Macaroon

[ChaoticMonk]

EDIT: Nevermind....I enabled the blizz bar and dragged my macros to it instead

I got all my solo characters set up with no issues (they dont use any macros)

Now that I'm working on my multibox characters I'm having issues when I drag my macro from my macro book to a bar.

Here is one of the macros:

#showtooltip
/assist [target=focus, exists]
/cast [mod:shift] Chain Lightning
/cast [mod:ctrl] Earth Shock
/cast [nomod] Lightning Bolt

I've put this on the first button in bar 1 (which is an action button with id#1) and bound it to '2'. When I press 2 it does lightning bolt (great!), when I press ctrl+2 it does earthshock (perfect!) but when I press shift+2 it does lightning bolt again and I can't figure out why.

This is the exact same macro I've used prior to macaroon =/

[Xar]

Most likely because Shift-2 is bound to switch to second bar...so bind it to an action then unbind it and it should work.

[Sarduci]

To everyone who just posted in this thread to say hi and thanks - :love:

/warm fuzzies

Still wrapping my brain around it all, but mad props for making it!

[Macaroon]

Biggest thing I stumbled around with was figuring out which mode I was in and what you could or couldn't do in each mode, a lot of blind right clicking experimentation.

That and all the possible checkboxes when you are setting up a bar, some make sense (stealth, pet, stuff like that) but not all.

And things like Alpha and Strata lost me entirely. Is there a resource somewhere that explains what those things do or what they are best used for?

I can tell the thing is powerful and endlessly flexible, but usually in cases like that you need tutorials, great tooltips, helpfiles, or some combination of all of them so schlubs like me have a hope of doing something flexible and portable among my team. Rob's youtube clips and sample setups and other endless idiot's guides to keyclone are one of the reasons a fairly powerful tool is less intimidating. Similar with Rawr and Jamba, they lessen complexity with tooltips or explanatory text.

That said, someone mentioned being able to copy the bars to another toon easily earlier in thread, how does one go about that? Once I get things settled in I'd like to copy paste and tweak to my other toons rather than do it all by hand again.



edit: can you tell I posted this from work with no wow windows in front of me?

See if this thread helps - http://www.wowinterface.com/forums/s...ad.php?t=18454

and also - http://www.wowinterface.com/forums/s...5&postcount=63

[Macaroon]

Leaderless/Targetless - Focus Based Hydra[/url] , all I need to do is Bar target = focus, custom state as target=focustarget,exists , and then set all the buttons as actionIDs instead of "macro"?

(I'm Dragonsblaze from wowinterface Maul :P)

Yup! Or maintain the macros with the targeting info you want

[Macaroon]

That's somewhat what I've come to conclude as well, however i just set focustarget in target. - haven't gotten around to play with it yet, just configuring it

one thing though if you set the bar as focustarget target, it won't show as a bar until you .. have a focus and a focustarget it seems. - then it pops out.

i'm sure macaroon/maul can answer on how this exact feature works.

the most optimal solution for me would be to have a list of targets you can move up or down, call it "priorities" - with an added "condition" - it would then traverse down the list and cast on the first match it finds - not sure if that's possible though but that would allow for one bar to be used for all purposes without having to redo them

The bar target feature is meant to hide/show a bar on unit existence. If you do not want a bar with this behavior, then just make your macros with the targeting info you need and don't use the bar target feature.

[Macaroon]

Question,

I used Bongos before, for one reason only: Able to use modifier (alt, shift, ctrl) to change bar (which also had 1-9 buttons).
Is this possible in macaroon aswell?

Yup!

[Macaroon]

Dear Maul,

Thank you very, very much. Please know how much I (and obviously others) appreciate your efforts. Words here cannot express the depth of my gratitude for your efforts to make this mod public and then to hold our hands while we try to get all this power under control.

I can truly say I have never felt this strongly about any other addon I have used. Most addons are a new flavor of mostly the same functionality. Your out-of-the-box thinking on this has gifted the MB'ing community more than most yet realize I suspect. Extending the macro character limit to 1024 characters - HUGE! Increasing the number of buttons beyond the 120 - also big. Just the whole idea of your action bar buttons each being macros... well, enough worship I suppose.

Again, thank you.

Sincerely,
Hàrem

Hehehe, thanks

[Macaroon]

[quote='ChaoticMonk',index.php?page=Thread&postID=1 36142#post136142]EDIT: Nevermind....I enabled the blizz bar and dragged my macros to it instead

I got all my solo characters set up with no issues (they dont use any macros)

Now that I'm working on my multibox characters I'm having issues when I drag my macro from my macro book to a bar.

Here is one of the macros:
[code]#showtooltip
/assist [target=focus, exists]
/cast [mod:shift] Chain Lightning
/cast [mod:ctrl] Earth Shock
/cast [nomod] Lightning Bolt[/code]

I've put this on the first button in bar 1 (which is an action button with id#1) and bound it to '2'. When I press 2 it does lightning bolt (great!), when I press ctrl+2 it does earthshock (perfect!) but when I press shift+2 it does lightning bolt again and I can't figure out why.

This is the exact same macro I've used prior to macaroon =/[/quote]What [url='http://www.dual-boxing.com/forums/index.php?page=User&userID=2988']Xar[/url] said.

[cairnz]

The bar target feature is meant to hide/show a bar on unit existence. If you do not want a bar with this behavior, then just make your macros with the targeting info you need and don't use the bar target feature.

That's the whole reason for the bar target, to not have to write all these macros

But i'm used to it now and i couldn't be happier.

Already seeing ways i can use this feature to really customize my 5box setup - it will be sweet.

:love: