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macro.run runs a macro as one undo step ("Run Macro: <name>"); an error
at any step rolls everything back and names the step and its path (3,
2.1 inside a Repeat, 4.then.1 inside an If). It works in four parts:
- Policy (macro_policy). File, app, window, automate and macro commands
and Undo and Redo never run in a macro. Reading or writing files
(data.getData, data.fromTextCsv, insert.picture, Page Layout
Background, or an export with a path) needs the command in the
macro's permissions and the person's approval. A macro in a workbook
opened from a file asks before it runs. Approval holds for the
session until the macro's content changes; it is asked for with the
new EngineError::Approve and given with approve: true. A step that
would open a dialog or a web page fails instead.
- Inputs. Each declared input is bound (given, its default, or the
selection for the first one), whole columns shrink to the used range,
and the shape and column types are checked with messages that name
the cells: "Input column 2 (Amount) must hold numbers; C4 holds text".
- Footprint. Unless the macro may overwrite, it first runs in dry-run
mode on the real workbook inside an undo group that is rolled back,
with the session's clipboard, journal, windows and the document's
trust put back. CellStore::diff on every sheet, plus the cells
commands wrote (DocState::touched), sheets and objects, gives what it
would write outside its inputs; cells that only recalculated do not
count. Writing over data, deleting a sheet or deleting an object is a
conflict: ask (the new EngineError::Confirm, so programmatic runs fail
unless they pass onConflict or overwrite), fail, overwrite, or shift
the data down or right with Insert Cells and check again. A step that
would fail, for example past the edge of the sheet, fails the run
before anything changes. File steps and Solver stop the dry run early
and are reported.
- Steps run on a machine with an explicit frame stack: Repeat over the
rows or columns of a range with Row or Column bound, If on one cell
with Excel's comparisons, and Stop, which keeps the changes or rolls
them back. A run executes at most 100,000 steps within a time limit
(60 s by default, timeLimit to change; the web build has no clock, so
only the step limit applies there).
macro.check reports the bound inputs, the output anchor, the approval
needed, the footprint and the conflicts without changing anything;
nothing from an unapproved macro runs, not even as a dry run.