addon to share macros?

[Nicbennett]

Anyone know of an addon that can take macros from my main char and copy it to my other 4? A plus would also be duplicating my actionbars across all 5 clients.

If this is completely out of the realm of possibility, does anyone know where the macros and bar configurations are stored in the wow directory? perhaps if I exited the clients I could just copy and paste?

[DLoweinc]

if you are running 5 copies on the same PC you should use the symbolic linking of your wow directory.

if you are using different PC's, I dont' know of a macro that does that. you could do it via a batchfile or script though (not that i could write one quickly for you)

[Deekhay]

I usually copy everything inside:

Wow/wtf/account/accountname

Except for the realms where toon data is stocked.

I copy it to the desired target accountname

I log the toons I want to copy to.
I log off and delete all except their name dir (I think you can just create this dir and skip this process though).

I go to:

Wow/wtf/account/accountname/maintoonname

Copy everything inside.

Paste it at:

Wow/wtf/account/accountname/alttoonname

It works at almost 100%. I use Macaroon now and everything is much easier.

Hope I could help.

[DgtlSorcrs]

It may be technically possible to have an addon pass macro info as there are commands in the WOW API to run a given string of text as one. However, the addon author needs to be super careful that they don't open you up to someone else being able to make you run arbitrary macro code.

The easiest way for me is just to do a /script BackupMacros(); command, then take the resulting file from the wtf folder, copy it to the receiving PC and do /script RestoreMacros(); command to load from the text.

I believe this funcitonality was added when they went away from storing macros in files on pcs - it essentially lets wow write out / read in the same type of macro file it used to use, but in an on-demand basis.

[moog]

I achieved this with Macaroon, setting up the bars and the macros within those buttons as desired on Char A and then copying the Macaroon*.lua files from WoW\WTF\Account\accountname\server\CharA\SavedVari ables into the SavedVariables directory for Chars B, C and D.

http://www.wowinterface.com/downloads/info10636-Macaroon.html

[pengwynman]

i pretty much just copy and paste, or hit my DNP override button when making macros.

off-topic question, does anyone ever get the urge to reach for their MUTE button when typing on the forums? i know i do :P