Allow extra modifiers

[shadewalker]

can anyone explain to me what the following options do in ISBOXER? These can be found in the Game Helper / macro section. i searched the site and the ISBOXER wiki with no luck.

"allow extra modifiers"

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[Lax]

The World of Warcraft macro system has a way of setting optional modifiers in your macros, like [mod:alt] or [mod:ctrl], which lets you basically combine a few different macros into one.

If you check one of those boxes in the WoW Macro Library to mean that they are "allowed" for this macro, then when you use a Named WoW Macro Action for this macro the boxes will be available for checking. The macro itself "allows" the optional modifiers, then the Named WoW Macro Action "uses" the optional modifiers. This lets you select one of the "few different macros in one".

This is basically how "FTL" is done -- one macro is used to determine which guy to follow or assist, using the mod and nomod switches that are part of WoW's macro system.

[shadewalker]

Thanks LAX, this is starting to make a lot more sense to me now.

One last question, Can the modifiers passed by the Named WoW Macro Action be changed in real time depending on the modifier keys I am holding down at the time? or should i create a separate Mapped Key for each modifier key / key press combination?

[Lax]

You don't have to use a named wow macro action, it's just a hotkey in the game. If you want to turn on Repeater and manually press whatever key combination you want, go for it. For example if you turn on Repeater and press Left Shift+F11, everyone should /follow the guy in slot 1. That's because follow is on F11, and the left shift modifier means slot 1 in the macro.

The reason I say that is because the answer is technically yes, you can change the modifiers, but you're not broadcasting your modifiers to the other windows unless you turn on Repeater or set up a Hotkey that uses the modifiers and specifically broadcasts it. So if you wanted to do that to a macro in the current window, all you'd have to do is turn on the Hold option for the Mapped Key that uses it, and you can hold extra modifiers. (Without the Hold option, only the modifiers specified by the Action are used!) For the other windows, you would have to broadcast the extra modifier.

It'd likely be cleanest to set up your extra Mapped Keys for each combination instead of trying to blanket-broadcast the modifiers (which might cause problems if you wanted to press alt+1 and have it just send 1)

[shadewalker]

Thanks again LAX. I have to agree that it seems cleaner now to make the extra mapped keys.