Moving macros in game into ISBoxer.

[Vociferate]

I've been looking over threads and wiki's on here as well as ISBoxer's forums. And either I have overlooked it, or I simply can't find it.

Now, I am tired of moving my keys and macros every time I get a new addon or UI or patch... Etc... I don't need to know what the hotkeys are on the screen, so I really want to get them incorporated to ISBoxer for easy changes and updates.

Can someone explain how I do this?

[Ualaa]

If you were to make a mapped key.

You would give it a hotkey.
Then click the 1, below steps in the bottom left pane.
In the right pane there are actions.

Right click and go Keystroke Actions > Warcraft Macro Action.

That takes you to a screen where you can make macros.
You need to assign a unique keybind for the macro.
I don't use IS Boxer macros much, but have used the same keybinding as my hotkey before.

The macro window doesn't suffer the 255 character limitation that wow macros do.
And you can check the boxes to return to previous target.
Or to assist the active character first, etc.
You can also use {FTL} as an argument, /target {FTL} will target the character whose window the key press originated in.

Once you're done, export.

You will have whatever macro on the keybind you chose.
You won't have a warcraft macro, nor an icon or a cooldown timer on the macro button, etc.
But you can copy/paste your macros much easier.
And you could logically place them into keymaps, and drag that keymap with the macros already made onto a new team.

[Vociferate]

So if I have my DK Setup:

Spam Button 1 - Down
Assist
IWT
Howling Blast - Keybind F10

Spam Button 1 - Up
HB - F10
HB - Shift + F10
HB - Ctrl + F10
FS - Alt + F10
FS - Alt + Ctrl + F10
NS - Ctrl + Shift + Alt + F10
BS - Ctrl + Shift + F10

I could change them to do the macro in Game Helpers as:

/cast Howling Blast - Keybind F10
/cast Spell - Keybind Shift + F10

Is that how I would do it?

[Ualaa]

I would probably make a macro action for each spell.

So instead of multiple Keystroke Actions on release.
It would be multiple Do Mapped Key actions, where each mapped key was an IS Boxer macro action.

Spam 1
Step 1 (Down)
- FTL Assist Me, Target: Current Window
- Send IWT keybind to Target: Group (all of) Melee ATG
- Do mapped key action - Howling Blast, Target: Group (all of) DK's

Spam 1
Step 2 (Up)
- Do Mapped Key Action - Howling Blast, Target: Group (all of) DK's
- Do Mapped Key Action - Frost Strike, Target: Group (all of) DK's
- Etc

Then your warcraft macros, within IS Boxer:

Howling Blast mapped key.
Keystroke Actions > Warcraft Macro Action
/Cast Howling Blast

You wouldn't need assist in the macros, because the mapped key is doing it already on Key Down, which you'll be spamming.

My macros don't reside within IS Boxer for the most part.
If anyone has a better approach, feel free to pipe in.