GS-E myMacros Addin Pack 

Originally Posted by rcoones

So i love GS, great addon. However, since the launch of legion and GS-E I have had nothing but problems with this addon. I cant edit anything from within the game, just does absolutely nothing, or acts like its going to edit it and I change what I want changed to improve the generic lackluster macros that it comes with and then click the close/save button and it reverts immediately back to what it was before. There is also about a 20/80 chance that importing a good macro is going to work. Sometimes it just works great... thats the 20 percent. 80 percent of the time, however it just does absolutely nothing. I have uninstalled, reinstalled, updated, and reloaded about a dozen times, no change. So since none of that worked and I was already fairly avid at editing macros using the notepad method I tried just going back to that, it worked and rarely had any issues, but any changes I make and reload do not apply. This addon is heading down a slippery slippery slope into failure. It would be great if they could get it back on track, or just go back to the way things used to be, steep learning curve for those without programming experience, but once you understand it, super super easy to manage.

Originally Posted by zombeez

i extracted this addon folder to the wow addons folder....

copied a macro from the core, changed the name of it and pasted in the new macro file (to keep the working format etc), and it isnt showing up on available macros. it isnt showing up on the add ons list either

yes i used notepadd ++

Originally Posted by Starsilver

All fixed in 1.04, aside from the *potential* issues people can have pasting things into the mymacro folder that exist in the DraikMacro folder, while having both enabled which I just wanted to have posted here so people could be informed. I am fairly certain people WILL do it, if not from your folder then unintentionally from wowlazymacros etc. I was aware of the behavior of the sequences.lua file being overridden when gs updates but thanks for making that clear for others, I was only using it as an alternative to fixing all the errors in the lua files in the older version of the draik pack

I spent the past days trying all but a few of the macro's (don't have healing gear) as I have all the classes except DemonHunter. Ideas I have for possible tweaks would be:

The blue text for the author is a bit hard to read in the chat box. If that is something we could add code to inside the lua file to change let us know. Optionally consider a color picker in the addon itself for the different information that gets sent to the chat window when you do /gs, IF that is a simple thing which I expect it is not

We also probably need a "standard" syntax for the talents as some are listed as 123321, others as 1,2,3,3,2,1 and they do make a difference in readability. If authors could write them more like 1,2,3,x,x,3 where the x's are NOT required talents for the macro it would be a quality of life improvement and allow people to choose their own movement/cc talents etc not used by the macro.

It would also be nice if people included the intended usage of the macro in the helptxt section, ie leveling / grinding/ dungeons or raiding etc, just to make it simpler for people to pick a macro from the ones listed via /gs. This is more important now with the macro packs as people might not be able to read all the notes from a website that actually explain things better unless authors code in excluded text with all the relevant notes and even then if it comes in a pack many will never even see it to be honest.

This might be not be possible but if it is, having the ability to pick a macro then have the option for gs set the talents required for you in game would be amazing! Perhaps easier done in a rest area as no item would also be required. I often have multiple macro's for the same spec separated for solo / raid and if the talents are different it can be bad

Do you know how to properly use spells with a ' in them such as the mage's Dragon's Breath spell work in gs? As an example '/cast Dragon's Breath', will not work as the ' in Dragon's cuts off the *s Breath',* part. It is easy to see the problem using Notepad++ as the first part would be grey and the end is black. Having that it in a macro will prevent /gs from working right, no chat text for talents etc, no macro populated in the macro window though it does open the macro window still!


Thank you very much for all the improvements!

Originally Posted by Hanslov

Just to clear (still a little confused). The place to save it (for me) should be here: H:\Program Files (x86)\World of Warcraft\interface\addons.

GnomeSequencer
GS-Core
GS-DraikMacros
GS-SequenceEditor
GS-MyMacros

Correct?

Thanks for all help.

Originally Posted by Starsilver

Hello, firstly Thank you for all the work on this great mod!

If you are like me and are using the myMacros addon, AND tried to copy the macro's from the GS-DraikMacros to the myMacro's folder in order to have a baseline to fiddle with / edit like I did, you may have the same problems I did. Or if you copy/paste a macro with the same name as comes with the DraikMacros folder into your myMacros folder that came from a website such as wowlazymacros.

If BOTH addons are enabled then when you type /gs in game and press enter the macro window does not open to populate the new macro into (*see notes below). Also you will get duplicate lines in your chat window as both addons are sending you the notes (minor issue).

Potentially a major issue if you have both running and working right at the same time and had duplicate macro names in both, but different code in the macros, I do not know what would happen for sure but it might run the one you did not want if one over rides the other. Or if is identically coded they both run simultaneously with no noticeable issues. Or they are differently coded and run simultaneously and may or may not spontaneously open a portal to a hell dimension as a result of this abomination.

The above MAY be solved by disabling the DraikMacros ingame. Optionaly disable myMacros, just be sure to use one or the other IF you might have the same macro names in a lua file in both.

1* Note with a fresh install of GS-E ONLY, no myMacros or my own sequences.lua file in the GS-Core folder when I type /gs in game and press enter the help text shows up (with talents etc) in chat but the macro window never opens nor populates with the built in macros from the DraikMacros folder when DraikMacros is also enabled .

2* Without myMacros folder present and enabled the only way it works properly is to put my own sequnces.lua in the GS-Core folder, otherwise it behaves as below.

3* Also the /gs text remains in the chat window in game and does not go away like it does when it is working right where it should open the macro editor then vanish from the text edit window. So I suspect there is something wonky in the DraikMacros folder as I never could get that to work in either 1.0.x or 1.0.3.


PS: If everyone could stop using /startattack in ALL CASTER (melee and hunter is fine) macro's that would be GREAT. Those of us using a wand especially do not want to be using it to auto attack when we should be casting. The animations go crazy in this situation (spastic wanding) and wanding might lower dps. Easy to miss for casters using other weapons unless they get into melee range and then it is possible they just do not notice the melee swings.

Sorry for the long post,
Thank you again and have a great day!

Originally Posted by Hanslov

How do I use this addon?
Were do I place the file?