Jamba:Macro - What cool new things are you doing now?

[Ghallo]

The more I have been working with Jamba:Macro the more I feel like it has the potential to replace Macaroon and other addons. It truly is like playing with a Lego set - the opportunities are almost endless.

One of my biggest issues is switching from MBox to Solo mode on my toons. Essentially I've never done it because the macros in Macaroon got so out-of-hand that I gave up. I'm not done with creating all of the Macros I want in Jamba:Macro but I've already started the clean-up process.

To that end, I thought I'd start a thread where people get together and share ideas on the unique ways they've made use of Jamba:Macro.

[Strata]

Thanx for starting this! I have been beating the various sites for a guide on jamba-macro and can't find anything on it. I have a slight grasp on creating macros but can't get jamba to execute them. Is there a guide with basic step by step execution anywhere?

[lacitpo]

http://www.dual-boxing.com/showthread.php?t=24694

Jafula's post, explaining Jamba macro

[Ghallo]

Ok, to get things started, I'll include a brief "How To" here. Just so others don't have to dig through a ton of other threads. I'll edit this as needed.

1. Get Jamba: http://wow.jafula.com/addons/jamba
2. Build your team (I've found the fastest way to do this is to change the comm channel to something unique with a simple password, then add the master to all the slaves. On the master (only) add all the slaves. If they don't show as "Online" go to the Com section and click the button to change the channel. Once that is set choose "Push Settings to Other Toons" .. I push that button often while playing around in Jamba.
3. Go to Jamba:Variables. Click "Add" and for the name call it "MyVariables" (call it whatever you want, I'm using this for the example).
   1. Add any variables you may need. Notice the "Tag" section? That determines WHO gets that variable assigned. For example: I have 2 mages, a warlock and a priest. I want to create a spell for each for CC. I create the variable CC 3 times. It has the following value
      
      • Variable: CC, Value: Polymorph, Tag (Applies to): Mage
      • Variable: CC, Value: Banish, Tag (Applies to): Warlock
      • Variable: CC, Value: Shackle: Undead, Tag (Applies to): Priest
4. Go to Jamba: Tag section and make sure that my Mage has the Mage tag, Priest has Priest, and Warlock has Warlock.
5. Go to Jamba:Macro section and add a Macro List. I don't know the real name for this. Consider it a "Master List of Macros". Call it your Team's name. I called one GhalloTeam for my Pally team, and PriestLockTeam for my other team (not listed here). Though to be honest I don't see much need to create more than one.
6. Add some macros. Let's create a macro called "CCSpell"
7. In the Macro Text section type:

   /stopcasting /cast [harm,nodead][@focustarget,harm,nodead][@targettarget,harm,nodead] #CC#

8. Make sure to click the "Accept" button (I can't tell you how many times I've lost a macro because I forgot that part).
9. Since my main is a paladin, I don't want him casting this spell. I type !Paladin in the Tag (Applies to) box. Alternatively, you could type: Mage,Priest,Warlock (probably better to do that).
10. Next, Bind a key to this. I can either use Macaroon and create a button that has /click JMB_CCSpell or I can bind the button from this screen.
11. Push and wait! If you don't click the button to push this to other characters and then wait till you see the message "Settings received from xxx" then the final step will not work.
12. Go back to your "Accept all" macro... you know the one we all have for accepting trades/etc? Add the following line:

    /jamba-macro use <macro set name> <variable set name> <tag>

    or for my example -

    /jamba-macro use GhalloTeam MyVariables all

    Once that line is added, hit the button.

All of your toons should have their chat window go nuts with the new macros that have been added. Check it out and have fun!

[lacitpo]

Cool work. I'm going to do a major macro rewrite *ugh* tonight when I get home from work. I'll be using Jamba macro and this should be a good kickoff point.

BTW, we should begin wikifying this so it isn't lost in the ether in a month when this post goes cold. Maybe under the main Jamba article calling it 'Jamba-Macro' or Using Jamba-Macro

Jafula? it's your baby, got a preference?

[thinus]

I made a new macro set for Oculus for the final boss. So now I just switch to that macro set and I am ready to go with the dragons. Switch back to my normal macro set afterwards.

EDIT: Is there an easy way to dump the Jamba macros to a text file or something? Or is it stored in the WTF folder in a XML style format perhaps?

EDIT2: Looks like it is in the WTF folder in Jamba-macro.lua

[Jafula]

Cool work. I'm going to do a major macro rewrite *ugh* tonight when I get home from work. I'll be using Jamba macro and this should be a good kickoff point.

BTW, we should begin wikifying this so it isn't lost in the ether in a month when this post goes cold. Maybe under the main Jamba article calling it 'Jamba-Macro' or Using Jamba-Macro

Jafula? it's your baby, got a preference?

I'm easy, if you want to write something up, the wiki is probably a good place for it.

[Moorea]

binding my macro to a key doesn't seem to work for me - is there something special to do (after push to toons)
(I tried a simple /cast [target=party1] renew bound to "-" (after unbinding it from normal action bar) I can hit forever the key nothing happens - copy pasting the macro text to the console/chat works - trying /click version didn't seem to work either) - any guess what am I doing wrong ?

[thinus]

binding my macro to a key doesn't seem to work for me - is there something special to do (after push to toons)
(I tried a simple /cast [target=party1] renew bound to "-" (after unbinding it from normal action bar) I can hit forever the key nothing happens - copy pasting the macro text to the console/chat works - trying /click version didn't seem to work either) - any guess what am I doing wrong ?

Did you run the "jamba-macro use" command after pushing the macros?

[Moorea]

Duh ! I didn't - my bad for not reading the first post - but shouldn't that be built in / implied by pushing macros and asking a binding ? (considering the ui already mention tags...)