variable; placeholders are replaced when the action runs.
Scope This run: only this macro and the buttons it calls with Run another button. Everywhere: shared by all macros.

How it runs

Section titled “How it runs”
  • The action is instant. The value is stored as text.
  • Shared (Everywhere) variables are saved in the config folder (variables.json) and are still there after Lunchpad restarts. This run variables are gone when the macro ends.
  • When a name exists in both scopes, the macro sees this run’s value.
  • The built-in names velocity, velocity01, pressure, pressure01, x, y and pageId always win in placeholders. Do not name your own variables like that.
  • An empty name does nothing. Spaces around the name are ignored.
  • Writing fader.<name> with Everywhere moves that fader, for example fader.volume to 50. See faders.

Example

Section titled “Example”

Remember which scene a button picked, so another button can switch back to it:

  1. On each scene button: Switch scene followed by Set variable lastScene = Gameplay (Everywhere).
  2. On a “back” button: Switch scene with the scene name {{lastScene}}.
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