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Ualaa

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Post Tue Oct 02, 2012 12:18 pm

Help with Macro Library

Here's my configuration: http://privatepaste.com/d096403f13

I'm trying to Round-Robin a mouse-over Flash of Light and Divine Light.
With Flash of Light on Shift + Left Click (Mouse 1) and Divine Light on Shift + Right Click (Mouse 2).

Ideally, if I were to cast either spell both groups would advance to the next caster.
Currently, Shift + Left Click advances independently of Shift + Right Click (which is expected, since they're two separate [Do Mapped Key Actions] with Round-Robin within group checked).

My undesired behavior, which I don't understand is both Shift + Left Click and Shift + Right Click call the Divine Light macro action, neither click will Flash of Light.

What I did:
In Game Helpers, Selected World of Warcraft (top pane).
Created a Macro Set, specific for my team (Gold Team, is the character set), which I called Gold Macros.
Highlighted the team and the characters on the team, so the macros will apply to them.

Made two macros: RR Flash of Light & RR Divine Light.
Essentially copied my working Focus @Mouseover macro.
I gave each of the new macros a unique Key Combination.

In my Gold Key Map...
I made two mapped keys which run the Named Macro Action for the current window.
One for Flash of Light (named Flash of Light) and another for Divine Light (named Divine Light).

I made another pair of mapped keys, with Do Mapped Key Actions, RR within group.
Flash of Light RR, Hot Key: Mouse 1. Do Flash of Light, in Gold Keymap, Target: All of Gold Team, RR checked.
Divine Light RR, Hot Key: Mouse 2. Do Divine Light, in Gold Keymap, Target: All of Gold Team, RR checked.
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Ualaa

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Post Tue Oct 02, 2012 12:57 pm

Re: Help with Macro Library

Second issue...

The active slot, so far only on the "Gold Team", but has happened to both Slot 1 and Slot 2.

The / key and the ? key (same key) sometimes come up as ascii e and E's.
Exiting to desktop and relaunching the team is the only fix so far.
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Post Tue Oct 02, 2012 5:11 pm

Re: Help with Macro Library

There's something to be careful of on your Key Maps. Several of them have "Hold any Keystroke Actions while Hotkey is held" enabled as Default, which affects all of the Mapped Keys in the Key Map that don't override the default. This option is enabled for your Gold key map, and it's possible that unchecking this option may solve your problem. (Note that you may not have purposefully enabled this option; it used to default to being checked for new Key Maps, and this is no longer the case.)

And now for the lengthy explanation. Part of the effect of this option is not particularly obvious.

Normally, without the Hold option, when you have a Mapped Key send a Keystroke it's going to send that Keystroke without any additional modifiers (like, say, the modifier you are physically holding at the time).

With the Hold option, the behavior of dropping non-specified modifiers no longer has any effect. The modifier you are holding down will end up bleeding into a keystroke sent to the current window (similar to setting one up that holds Shift), or into others as well if either Key or Mouse broadcasting is enabled (because either will cause modifiers to broadcast).

This means that, solely because of the Hold option, if you hold Shift+Mouse1 and it sends Ctrl+Alt+O to the game in the current window (or including some other window if Key or Mouse broadcasting is enabled at the time), the game is going to end up getting Shift+Ctrl+Alt+O. (Your physically-held Shift, in addition to the Ctrl+Alt+O). This is a potential problem in this case, because WoW won't have a binding on Shift+Ctrl+Alt+O, and you have defined bindings on both Ctrl+Alt+O (Flash of Light) and Shift+Alt+O (Divine Light). It sounds like World of Warcraft is preferring the Shift over the Ctrl (checking its state first and allowing it to take precedence over Ctrl), and since your effective key combos are Shift+Shift+Alt+O and Shift+Ctrl+Alt+O this is why it would always cast Divine Light (Shift+Alt+O) as opposed to Flash of Light (Ctrl+Alt+O).




I don't see anything off hand that would remap the /? key though
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Ualaa

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Post Tue Oct 02, 2012 7:31 pm

Re: Help with Macro Library

Removing the HOLD, from the Key Map resolved the first issue.
I've removed that from each of the Key Maps that had it enabled.

The / is not bugged initially, when the team is launched.
But at some point in play it changes.
Not sure why, but it is not desired behavior.

Not even sure if its IS Boxer related or not.
Just that it has only happened a few times, and always when playing the Gold team.
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