Click macro optimization addon - does this exist?

[wyofiddler]

Basic idea: a simple addon that just shows a little colored box or dot or something that flashes rhythmically twice per second like an ingame metronome to optimize my click macro spamming for dps and tank.

Does this exist already? I have no idea how to write addons or I would be tempted to give it a shot. Does blizz allow something like this, since it's not actually performing any action?

the idea came out of killing my iPhone battery every day with a metronome app that flashes the screen, but that was not ideal since it is down on the desk far from my center of focus when running my team.

Any thoughts or suggestions on stuff already out that does this would be awesome, thanks in advance for the great ideas you all contribute around here.

[EaTCarbS]

Just learn to keep a rhythm =P

This actually sounds like an interesting concept; 'Could help out quite a few people here.

[wyofiddler]

I first thought of this because I tested my team dps on the dummies and found I got a 10-20% improvement when I had a metronome running an audible click and flash versus trying to just time my dps spam off the GCD.

It doesn't seem terribly complex to write, I just don't know how to write addons..... Yet :)

[HPAVC]

Dupe thread.

Write a small application, send that application all your keystrokes via the multiplexer in addition to the normal window (not all that great for latency) or peek at the key events / resource ready themselves if you are able.

Have that small application grind on the rate of button mashing. You just need to look at the key log, and if the key stroke up/down is heavily repeated then start pacing, much like a cadence tool. You don't want to do raw velocity or it will start pacing your normal sustained typing strokes.

[MiRai]

http://www.metronomeonline.com/

[wyofiddler]

@ HPVAC:

What you describe sounds like it's looking into my gameplay and finding how fast i'm spamming based on what I am doing ingame... My idea was to get a button that flashes automatically twice per second so that I can see the flashing button and try to match my spam rate to its flash rate.

@ Fenril:

I found a couple websites like the one you refer to, and they all get the job done. The audible click works really well for me, but my idea here was to keep sound options open for music or movies while farming dailies or grinding heroics, and instead have a flashing dot/button in the game interface somewhere.




Dang...

So I just spent some time looking into writing addons, and going through the HelloWorld demo addon setup and stuff to make it work. I am not a programmer by any stretch of the term, and my respect for people like Jafula who write addons that actually work and do a ton of different stuff has increased many, many times over.

One thing I still don't know: are addons allowed to perform periodically repeating functions automatically, like flashing a button repeatedly until I turn it off? I haven't seen this in any addons before and I want to be as sure as I can be that this function doesn't violate the rules we live by (ToS/EULA)

[Ualaa]

If an addon lets you do it, it is using a function Blizzard put into the API.
Blizzard has been known to remove functionality from the API, when an addon does something they don't like.

So if you can write it, it is currently ok.
And will be, until they change what an addon can do.

[luxlunae]

I'm looking into configing powa auras to do this, let me poke around.

[luxlunae]

Ok
power auras has a "pulsing" or "flashing" option... so you can just make a small aura for a buff you always have on your main and position it wherever it is visually convenient.

You can change the animation speed by % if you need it to flash faster