WoW Macro works in game, not when made via ISBoxer toolkit

I feel like it's something simple I'm missing so forgive me if it ends up being such...

I have spent about an hour and a half on this one problem before seeking help online.

The following macro:

/stopmacro [mounted]
/cast [target=focus,exists,nodead,help] sacred shield; [target=Yoomone,exists,nodead] sacred shield; [target=player] sacred shield

The idea is to cast Sacred Shield with the following priority:
1. Focus
2. Yoomone (who is my tank spec'd toon)
3. Self

This macro works in game, however if I make a World of Warcraft Macro Action in the ISBoxer toolkit it seems to stop before the "[target=player] sacred shield". I log yoomone out of the game to test it on the slaves. The reason I'd like to use the ISBoxer Macro method rather than just creating a macro in game is because I want to use one of two macros depending on if i'm in "PVP Mode" (IWT enabled keys enabled) or "PVE Mode" (same keys w/o IWT). When in PVP mode the macro would be shorter:

/stopmacro [mounted]
/cast [target=focus,exists,nodead,help] sacred shield; sacred shield; [target=player] sacred shield

The idea is to cast Sacred Shield with the following priority:
1. Focus
3. Self

The second macro also fails before the final condition. Neither of these macros will cast sacred shield on the toon in question when created in ISBoxer. I have tried changing out [target=player] with [@player] and [target={CHARACTER}]. I have closed down all WoW windows and re-exported and re-started. No luck.

[Alge]

I don't have a definite solution for you and can't test this as I am not currently subscribed to WoW. Here is what I would try...

1. Confirm the ISBoxer macro does not work by copying the macro from ISBoxer to WoW and confirming it then works correctly. If not, you have a typo or some other similar issue.
2. Look at the code for the macro in the ISBoxer addon. This will be in the directory ..\Interface\addons\ISBoxer under your WoW installation. The macro definition is in the file ISBoxer_Character-<CharName>.lua where <CharName> is the name of your character. Check the macro is there and that it is correct. If there has been an issue with the creation of the macro here is where you will find it.
3. It may be that (some) macros created by addons do not work the same as macros made directly in the game. This may be a bug or a feature, either newly-introduced or long-standing. You could modify the code of the ISBoxer addon to check, making sure to reload the UI in game but not export from ISBoxer (that will overwrite any manual changes).

Let us know how you get on.

Hmmm interesting. I learned something today and I have you to thank for it.

I found the .lua file you were referring to and for some reason it was not getting updated, the new macro was missing. Luckily I was able to use an existing macro and copy/paste/edit it to do what I wanted. The old macro was still in there where it wouldn't try to cast Sacred Shield on the player so that's why I thought it was simply not working.

I'll have to look into why the file is not getting updated. I'm just picking up WOW and isboxer after over a year of retirement so there could be some administrative or privilege thing that got set somewhere along the line on my machine...

Still not 100% sure of the root cause but I thank you for your response as digging through the .lua file you pointed me to was both a learning experience and a solution.

Thanks,
StevOwn

PS is there a way to track that this issue was resolved or should I delete the post?

[Alge]

PS is there a way to track that this issue was resolved or should I delete the post?

Just leave it here. Someone may have a similar issue at some point and this post may be helpful in resolving that.

With regard to updating the addon, make sure you are running both Inner Space and ISBoxer as Administrator. Also make sure if you have two WoW installations that you are using the right one (right click Inner Space in the system tray, Configuration, Game Configuration). Other than that, good luck! I do not even pretend to understand permissions/privileges in Windows.