Focusless, targetless, 'leaderless' (FTL) setup.

[echo]

I'm in the same boat as Multibocks, so I went and looked up the /click actionbuttons method and it seems like it's the perfect thing. My question is, how do you find out the name of the actionbutton id so you can put it in your macro? especially if you use an addon like macaroon? I did a search on the wow forum and saw the syntax for using this command, but they were using the default blizzard actionbars and not sure if the naming convention there will hold true for actionbar addons? Thanks in advance to any who can clear this up for me.

[Drakkun]

I'm in the same boat as Multibocks, so I went and looked up the /click actionbuttons method and it seems like it's the perfect thing. My question is, how do you find out the name of the actionbutton id so you can put it in your macro? especially if you use an addon like macaroon? I did a search on the wow forum and saw the syntax for using this command, but they were using the default blizzard actionbars and not sure if the naming convention there will hold true for actionbar addons? Thanks in advance to any who can clear this up for me.

In macaroon, enter into the button editor and left click the button you want to find the id for. It should show something like action id:20 on the button. Then click the button until it says macro again.

[jrichard]

use this macro: /print GetMouseFocus():GetName()

the macaroon buttons will have their own ids. Should come out to something like MacaroonButtonX

[olipcs]

one quick question for those who seem to use the '/click actionbutton' method.

Does it work for you, and had you any problems?

-I'm asking, cause some users seemed to have problems with it.

[echo]

Thanks for your feedback jrichard and drakkun! Working my way up to the actionbuttons method. gotta learn to crawl before I can run and all that

Thanks to all the wonderful and knowledgeable people on the forum. You guys rock !

Now with that said, can someone more experienced than I help me troubleshoot?

I followed the thread's instruction pretty much exactly, only replacing the command name for the appropriate druid spells. (trying to get a 4 druid team setup first) so instead of lbat or lbbt, i'm using wrathAT and starfireBT etc.

I modified the macro from the original posting to reflect my toon's names as follows

/target [mod:ctrl,mod:shift,nomod:alt,target=wynterz]
[mod:ctrl,mod:alt,nomod:shift,target=summerz]
[mod:alt,mod:shift,nomod:ctrl,target=autumnz]
[mod:ctrl,mod:alt,mod:shift,target=springz]
/follow
/targetlasttarget

then per the example from the original post by pocalypse, proceeded to bind that macro to "O". nothing else is bound to that letter, and the tilde key was bound to something but I unbinded it on all 4 instances of wow.

whenever i switch to a screen and hit "tilde", all the rest of the alts will basicallyl say the lines of the code in /say
if i hit tilde from the main toon screen, all the alts will follow her, but they will also say the lines of code from the macro in /say
if i hit tilde from any of the other alts screen, none of them will follow the new main, and they will say the lines of the code in /say

I just started using macaroon, but I cleared all the keybindings left previously by trinity2 manually by editing out all the config lines that referenced trinity2 buttons.
when I was creating the hotstrings, for the modifier I was using the right control/shift/alt instead of the left one, but didnt think that would make a difference?

I've tried to change the macro in game to both directly refference ralt, rctrl, and rshift, same results.
reverted back to general alt, ctrl, shift, with same results.

Can anyone spot what it is that I'm doing wrong? Thanks in advance once again for taking the time to read and help, and please let me know if anything is not clear.

[Multibocks]

real quick suggestion, but make sure there are no spaces after the ] in the macro. I made the same mistake cutting and pasting macros from the website. They have return lines in them.

edit: like this

/target [mod:ctrl,mod:shift,nomod:alt,target=wynterz][mod:ctrl,mod:alt,nomod:shift,target=summerz][mod:alt,mod:shift,nomod:ctrl,target=autumnz][mod:ctrl,mod:alt,mod:shift,target=springz]

[olipcs]

As Multibocks mentioned the above macro should only be 3 lines.

..I mentioned it in the wiki of the ftl, but perhaps i should highlight ist, as more users seem to have the same problem, sry!
(or maybe i could add a 'troubleshoting' section...)

[Frosty]

As Multibocks mentioned the above macro should only be 3 lines.

..I mentioned it in the wiki of the ftl, but perhaps i should highlight ist, as more users seem to have the same problem, sry!
(or maybe i could add a 'troubleshoting' section...)

Silly Olipcs! Nobody RTFM's anymore!!!
You need to make a youtube video!! :P

[echo]

lol, thanks for the help and funny you mention that frosty, one of the first things i tried to do was google a FTL setup video, but ended up getting hits for faster than light travel and stuff instead. :whistling:

and cant speak for the others Oli, but I think a troubleshooting section on the wiki would be great! course I'm sure you've got plenty to do as it is. lol.

*scurries off to try to fix my setup*

[Multibocks]

Ya know I was thinking about what I asked earlier (sharing a tank) and realized that it didnt matter. I would never use one of my shaman as the main in the pve instance, so macros on my paladin don't matter. So the shamans all use the correct names in the macros and so do my druids... the paladin I just put abilities(or macros) on the main keys. DUR, I feel silly. The problem would happen if you wanted to use different tanks with each setup... then each caster would need that /click to work with a different tank.

edit:

big /facepalm! Of course the other guys need to know who they are assisting =( So ya.. guess Im back to using /click or leveling another tank class.