need some advanced help

[huile]

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have been requested by my guild to write a few macros which will assist in raiding. and for a few of them i need to identify global cooldowns and i know that the addon quartz can report it in some manner.

i was attempting to do this through frame identification.

my macro is very wrong and i know it. so could i ask for some assistance with it

here it is

thanks in advance for your time with this matter

/run if (Quartz.gcdbar.Private.UIParent.Frame.QuartzGCDBar :OnHide)) then SendChatMessage("hello", "SAY", nil) end

or would this work better


/run if (Quartz.gcdbar.Private.UIParent.Frame.QuartzGCDBar :OnShow)) then SendChatMessage("hello", "SAY", nil) end

but this again reports when the bar is active not when its not on screen.

Would there be use of an elseif statment to remedy this problem?


from another author not from me
or is there another way to go about doing this.

thanks for your time


/script local s=GetSpellCooldown("Dampen Magic Rank7") > 0; if s then print("I'm on global cooldown.") end

this script will not put out any output at all this is for a simple reason there is no cooldown for the specific spell u could essentially create a 'cast' loop essentially of it until mana fail

To get proper response for what i am looking for is something which does work

/script local s=GetSpellCooldown("Evocation") > 0; if s then print("I'm on spell not global cooldown.") end

so essentially to get the above code to work is it reports if evocation timer is active and will not report if its not.

so that is where an else if statment might come in. but the problem that is here is there is no report of the global cooldown because its not global cooldown which is not spell analogous its global. so it will throw an error, of nil returned because there is no spell cooldown associated with Dampen Magic Rank*

[Templar]

Just reading through it briefly, you are trying to make a macro to display a message to you if you are on global cooldown? Or are you trying to make the message appear to the whole party/raid?

Not really sure what your overall goal is here... I mean, if it's just to you, there really isn't any point, considering that trying to cast a spell while on any cooldown will automatically give a message "Spell is not ready yet" to the user.

Are you trying to make a type of "auto" macro so that spells will cast constantly and almost automatically? For example, one button will cause a continuous rotation of Arcane Blast x3, Arcane Missiles/Arcane Barrage? If so, this is very risky. Blizz has been known to ban people for having macros that do this sort of thing. Some of the gaming keyboards (Logitech G11 and G15) have macro buttons on the keyboard themselves, and these macro buttons were getting people banned because they could essentially set one button to do everything in the game for them, almost like a bot.

Like I said, not really sure what you are trying to make a macro for... You just say you need to identify global cooldowns.

[Zerrin]

Macros are tough bro, I don't think you are gonna get any advanced help here there is literally a book written on wow macros.

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