Jamba Macros

[Ozbert]

Having just returned to multiboxing after a couple of years away, I've been noticing some new features in Jamba that weren't there last time I used it. One of these is the Macro module.

I've had a read through the information Jafula posted (http://www.dual-boxing.com/threads/24694-Switchable-macro-sets-with-variables-Addon-Jamba-Macro) about the macro functionality but I'm struggling to get it working as intended.

First of all, it was stated in Jafula's post that keys bound directly to macros would take precedence over the standard key bindings. So, I've attempted to make a simple FollowFocus macro in Jamba, which just does "/follow focus" and bound F to it. I then pushed it out to all the toons in my group. When I hit F though, it still seems to be trying to assist target, which is the default WoW key binding. I also tried unbinding F in the standard Wow bindings, but the macro still isn't invoked. What am I doing wrong here?


Another idea I had was to create generic DPS macros similar to the following:


/click [target=focustarget] ActionButton1

This macro would then be bound to '1', which should take precedence over the standard binding of 1 to action bar button1. When I hit 1, instead of the triggering the standard action bar button, it would instead trigger my macro which would /click the action bar button but with [target=focustarget] set.

This way, I could then drag standard spells and abilities to my action bar but still have the focus target set when use them. Should this work the way I expect?

Thanks.

[Ozbert]

Still struggling.

I'm not using jamba-macro for any of it's more advanced features - like generating macro sets with variable substitutions. I'm just using it to centrally manage simple macros across all toons in my team.

I've just created some more macros as follows:

Name: FocusToonA

/focus Teslea

and bound CTRL+F8 to it.

There are also macros FocusToon[E,I,O,U] bound to CTRL+[F9,F10,F11,F12]

These have all been pushed out to all toons, but the key bindings have no effect. Also, "/click JMB_FocusToonA" does nothing.

See screenshot (http://www.b0rken.org/~jason/wow/jamba-macro1.jpg).

Am I completely misunderstanding how this module is supposed to work?

[Ozbert]

Think I've worked it out. I needed to create an empty variable set and assign to my macro sets. Then, the focustarget and follow macros built properly on each toon and now work.

Can't get my actionbar macros working yet though.

EDIT: Actions bar macros not working doesn't seem to be anything to do with Jamba. My toons all have Lightning Bolt on action bar button 1. But, '/click [@focustarget] ActionButton1' doesn't do anything except in the client where I type the command. I guess I'll have to make explicit spell casting macros.

EDIT2: Seems that /click doesn't accept the same modifiers as /cast, in spite of what what various macro references say:


The same syntax and options as cast (http://www.wowwiki.com/MACRO_cast) can also be used with click. E.g. /click [btn:1] ActionButton1; ActionButton2, /click [target=mouseover,exists] ActionButton1; ActionButton2, etc.

'/click ActionButton1' works on whatever I have targetted. '/click [@focustarget] ActionButton1' does not work on whatever my focustarget is.

[MiRai]

EDIT2: Seems that /click doesn't accept the same modifiers as /cast, in spite of what what various macro references say:

'/click ActionButton1' works on whatever I have targetted. '/click [@focustarget] ActionButton1' does not work on whatever my focustarget is.
That sounds about right since /click is different from /cast and /use. Just make the macro:


/target [@focustarget]
/click ActionButton1