I wanted to write a couple of ChemStation macros but after spending about 3 hours trying to make it do what I wanted to, I'm getting pretty frustrated. Especially because I think what I want it to do is fairly simple.

I would like to run a macro on the ChemStation software that would load a AIA file (.cdf) and display the information into the software. i.e.; I can manually go to File - Import - Load AIA file, select the file and the chromatogram is displayed. can't seem to make the software do the same through commands... I would then like to copy to the data file to a specific folder (different than the original one).

Anything that could help me to figure this out...? I know there is a command LoadAIA FromDirectory, [Filename], ToReg but I can't seem to get to use it properly - I can't seem to get it to actually display the spectra!

The ChemStation version we are using is GC ChemStation A.10.02 [1757]. The data originally is collected by a third-party software from a SFC (SFCXYDataSets), which are then re-processed by ChemStation to give the .cdf files. I would just like them to be automatically loaded into ChemStation for viewing (and possibly copied to another directory).

Any help would be *greatly* appreciated.

Thanks,

Roxanne.