FTL System using Action Bar Page

Hi.
I just wanted to share my idea of an FTL system.
My issue with /click EMAAssistMaster is that changing leader don't work in combat.
You could use /focus on your main (except on classic but soon on TBC), but if you do that, you lose the ability to use focus for anything else.

I made a video, but my english is terrible, really sorry about that, please do a better video if you like the idea :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4hlsbpkN28


So, with action bar page, you don't have this kind of limitations, if you set your page 2 to your first follower and set all action prefix with /assist Follower2 /cast spell, you just have to change the action bar page (with the keybind in the Wow UI) and that's just work.

The issue is that will take you a lot of time and you have a limited number of macro availiable.
That's why i use this addon : https://www.wowinterface.com/downloa...36-Neuron.html

And i made a little modification (it's really dirty, i have 0 skill as a lua programmer) to make it work with EMA and simplify the macro writing :
#EMAPAGE copy the base macro to all pages
#AEMA get replaced by /assist <YourEmaCharacter>
#FEMA get replaced by /follow <YourEmaCharacter>

ACTIONBUTTON.lua :

Code:

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function ACTIONBUTTON:SetType()


    self:ClearButton(true)


    SecureHandler_OnLoad(self)


    if self.class ~= "flyout" then
        self:SetupEvents()
    end


    self:ParseAndSanitizeMacro()


    self:SetAttribute("type", "macro")
    self:SetAttribute("*macrotext*", self.macro)


    self:SetScript("PostClick", function(self, mousebutton) self:PostClick(mousebutton) end)
    self:SetScript("OnReceiveDrag", function(self, preclick) self:OnReceiveDrag(preclick) end)
    self:SetScript("OnDragStart", function(self, mousebutton) self:OnDragStart(mousebutton) end)


    --this is to allow for the correct releasing of the button when dragging icons off of the bar
    --we need to hook to the WorldFrame OnReceiveDrag and OnMouseDown so that we can "let go" of the spell when we drag it off the bar
    if not Neuron:IsHooked(WorldFrame, "OnReceiveDrag") then
        Neuron:HookScript(WorldFrame, "OnReceiveDrag", function() ACTIONBUTTON:WorldFrame_OnReceiveDrag() end)
    end
    if not Neuron:IsHooked(WorldFrame, "OnMouseDown") then
        Neuron:HookScript(WorldFrame, "OnMouseDown", function() ACTIONBUTTON:WorldFrame_OnReceiveDrag() end)
    end


    self:SetScript("OnAttributeChanged", function(self, name, value) self:OnAttributeChanged(name, value) end)
    self:SetScript("OnEnter", function(self, ...) self:OnEnter(...) end)
    self:SetScript("OnLeave", function(self, ...) self:OnLeave(...) end)


    self:SetAttribute("overrideID_Offset", 156)
    self:SetAttribute("vehicleID_Offset", 132)




                           
    --This is so that hotkeypri works properly with priority/locked buttons
    self:WrapScript(self, "OnShow", [[
            for i=1,select('#',(":"):split(self:GetAttribute("hotkeys"))) do
                self:SetBindingClick(self:GetAttribute("hotkeypri"), select(i,(":"):split(self:GetAttribute("hotkeys"))), self:GetName())
            end
            ]])


    self:WrapScript(self, "OnHide", [[
            if not self:GetParent():GetAttribute("concealed") then
                for key in gmatch(self:GetAttribute("hotkeys"), "[^:]+") do
                    self:ClearBinding(key)
                end
            end
            ]])
           


    emanumberchar = 0
    for characterOrder, characterName in EMAApi.TeamListOrdered() do
        local removestring = "-"..GetNormalizedRealmName()
        emanumberchar = emanumberchar + 1
        characterName = string.gsub(characterName,removestring,"")
        self:SetAttribute("ema-paged"..characterOrder, characterName)
        --print("SET ema-paged"..characterOrder)
    end
    self:SetAttribute("ema-homestate", self:GetAttribute("ema-paged1"))
    self:SetAttribute("emanumberchar", emanumberchar)
    myname, myrealm = UnitName("player")
    self:SetAttribute("emamyname",myname)
   


   


    self:SetAttribute("_childupdate",
            [[


                if message then


                    local msg = (":"):split(message)


                    if msg:find("vehicle") then


                        if not self:GetAttribute(msg.."-actionID") then
                            self:SetAttribute("type", "action")
                            self:SetAttribute("*action*", self:GetAttribute("barPos")+self:GetAttribute("vehicleID_Offset"))
                        end


                        self:SetAttribute("HasActionID", true)
                        self:Show()


                    elseif msg:find("possess") then


                        if not self:GetAttribute(msg.."-actionID") then
                            self:SetAttribute("type", "action")
                            self:SetAttribute("*action*", self:GetAttribute("barPos")+self:GetAttribute("vehicleID_Offset"))
                        end


                        self:SetAttribute("HasActionID", true)
                        self:Show()


                    elseif msg:find("override") then


                        if not self:GetAttribute(msg.."-actionID") then
                            self:SetAttribute("type", "action")
                            self:SetAttribute("*action*", self:GetAttribute("barPos")+self:GetAttribute("overrideID_Offset"))
                            self:SetAttribute("HasActionID", true)
                        end


                        self:SetAttribute("HasActionID", true)
                        self:Show()


                    else


                        if not self:GetAttribute(msg.."-actionID") then


                            self:SetAttribute("type", "macro")
                           
                           
                           
                            --debutreplace
                            local macrotxt = self:GetAttribute(msg.."-macro_Text")
                           
                            if msg=="paged2" or msg=="paged3" or msg=="paged4" or msg=="paged5" then
                                local pagenums = string.gsub(msg,"paged","")
                                local b = tonumber(pagenums) ~= nil
                                if b then
                                    local pagenum = tonumber(pagenums)
                                    local numchar = self:GetAttribute("emanumberchar")
                                    local homepagemacro = self:GetAttribute("homestate-macro_Text")
                                    if homepagemacro and homepagemacro:find("#EMAPAGE") then
                                        if pagenum <= numchar then
                                            macrotxt = homepagemacro
                                        end                                       
                                    end
                                end
                            end
                            local namefromema = self:GetAttribute("ema-"..msg)
                            if namefromema and #namefromema > 0 then
                                if macrotxt and #macrotxt > 0 then
                                    macrotxt = string.gsub(macrotxt,"#EMAPAGE", "")
                                    if namefromema == self:GetAttribute("emamyname") then
                                        macrotxt = string.gsub(macrotxt,"#FEMA", "")
                                        macrotxt = string.gsub(macrotxt,"#AEMA", "")                               
                                    else
                                        macrotxt = string.gsub(macrotxt,"#FEMA", "/follow "..namefromema)
                                        macrotxt = string.gsub(macrotxt,"#AEMA", "/assist "..namefromema)                               
                                    end
                                    macrotxt = string.gsub(macrotxt,"#EMA", namefromema)
                                   
                                end
                            end
                            self:SetAttribute("*macrotext*", macrotxt)
                            --finreplace
                           
                           
                            --self:SetAttribute("*macrotext*", self:GetAttribute(msg.."-macro_Text"))
                           




                            --if there is a macro present, or if showGrid is enabled, show the button. If not, hide it. This works in combat.
                            if (self:GetAttribute("*macrotext*") and #self:GetAttribute("*macrotext*") > 0) or self:GetAttribute("showGrid") then
                                self:Show()
                            else
                                self:Hide()
                            end


                            self:SetAttribute("HasActionID", false)
                        else
                            self:SetAttribute("HasActionID", true)
                        end
                    end


                    self:SetAttribute("activestate", msg)


                end


            ]])


    --this is our rangecheck timer for each button. Every 0.5 seconds it queries if the button is usable
    --this doubles our CPU usage, but it really helps usability quite a bit
    --this is a direct replacement to the old "onUpdate" code that did this job


    if self:TimeLeft(self.rangeTimer) == 0 then
        self.rangeTimer = self:ScheduleRepeatingTimer("UpdateUsable", 0.5)
    end


    self:UpdateAll()
    self:UpdateFlyout(true)
    self:SetSkinned()
end

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