Switchable macro sets with variables - Addon - Jamba-Macro

Ok, so when the macros are built variables with the "all" tag will be used by everyone otherwise they will use a variable with a tag that the character has as well, correct?

Will try it tonight.

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Originally Posted by thinus

Ok, so when the macros are built variables with the "all" tag will be used by everyone otherwise they will use a variable with a tag that the character has as well, correct?

Will try it tonight.

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Yes.

As of 0.5c, you now can specify multiple macro sets.

The use command has change to just

/jamba-macro use

http://wow.jafula.com/images/extforu...crocontrol.png

is there any built in variables like for who is the master ?

(there is that annoying problem in wow macros (not jamba specific) that "party1" isn't the leader for the leader, I'd like to use jamba's notion of a master instead in a macro without hardcoding the current master in a variable)

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Originally Posted by Moorea

is there any built in variables like for who is the master ?

(there is that annoying problem in wow macros (not jamba specific) that "party1" isn't the leader for the leader, I'd like to use jamba's notion of a master instead in a macro without hardcoding the current master in a variable)

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Yes, you can use the tags in place of variables (master, slave). Please note that if the master changes, you will have to rebuild the macros for the macros to recognise and use the new master.

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Originally Posted by Jafula

Yes, you can use the tags in place of variables (master, slave).

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Ah nice !

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Please note that if the master changes, you will have to rebuild the macros for the macros to recognise and use the new master.

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Ah not so nice ! I suppose it has to do with blizzard security that can't get that changed / be dynamic to current master ?

hmm do you have an example, tried target=master and target=%master% and neither got replaced

edit: nvm it's #master# not %master% ! duh me !

Just few words...

FANTASTIC:D:D:D:D:D

I'm using jamba macro as macro generator not only for multi but for any situation.

Maybe a request , a macro export system to move easily the setup.
The push works but sometime is a trouble to move from different pc and accounts

Thanks for your great tool
:)

hi there jafula, frist thx for your awesome work with this addon

now to the point :P , i little new with macros and with your addon, i manage to set up the team, they do the follow they update anything i modify on the master, but i couldnt make macros work. let me told what i did, maybe you or another player could help me. My game its on spanish, but i check macros individualy, for examble on druid i type "/cast [target=calemon] Toque de sanación" and works, so isnt the diferent spelling between languajes.
i set this on core tags

http://img17.imageshack.us/img17/918...0610183134.jpg

i set those variables for chars and 1 for a healing to test it

http://img693.imageshack.us/img693/9...0610184825.jpg

and those are the macros

http://img693.imageshack.us/img693/4...0610185632.jpg

F1 for heal calemon, F2 for krunc and F3 for richart
the macro sets is "heals"

http://img707.imageshack.us/img707/6...0610185812.jpg

and well, dont work. any idea about why?

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Originally Posted by bellwar

hi there jafula, frist thx for your awesome work with this addon

now to the point :P , i little new with macros and with your addon, i manage to set up the team, they do the follow they update anything i modify on the master, but i couldnt make macros work. let me told what i did, maybe you or another player could help me. My game its on spanish, but i check macros individualy, for examble on druid i type "/cast [target=calemon] Toque de sanación" and works, so isnt the diferent spelling between languajes.
i set this on core tags

http://img17.imageshack.us/img17/918...0610183134.jpg

i set those variables for chars and 1 for a healing to test it

http://img693.imageshack.us/img693/9...0610184825.jpg

and those are the macros

http://img693.imageshack.us/img693/4...0610185632.jpg

F1 for heal calemon, F2 for krunc and F3 for richart
the macro sets is "heals"

http://img707.imageshack.us/img707/6...0610185812.jpg

and well, dont work. any idea about why?

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In the last screenshot, the macro section, you need to add the variable set Party to the heals macro. To do this type Party into the field Variable Set and press Enter.

Now you need to build the macros, to do this click the Build Macros (Team) button.

It should work now.

A note: you have a tag toon1 and a variable called toon1 (same with toon2 and toon3). You only need the tag on the toon, not the variable, so in your variable section, you could remove the toon1, toon2 and toon3 variables as long as your characters all had toonX tags.

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Originally Posted by talpax

Just few words...

FANTASTIC:D:D:D:D:D

I'm using jamba macro as macro generator not only for multi but for any situation.

Maybe a request , a macro export system to move easily the setup.
The push works but sometime is a trouble to move from different pc and accounts

Thanks for your great tool
:)

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I don't know how to do this easily without writing a third party program. Perhaps you could use the curse client as a premium member, it lets you copy addons (and I think settings) from one PC to another.

thx for the tips jafula. with your advices this seems to work ... shorta. Now when i press F1 from krunc (Slave,the druid) he cast healing touch on Calemon (pally, master), as intended. but nothing happen if i do it from master.

i try to use next one

/cast [target=#toon1#] #heal#
/cast [target=#toon1#] #pheal#

where "heal" is healing touch and "pheal" is divine light.

when i hit from pall, he heals himself with divine, but druid no nothing, when i cast from druid, druid heals but pally do nothing
the idea is when i use F1, i cast both, pally and druid healings on the pally. F2 do the same, for the druid, and F3 do the same, for the warlock, but somehow, keystrokes dont spread through slaves.
when i manage to do that, ill do the next step, make macros for nuke.

I did not read through all the posts following the OP, so I'm sorry if this has been addressed.

I want to be able to change the character a variable points to on the fly.

I use /click on my Paladins.

/click macro:

/click dps macro 1
/click dps macro 2
/click dps macro 3
/click heal tank macro
/stopcasting


Heal Tank Macro:

/cast [target="tank"] Flash of Light

I spam this and the tank is constantly healed whenever Art of War procs. I would like to be able to press a hotkey to change this target as I please, so I can continue spamming the same key, but instead spend the Art of War procs on another character.

Something like:

/cast [target=VARIABLE] Flash of Light

and

F1 -> VARIABLE = "Tank"
F2 -> VARIABLE = "Char2"
F3 -> VARIABLE = "Char3"

etc.

Can this be accomplished?

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Originally Posted by bellwar

thx for the tips jafula. with your advices this seems to work ... shorta. Now when i press F1 from krunc (Slave,the druid) he cast healing touch on Calemon (pally, master), as intended. but nothing happen if i do it from master.

i try to use next one

/cast [target=#toon1#] #heal#
/cast [target=#toon1#] #pheal#

where "heal" is healing touch and "pheal" is divine light.

when i hit from pall, he heals himself with divine, but druid no nothing, when i cast from druid, druid heals but pally do nothing
the idea is when i use F1, i cast both, pally and druid healings on the pally. F2 do the same, for the druid, and F3 do the same, for the warlock, but somehow, keystrokes dont spread through slaves.
when i manage to do that, ill do the next step, make macros for nuke.

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anyone know why?

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Originally Posted by bellwar

anyone know why?

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No instance of WoW can cause another instance of WoW to perform any action. As far as Blizzard knows your two accounts are two very different people. What you are asking is for 1 account to send a signal to another account and cause that other account to perform an action. While every single multiboxer here would love it if that was possible, the fact of the matter is that it is not. This has nothing to do with Jamba but is rather limitations put into WoW way back in some of the earliest patches. (There was a time you could whisper a raidmate and get a buff for instance, even in combat).

What you need is a keyboard broadcaster. You can use either hardware or software and there are tons of options in the other forums. I'd suggest going to the New Multiboxers & Support forum.

Hi there. I need a bit help with excluding one of my accounts from using Macro.

My party is currently 1pally tank + 4xele shammy. I created new variable "Tank" with value "pallyName". at macro, in tag field, i inserted "!Tank".

that doesnt work though; i'm almost sure i'm not using this right. can you correct me please on how to exclude my pally to use macro used to start attacking?

thank you!

Delete the variable, you don't need it the way you are using it. Go to the Tag section and select the Paladin. Add a tag there and for Tag name type "Tank". The macro will then work the way you want it.

Hi and thank you for your reply. When explaining about Tag section, which one did you meant?

Jamba > Macro or
Jamba > Macro: Macros (where i have my macros set?) or
Jamba > Macro: Variables? (i had my tank listed here)

sorry, i'm a bit confused here :/

None of the above. Jamba-Tags.

Totally different section!

Oh, and deleting the variable isn't an option - if you have that variable it will mess things up.

Variables are used like this:

Variable: healspell
Value: Greater Heal
Tag: Priest

Variable: healspell
Value: Holy Light
Tag: Paladin

/cast [@player] #healspell#

Now go to Tags - for your Paladin characters add the "Paladin" tag, and for your priest characters add the "Priest" tag. Now whenever you click that macro it will have the player heal themself.

Jamba-Tag is your friend. Learn it, use it, love it.
Recommended tags:
Tank
DPS
Healer
<Class> (Paladin, Shaman, Warrior, etc)
Follow1..5

Hope that helps.

I downloaded the newest version of Jamba after not having updated in months so first things first. Ilu Jaf :D

Now that that's done, has anyone had any luck with cast-sequences in jamba-macros. I'm trying to setup just one macro for all rogues but I think I might have to make five individual ones with the rogue names for tags. I'm thoroughly stumped so any help is appreciated :P

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Originally Posted by Tasty

I downloaded the newest version of Jamba after not having updated in months so first things first. Ilu Jaf :D

Now that that's done, has anyone had any luck with cast-sequences in jamba-macros. I'm trying to setup just one macro for all rogues but I think I might have to make five individual ones with the rogue names for tags. I'm thoroughly stumped so any help is appreciated :P

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This worked in all previous versions: http://www.dual-boxing.com/showpost....postcount=1513

Unfortunately, the latest update broke it. :( I'm trying to get Jafula to re-add the functionality, or at least see if anyone has any other suggestions. You should bug him too! ;)

Firstly I'm new to dual-boxing and consequently Jamba.
I like the look of it and have been looking at the macro ctrl sets in particular but i'm really struggling to see a point in them. For the most part it seems that it just emulates WoW's built in macro function and is more long winded. That is, I could write a simple macro via wow in a few seconds but it would take 2-3 times as long do write the same macro via Jamba
I've no doubt that from its popularity that it is a very good and worth while addon so i certainly think i'm just missing something.
So i'm wondering if someone could post some creative uses of Jamba's macro's that clearly shows how and why it is so much better and more useful that using the std wow macro function.

Secondly, I've been playing around with this and have made some macro's for my priest and they all work fine except Power Word: Shield. In my attempt to figure out why i also found that Power Word: Fortitude has the same issue. The issue being that nothing happens when i press the bound key.
Am wondering if this is an issue with ':' being used? And if so is there a way around this?

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Originally Posted by Oracle

Firstly I'm new to dual-boxing and consequently Jamba.
I like the look of it and have been looking at the macro ctrl sets in particular but i'm really struggling to see a point in them. For the most part it seems that it just emulates WoW's built in macro function and is more long winded. That is, I could write a simple macro via wow in a few seconds but it would take 2-3 times as long do write the same macro via Jamba
I've no doubt that from its popularity that it is a very good and worth while addon so i certainly think i'm just missing something.
So i'm wondering if someone could post some creative uses of Jamba's macro's that clearly shows how and why it is so much better and more useful that using the std wow macro function.

Secondly, I've been playing around with this and have made some macro's for my priest and they all work fine except Power Word: Shield. In my attempt to figure out why i also found that Power Word: Fortitude has the same issue. The issue being that nothing happens when i press the bound key.
Am wondering if this is an issue with ':' being used? And if so is there a way around this?

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Here is one example:

Imagine you are 5 boxing.

You have a healer (priest), a tank, and 3 dps. You set up macros to heal your tank (Bob), like /cast [@Bob] Greater Heal, /cast [@Bob] Flash Heal, etc for all your heals (quite a few).

Now you have a friend with their own tank (Tom). You want to play with your friend, so your Tank (Bob) drops group and you invite Tom to your group.

How is your priest going to heal Tom?

1. You do not use Jamba Macro - You are going to have to go and change all the macros to point to Tom.

2. You use Jamba Macro - You change the tank variable value from Bob to Tom, push settings and click the build macros button. Done. Of course, your macros were built like /cast [@#tank#] Greater Heal and you had a tank variable with an initial value of Bob.

As to your second question: if the keys do not work, you probably have not built the macros. There is no problem with ":" in the macro.

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Originally Posted by Jafula

Here is one example:

Imagine you are 5 boxing.

You have a healer (priest), a tank, and 3 dps. You set up macros to heal your tank (Bob), like /cast [@Bob] Greater Heal, /cast [@Bob] Flash Heal, etc for all your heals (quite a few).

Now you have a friend with their own tank (Tom). You want to play with your friend, so your Tank (Bob) drops group and you invite Tom to your group.

How is your priest going to heal Tom?

1. You do not use Jamba Macro - You are going to have to go and change all the macros to point to Tom.

2. You use Jamba Macro - You change the tank variable value from Bob to Tom, push settings and click the build macros button. Done. Of course, your macros were built like /cast [@#tank#] Greater Heal and you had a tank variable with an initial value of Bob.

As to your second question: if the keys do not work, you probably have not built the macros. There is no problem with ":" in the macro.

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Thank you for this Jafula - exactly a scenario I run into regularly and one that I hadn't thought of attacking via Jamba!

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Originally Posted by Jafu;264956la

Here is one example:

Imagine you are 5 boxing.

You have a healer (priest), a tank, and 3 dps. You set up macros to heal your tank (Bob), like /cast [@Bob] Greater Heal, /cast [@Bob] Flash Heal, etc for all your heals (quite a few).

Now you have a friend with their own tank (Tom). You want to play with your friend, so your Tank (Bob) drops group and you invite Tom to your group.

How is your priest going to heal Tom?

1. You do not use Jamba Macro - You are going to have to go and change all the macros to point to Tom.

2. You use Jamba Macro - You change the tank variable value from Bob to Tom, push settings and click the build macros button. Done. Of course, your macros were built like /cast [@#tank#] Greater Heal and you had a tank variable with an initial value of Bob.

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This does indeed make sense as a nice example of Jamba usage. Thankyou.

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Originally Posted by Jafu;264956la

As to your second question: if the keys do not work, you probably have not built the macros. There is no problem with ":" in the macro.

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Initially i went through and made all my macro's before building including PW:Shield so it would have been built with the rest and was included in the chat pane with the rest so dont think this is the problem. I was playing around with it for a while and did redo this macro several times and ran tests by goign back to basics such as testing with various keybinds, variables etc that i knew were working fine as they were with the other macros. I havent had much of a chance to look at it again for the past couple of days but will do tomorrow.
You say that the issue isn't with ":" being used so right now i'm at a loss as i cant think what else it could be but tbh i suspect with a clear and untired head, I'll see a silly mistake staring me in the face.

Edit: Doh... okay you know its time to go to bed, when you forget to "unpause" the brodcasting of keystrokes to the clones. :P It works great now.... Godnight all

Hey, This is SO AWESOME. - now i just need it to work for me :)

i use this macro a lot

/assist [target=focus, exists]
/cast Wrath

and it works fine on the master, but i cant get the slave to attack. (i use /focus leadername on my alt, so its not because it is not focuesed, and i can also use the macro on my alt. but then i cant get the leader to attack the same target.)

Does the Assist not work?

is the macro file not downloadable for anyone else ? says fatal error file trying to be acessed by non admin user :S

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Originally Posted by bevv

is the macro file not downloadable for anyone else ? says fatal error file trying to be acessed by non admin user :S

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It's build into Jamba now. Get the latest version of Jamba.

Hi I am having some issues getting the macro command to broadcast to all of my toons.

Add Variable Set : VS1
Add Macro Set: MS1
Add Macro : M1
Push settings
Enable Macro Set
Build Macros

When I use /click JMB_M1 only the toon which has typed the command runs the macro.

Any ideas or suggestions? I have included screen shots below.

http://i25.tinypic.com/2hxc7ky.png

http://i31.tinypic.com/1496pms.png

http://i31.tinypic.com/25eyczq.png

Hey Wintershot,

It all looks good, you have done everything in the correct order. When you pressed the Build Macros (Team) button did the team print the macros being built in their chat windows?

Your statement is correct.

"When I use /click JMB_M1 only the toon which has typed the command runs the macro."

If you key broadcast the /click JMB_M1 then all your toons would do the command. Jamba cannot press keys or initiate spells for you. You need to use hardware (key presses, mouse clicks, etc) to initiate the macros.

If you added a key bind to your hello world macro and then push settings, built macros, and then press broadcasted that key press to all toons, you would get them all saying hello world.

Hope that helps, please ask if you have any more questions.

Cheers,
Jafula.

Thank you Jafula and sorry for the late reply. I knew that, I was having a moment.

Quick bug report on the macro section. If a variable set is deleted without deleting the linked macros, it will throw an error when you delete the macros and will not update until the UI is reloaded. I guess they are still looking for their variable set?

Cheers!

Thanks for the bug report!

I am a double boxing in wow for the first time ever and I apologize for this probably very novice question. I read through this full post and did not see anything that hwould help me..im macro challanged.

I have a shaman as my master and a druid as my slave. what im wanting to have happen is when i hit action button2 the shaman to cast lightning bolt and the druid to cast wrath. this is the first one im trying to set up and im hopelessly lost. I tried to do it simply..on the master (shaman) i set up so that action button 2 would use this command
"/cast Lightning bolt"
while on the slave action button2 would
"/assist Morynn
/cast wrath"
I feel stupid for even posting this but im desperate to make Jamba work...it seems like such a great addon...im just a ditz.

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Originally Posted by Kohana

I am a double boxing in wow for the first time ever and I apologize for this probably very novice question. I read through this full post and did not see anything that hwould help me..im macro challanged.

I have a shaman as my master and a druid as my slave. what im wanting to have happen is when i hit action button2 the shaman to cast lightning bolt and the druid to cast wrath. this is the first one im trying to set up and im hopelessly lost. I tried to do it simply..on the master (shaman) i set up so that action button 2 would use this command
"/cast Lightning bolt"
while on the slave action button2 would
"/assist Morynn
/cast wrath"
I feel stupid for even posting this but im desperate to make Jamba work...it seems like such a great addon...im just a ditz.

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You don't need Jamba for this - you need a key broadcaster like keyclone/ISBoxer/HKN. All you have to do is drag the macro onto the same action button for both WoW screens. Then when you press the key both toons will fire.

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Originally Posted by Kohana

I am a double boxing in wow for the first time ever and I apologize for this probably very novice question. I read through this full post and did not see anything that hwould help me..im macro challanged.

I have a shaman as my master and a druid as my slave. what im wanting to have happen is when i hit action button2 the shaman to cast lightning bolt and the druid to cast wrath. this is the first one im trying to set up and im hopelessly lost. I tried to do it simply..on the master (shaman) i set up so that action button 2 would use this command
"/cast Lightning bolt"
while on the slave action button2 would
"/assist Morynn
/cast wrath"
I feel stupid for even posting this but im desperate to make Jamba work...it seems like such a great addon...im just a ditz.

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Jamba-Macro is way too advanced for what you want.

Try reading this thread for a starter idea and make sure to get yourself a key broadcaster like thefunk says.

http://www.dual-boxing.com/showthread.php?t=16202

Is there anyway to switch the "master/focus" to which ever toon's screen/window the mouse is active on? Whether is be automatic by moving the mouse into that window or by a keypress which then checks for which screen/window has the mouse focus.

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Originally Posted by Taborious

Is there anyway to switch the "master/focus" to which ever toon's screen/window the mouse is active on? Whether is be automatic by moving the mouse into that window or by a keypress which then checks for which screen/window has the mouse focus.

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Macros can not change during combat, Blizzard does not allow it.

What you are describing may be something like this, FTL setup.

http://www.dual-boxing.com/showthread.php?t=10968

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Originally Posted by Taborious

Is there anyway to switch the "master/focus" to which ever toon's screen/window the mouse is active on? Whether is be automatic by moving the mouse into that window or by a keypress which then checks for which screen/window has the mouse focus.

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ISBoxer

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Originally Posted by Jafula

ISBoxer

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ISBoxer is for PC's only..... I don't know about the person who asked the question, but personally I use a mac. ;)

Would love it if they came out with an mac version of ISBoxer though......I'd be ALL over it. I know you can use it if you use bootcamp but I don't really like using Windows on my Mac, kinda defeats the purpose imho. :D

Bumping this for more exposure due to 4.0.1 changes.