If you are receiving the message "Macro select failed to open" then that macro did not open during the @macro command. If it ran, it was because the macro you recorded was still the active macro. Sesame adds the extension ".mac" to macro files - try invoking the macro with: @macro("select.mac").

Sesame crashing probably has more to do with the content of the macro, then to do with running a macro by itself. By running a macro during SBasic (using @Macro) and using it to open another application - you inadvertantly closed the form that contained the SBasic you were running - thereby stopping the SBasic program you were running suddenly - the @macro routine had no place to return to - when it returned.

I'll look into it.

Is the macro file "select.mac" in your "Start In" directory? If not, try specifying the full path to the macro file:

@macro("c:\Sesame\Data\select.mac")

Substitute the actual path for the path specified above. Unlike Q&A, Sesame's macros are standalone files. This allows them to be used generically in multiple applications, allows the user to store them in a central location, again - for multiple applications, and also allows them to be used on startup, before an application has been loaded.

As to using macros to create a "custom menu" - you may want to look at the SBasic command "SelectTreeItem" - it may be what you need.