hello,
 
hopefully someone can help me. I havent had to create macros or used macros for over a year and have forgotten some of the basics.
 
the couple of main ones want to start with are:
 
-what to have a macro where it sets to a certain Layer and then starts drawing a line.
 
-again sets to a certain Layer and then does a hatch. so what to click the button and then click in a box and the hatch i want is allready preset.
 
Hopefully that makes sense.
 
thanks.

Macros cannot make use of dialog boxes so you will have to use the command line version of the commands you want to use.  For example, here is a macro that will start a line on a newly defined layer called "pipe".
 
^C^C-layer;make;pipe;color;red;;;line;endpoint;

ok thanks for that but had figured it out again.