M6 Add-On

[MiRai]

This seems to be a particularly interesting add-on for creating macros with. It was created by the author of OPie and MasterPlan, and was released earlier today.

http://www.curse.com/addons/wow/m6x

https://www.townlong-yak.com/m6/
https://www.townlong-yak.com/m6/conditionals
https://www.townlong-yak.com/m6/macros

[JohnGabriel]

Here are some conditionals I consider special.

moving
We can check in a macro if our follow is broken.

ready
We can check if spell is off cooldown, no more castsequence hangs

have (also known and level)
I don't know what I'd use it for, but you can make class macros in isboxer that work for any level if you can check for items.

So yeah I would try this, bet its most useful for PvP teams.

[MiRai]

Indeed, as well as /qsequence:

/qsequence can be used to run through a comma-separated list of spells/items, each execution triggering the next entry on the list. Unlike /castsequence, it does not support reset=, and always advances to the next entry on the list, regardless of whether the current spell/item was successfully used.
It seems to do the same thing as GnomeSequencer in that sense.

[Wubsie]

Seems very good indeed and will definitely help with some of the fine tuning I've been trying to do to my PVE team. I do also like that it's actually configured ingame instead hopping in and out the game to edit a file like with Gnomesequencer.

[MiRai]

Someone should slap Lax around to add in these special conditionals to ISBoxer's built-in macro helper. I'm sure foxlit would be nice enough to just let him borrow the Lua code, so it should be an easy copy and paste. >_>

[ebony]

Someone should slap Lax around to add in these special conditionals to ISBoxer's built-in macro helper. I'm sure foxlit would be nice enough to just let him borrow the Lua code, so it should be an easy copy and paste. >_>

i was looking at the code for "special conditionals" but there not really that special there more conditionals and its like why has no-one done this before!

[jrkilroy]

Anyone have any luck using M6? Also, if you load the M6 addon, can you place the M6 Macro text in an ISBoxer WoW Macro?

[JohnGabriel]

The [flag] conditional looks very powerful.


[flag] is interesting because it provides you with memory in the conditional environment, allowing macros to change each other's behaviour in a very flexible way.

A limited equivalent exists in the default set of conditionals as well: the [bar:1/2/.../6]conditional can have its state modified using the /changeactionbar command; you could think of this as a miniature flag, limited to taking one of six values. Depending on which action bar is active, a macro could then choose to do different things. [flag]basically provides an unlimited number similar conditionals, each of which can be set to any number of values.

/qsequence A, B, C is in some sense a special case of [flag] and /cast; it could instead be written as:
/cast [noflag:foo] A; [flag:foo=1] B; C
/cycleflag foo=3

Which is overkill if all you're trying to get is /qsequence, but allows you to manipulate the sequence state directly instead of requiring it to always advance: you could make the sequence advance only when you press a different button, have a third button run the sequence in reverse, or skip some parts of the sequence if you're not in an arena, and so on.

[Mokoi]

[flag] is interesting because it provides you with memory in the conditional environment, allowing macros to change each other's behaviour in a very flexible way.

A limited equivalent exists in the default set of conditionals as well: the [bar:1/2/.../6]conditional can have its state modified using the /changeactionbarcommand; you could think of this as a miniature flag, limited to taking one of six values. Depending on which action bar is active, a macro could then choose to do different things. [flag]basically provides an unlimited number similar conditionals, each of which can be set to any number of values.

/qsequence A, B, C is in some sense a special case of [flag] and /cast; it could instead be written as:
/cast [noflag:foo] A; [flag:foo=1] B; C
/cycleflag foo=3

Which is overkill if all you're trying to get is /qsequence, but allows you to manipulate the sequence state directly instead of requiring it to always advance: you could make the sequence advance only when you press a different button, have a third button run the sequence in reverse, or skip some parts of the sequence if you're not in an arena, and so on.

We need translation for this post, STAT!