Switchable macro sets with variables - Addon - Jamba-Macro

[Jafula]

What's the limit on the Macro length? Macaroon has a limit of 1024 for it's macros ... does Jamba-Macro have the same limit? Additionally, it does not appear that /script commands can be run from Jamba -
/script SetView(4);SetView(4);
for example does not work.

The character limit is 1024 for macros in Jamba-Macro. I have /script SetView(4);SetView(4); working fine in my Jamba-Macros.

Remember that after you create/change a macro, you need to "use" the macro set in order for Jamba-Macro to build the macros.

You can issue a command from one toon to make all the toons use a certain macro set and variable set.

/jamba-macro use default default all

The first default refers to the macro set, the second default to the variable set and all is the tag that every toon has, so all toons in the team will run the use command.

Also make sure that you have bound a key to the macro or are using it in a /click JMB_xxxxxxx manner.

You can check that the macro gets built the way you want by selecting it and clicking the show button. The macro will be printed to the default chat window.

[Ghallo]

The character limit is 1024 for macros in Jamba-Macro. I have /script SetView(4);SetView(4); working fine in my Jamba-Macros.

Remember that after you create/change a macro, you need to "use" the macro set in order for Jamba-Macro to build the macros.

You can issue a command from one toon to make all the toons use a certain macro set and variable set.

/jamba-macro use default default all

The first default refers to the macro set, the second default to the variable set and all is the tag that every toon has, so all toons in the team will run the use command.

Also make sure that you have bound a key to the macro or are using it in a /click JMB_xxxxxxx manner.

You can check that the macro gets built the way you want by selecting it and clicking the show button. The macro will be printed to the default chat window.

Here's what I did:

1. In Jamba-Macro I clicked "Add" for "Macro Sets" typed a name "Setviews"
2. Clicked "Setviews" and under "Macros" I clicked "Add" - Typed a name "SV4"
3. Under Macro Text I entered: /script SetView(4);SetView(4);
4. Clicked Accept
5. Went to Macaroon, edited a button, added /click JMB_SV4
6. Click button ... no joy.

So... between step 4 and 5 do I need to do the following?
<enter> type "/jamba-macro use Setviews default all" <enter>

And yes, I know this macro isn't ... useful ... I am just using it as an example

[Jafula]

OK, I'm a long time multiboxer, and long time macro IDIOT.

Here's what I would like to see happen with this macro thing (and, your new jamba looks GREAT for it, maybe you can tell me if this is possible.)

OK, so for my team, I am currently using a macro like the following bound to each of my "leader" buttons: (F4-F8)

/target "Acct1Toon1"
/target "Acct1Toon2"
/target "Acct1Toon3"
/target "Acct1Toon4"
/focus
/follow
/assist

etc for all 5 of my accounts

the reason I have this, is to save on macros, where I used to use "/focus "Act1Toon1" style macros, which work well except need a new macro for EVERY toon in my extensive list (going on 24 toons now).

OK, here's what I would like to see, an ability to still use an active "/focus Act1Toon1" in macros somewhere, and I assume I can somehow use "/focus #master#" and then I can simply make a macro for making each toon the master and pushing team settings?

The reason I want /focus "toonname" is because with

/target "toonname"
/focus

vehicle focus doesn't work, and I run WG a lot, as well as many tournament dailies and ToCs so my vehicle use is essential. Someone with better knowledge of this system can tell me how to make this work, I would really appreciate it.

Let me see if I can help you...

Make sure you are using the latest update of JambaDev 0.5.

First of all some basics. You should have all of the toons in your team added to Jamba-Team. I'm going to work with Tom, Dick, Harry, Sally and Jane. Make sure you have pushed the team settings to all the toons.

Now, in Jamba-Tag, I am going to assign each of these toons a tag. Tom gets the tag "toon1", Dick gets the tag "toon2", Harry gets the tag "toon3", Sally gets the tag "toon4" and Jane gets the tag "hotbabe", er, I mean "toon5". Make sure you push these tags settings to all your toons.

Now when I write my macros in Jamba-Macro, instead of writing Tom, I write #toon1#.

Jamba-Macro has variable sets and macro sets. Create a variable set called "default" and a macro set called "default". These can be any names you like, I'm just using "default". Now select the default macro set and you are ready to create some macros.

Please note that the variable set will be empty for this example as the example uses toon tags instead of variables.

Switching masters. I am going to use F1, F2, F3, F4, and F5 for my master switching keys. For each slot in my team (5 toons = 5 slots), I am going to write two macros. One macro is for the toon that becomes the master and the other macro is for the toons that become the slaves. I will call these macros master1, slave1, master2, slave2, ... master5, slave5. Here are the macros for master1, slave1 and master2, slave2. The others 3-5 are similiar (you'll work it out I'm sure).

master1

/jamba-team master #toon1#

slave1

/jamba-team master #toon1#
/focus #toon1#
/jamba-follow master

master2

/jamba-team master #toon2#

slave2

/jamba-team master #toon2#
/focus #toon2#
/jamba-follow master

Now, after you have created your master1 and slave1 macro in Jamba-Macro, you need to assign tags to these macros.

Select the master1 macro and change its tag to "toon1" (without the quotes). Now select the slave1 macro and change its tag to "!toon1". Notice that this tag has an ! in front if it. This ! means apply the macro to any toon that does not have this tag.

A key also needs to be assigned to these macros. For the first toon, I am going to use F1. Select the master1 macro and assign the key F1 to the macro. Select the slave1 macro and assign the same key, F1 to the macro. Both master1 and slave1 are assigned the F1 key.

After you have "use"d the macros, when you press F1, only Tom will run the master1 macro, because he is tagged with the toon1 tag and all the others will run the slave1 macro, because they do not have the toon1 tag.

Now create the master2, slave2 macros, assigning the tag "toon2" to the master2 macro and "!toon2" to the slave2 macro, the key F2 to both the macros. Do this for the remaining toon3 (F3 key), toon4 (F4 key) and toon5 (F5 key) master slave macro pairs.

Now push the Jamba-Macro settings to all the other toons (remember the tag and team settings need to be pused to other toons as well).

Now on one toon, type:

/jamba-macro use default default all

This will make all the toons use the default macro and variable sets. Now you should be able to press F1 through F5 and have the toons change master, set focus to the master and follow the master.

So far so good, but what about all your other toons. When you want to add a new toon or a new team, you just need to change the toons tag. Say, I remove Dick and replace him with Bob. I just add the tag "toon2" to Bob, push the tag settings and then run the use command above. Just make sure each member in the team has a unique tag, one of toon1 through toon5.

When you add a new team member, you need to make sure you push the tags and macro settings to that new member before the macros will work.

You can use the profile functionality of Jamba to set up different teams, all ready to go with the correct tags if you wish.

I hope that helps. Please ask more questions of me.

[Jafula]

So... between step 4 and 5 do I need to do the following?
<enter> type "/jamba-macro use Setviews default all" <enter>

Yes, that should be enough. Or you can click the "use" button at the top of the Macro: Macros page. Does it work?

[Ghallo]

Yes, that should be enough. Or you can click the "use" button at the top of the Macro: Macros page. Does it work?

Actually ... it didn't at first. Evidently even if you aren't using a single variable you still have to create at least 1 empty variable set. Once that was done it worked just fine - thank you so much for your help (and a great addon!)

[Mokoi]

Jafula for President!

also, are there plans to implement a "take all team taxi" button?

=)

[Jafula]

Jafula for President!

also, are there plans to implement a "take all team taxi" button?

=)

Heh. In Jamba 0.5 the taxi mirror should work from any team member, not just the master. Please let me know if thats not the case.

Woot: This one is post #1000!

[thinus]

O M F G !!!!

Ok, I got around to installing Jamba-Dev and have been playing around with it a little and I just have to say you are doing an AMAZING job with it!!! It took a bit of tweaking to get my quest selection settings working the way it did before. I started using strobe follow for the first time and it is great for questing.

I just started playing around with the macros and having to click on "Use" caught me out initially.

So one question:
After pushing to the clones I find that I still need to click "Use" on each clone to get the macros generated. I can probably get mouse forwarding setup so I only click it on the main. But is this a restriction at the moment or am I missing something?

[Jafula]

You only need to push to the clones once. After that you need to use the macros on each toon once. On reload they will remember the macro set they were using and automatically build the macros as part of the loading process.

From one toon you can issue the command

/jamba-macro use <macrosetname> <variablesetname> all

to get all the toons to rebuild their macros.

Hope that helps.

[thinus]

Thanks I found the "/jamba-macro use" command. Everything seems groovy

I converted my focus macros to be Jamba based and use variables. If I understand correctly for my two team setup I can configure it as follows:

Variable set: TEAM1
C1 = Borck
C2 = Zorck
C3 = Dorck
C4 = Porck
C5 = Corck

Variable set: TEAM2
C1 = Msblonde
C2 = Mswhite
C3 = MsBlack
C4 = Msred
C5 = Msbrown

Macro set: FOCUS
FOCUS1: /focus #C1#
FOCUS2: /focus #C2#
FOCUS3: /focus #C3#
FOCUS4: /focus #C4#
FOCUS5: /focus #C5#

And then I have to use the macros once with the appropriate team logged in:

TEAM1: /jamba-macro use FOCUS TEAM1 all
TEAM2: /jamba-macro use FOCUS TEAM2 all

I thought I'd post the entire thing just in case it helps someone else out.