Switchable macro sets with variables - Addon - Jamba-Macro

[TheFallenOne]

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

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

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!

[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?

[Jafula]

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?

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.

[Dorffo]

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.

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

[Oracle]

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.

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

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.

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.

[Perfk]

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?

[bevv]

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

[Jafula]

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

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

[Wintershot]

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.

[Jafula]

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.