Automation Blocks Purge Memory & Disk Cache Script

[PFuerst]

Hey,

I've played around a bit more with Automation Blocks and created and simple scripts that displays all the Purge options and lets you execute them. I guess it is not the most elegant way to display all the options as well as create the flow but it does the job 🙂 I have attached it here. If you want to make it better or add something to it feel free to do so...

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[Mathias Moehl · Accepted solution]

Wow, that's amazing - thank you for sharing!

I added it to the Community Library now changed a few things in the tool.

This is your original code (with some remarks about what I changed):

 

And this is my modified version:

 

This is what I changed in detail:
1) I replaced your else if conditions with independent if blocks. That way, if you enable several checkboxes, also all the corresponding menu commands are executed.
2) I added some "write to console" messages such that you can also see in the console, which purge operations actually have been performed.
3) I replaced the conditions  like "All Memory equals true" by just "All memory". This is probably a matter of taste. They mean exactly the same - my variant is a bit more compact, but yours is maybe even better to understand. So not sure if this change really improved the code, but I thought it does not hurt to show that you can save a few blocks here.

[Mathias Moehl]

This is definitely a very nice example for showing how easily you can create user interfaces with AB.

You find the tool in the community library at
Project/Purge/Purge Dialog with All Purge Options.xml
Thanks a lot again for sharing it with the community 🙂

[PFuerst]

1) I replaced your else if conditions with independent if blocks. That way, if you enable several checkboxes, also all the corresponding menu commands are executed.
2) I added some "write to console" messages such that you can also see in the console, which purge operations actually have been performed.
3) I replaced the conditions  like "All Memory equals true" by just "All memory". This is probably a matter of taste. They mean exactly the same - my variant is a bit more compact, but yours is maybe even better to understand. So not sure if this change really improved the code, but I thought it does not hurt to show that you can save a few blocks here.

Cool thanks for taking the time to take a look at the code.

1) That is the better solution. I didn't know that the if else would limit it to just on entry. Good to know 🙂

2) That's a handy feature.

3) Good to know those shortcuts. I haven't done a lot of coding in the last years, tried it a few times but faild :-D, so Automation Blocks is amazing so that I can play around with the blocks without writing all the code myself.

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