Macro Installation

Two steps are required to add a macro to an existing option tree:

1. Copy the macro file into the mcr directory of the given option tree. For example, to add mymacro.mm to the UCL option tree, copy it to the $NMROOT/nxm/ucl/mcr/ directory.
2. Add an entry for the macro in the commands.cnf file for the option tree. The simplest way is to use the UPDATE command (see HELP UPDATE for details).

Once you add a macro to an option tree, it can be edited in place without running UPDATE again (unless the input parameters change).

Since NeXtMidas uses Just-In-Time compilation for all macros, you never need to compile a macro. In most cases, it is unnecessary to restart NeXtMidas after a macro is edited because it recompiles each time a user calls it from the command line.