Can I restart my macro from within the macro?

[RabbitKing]

Or, is there a way to call a macro without it getting hosed up by skipping imports?

Thanks so much!

[warlock45]

could set up a sub to reset variables to default values I suppose... is that what you are after?

[dewey2461]

I have a few macros which call each other and one that calls itself to restart so it can be done.

[JudgeD]

I also have macros setup with vars that will tell it to reset when it's appropriate to do so.

[RabbitKing]

Trying these approaches (other the re-initialization one) didn't work out for me.

Writing a proper re-initialize subroutine would be the correct way to go, but I hacked it with /keypress

Thanks for the suggestions!

[warlock45]

The macro I am familiar with has a "newzone" event that re initializes specific variables with in the macro.

I have also seen macros that call for a second macro, which does a small function, then that calls the first macro, resetting variables that way.

[LamahHerder]

What are you trying to do? Probably a better way we can suggest if we knew

[RabbitKing]

I sorted it out. I have a ton of variables which have a default state set in their declaration. These get changed based on a number of events, and I wanted to create a lazy way of resetting to default values.

I made an initialization method which sets them; now I can simply reset them at any time. Problem solved. I was just being lazy.

[moguay]

To effect a hot restart for different needs, in particular to perform some debugging/coding.

I created a primary start.mac script for init plugin, global variables/timer, alias, UI, key bind... and reinit global timer after EQ restart
then at the end, I auto launch my hand macro main.mac with this function

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Sub StartMain
    | Show MQ2 Error on Start sequence
    /if (${MacroQuest.Error.NotEqual[NULL]}) {
        /bcaa //docommand /${echo} ${Cr}Last MQ2 error${Cx}: ${MacroQuest.Error} - [ PC:${Ct}${Me.CleanName}${Cx} ]
    }
    /squelch /docommand /macro main.mac
/return

so with an alias /restart /bcaa //macro main.mac we can make quick and hot restarts.

[Voland]

How do you properly start a 2nd macro from the first macro?

I have a simple macro (no includes, no variables) that I would like to use to start a 2nd big macro (uses many .inc files, globals/locals, many subs).

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Sub Main
/echo Started Simple Mac
/docommand /macro bigmacro.mac
/echo Ending Simple Mac

/return

In MQ2 window I get

Started Simple Mac
The current macro has ended
The current macro has ended

but no error messages nothing.

http://macroquest2.com/includes/wassup/manual.php does not mention anything just says:

/macro filename [ Param0 [ Param1...]]
Starts running a macro. Calling a macro from another macro will end the calling macro.

So it makes sense that Ending Simple Mac is not seen.

What is not clear why bigmacro is ending immediately.

I can start bigmacro normally from MQ2 window with /mac bigmacro

So starting a second macro from the first macro loses something compared to starting it from MQ2 window.

[Voland]

I figured a workaround to restarting a macro within a macro.

Instead of having

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/docommand /macro /bigmacro.mac

in my simple.mac

I put in

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/keypress =

Where = goes to EQ shortcut which has /mac bigmacro.mac

This works perfectly, that is simple macro gets stopped and bigmacro starts.

Why EQ shortcut would work but in macro command would not I am unsure.

[JudgeD]

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/docommand /macro /bigmacro.mac

This should have been:

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/macro /bigmacro.mac

docommand wasn't needed, so it failed.

[warlock45]

Is the macro really called /bigmacro.mac ? Or is that slash there for a reason ?

Shouldn't it be just "/macro bigmacro"?