Help with bind and event

[dedw8]

I'm thinking this is a very simple thing to do yet in searching through all the posts and reading the manual I can't seem to figure it out. I'm writing my first macro and trying to do the following:

After I start my macro I want it to detect every time I press a key, say the 'e' key. I'm thinking I need to use events but not quite sure.

Any help is truly appreciated, and sorry if this is a dumb question.

Thanks,
D

[fearless]

This type of thing has usually been done with the varset command.

IE you would have an if statement with if varset = 0 then do this, if varset = 1 then do that.

Then you do an /echo varset 0 or /echo varset 1 to change the behavior.

The next step would be to use either a hotkey with the two echo's in it, or you could use a keybind.

Sorry for lack of better examples, but it should give you something to start searching for.

[Fuergrissa]

I'm thinking this is a very simple thing to do yet in searching through all the posts and reading the manual I can't seem to figure it out. I'm writing my first macro and trying to do the following:

After I start my macro I want it to detect every time I press a key, say the 'e' key. I'm thinking I need to use events but not quite sure.

Any help is truly appreciated, and sorry if this is a dumb question.

Thanks,
D

Could you give me an example of Why you would want to do it, maybe there is a better way to accomplish your goal.

[Cr4zyb4rd]

Several ways to do this. If there's a behavior in your script that you want to trigger or toggle, you can do this.

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/custombind add ToggleEKey
/custombind set ToggleEKey /varset EKey ${If[${EKey},0,1]}
/bind ToggleEKey e

be sure to

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/declare EKey bool global 0

in your macro or config files. If there's some behavior you want to continue WHILE you have the key held down, and then stop as you release it, use

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]/custombind add ToggleEKey
/custombind set ToggleEKey /varset EKey 1
/custombind set ToggleEKey-up /varset EKey 0
/bind ToggleEKey e

instead.

You could also do something like

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/custombind set EKeyStuff /echo Please do the EKey stuff now.

and then in your macro

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#event EKeyHit [MQ2] Please do the EKey stuff now.
Sub Event_EKeyHit
 blah blah blah
/return

to make an event, but this will spam your MQ window whenever you hit a key. Something like this could also be done using timers.

Either method will also work if you want to queue up multiple events, like "nuke 4 times if I spam the key 4 times", just use some '/varcalc EKey +1' action in there somewhere, and reduce the counter each time you handle the event.

[dedw8]

You guys are great. Someone asked for an example of what I'm trying to do, here goes:

1. Start my macro and wait for 'e' to be pressed
2. Every time 'e' is pressed do a certain action (I have an array of actions, so each 'e' press goes to the next, at the end of the array it goes back to the beginning)
3. I will manually terminate my macro.

I've got everything done save for the capture of the 'e' key, but wasn't sure if I would need a doevent loop and use bind or not.

I think Cr4zyb4rd is on the right track for what I need but its not a toggle, more capturing a keystroke to fire some code.

This confused me a little as well as i'm not quite sure whats happening after the varset:

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/custombind set ToggleEKey /varset EKey ${If[${EKey},0,1]}

Thanks again,
D

[Cr4zyb4rd]

If the value of ${EKey} is other than 0, set it to 0. Otherwise set it to 1. (ie toggle the value between true/false)

[JP5]

If you have an array, wouldn't you want to have values from 0 to ${ArrayName.Size} ?

If that's the case, here is what I would do.

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/declare ET[n] int local 0

/custombind add EToggle
/custombind set EToggle /docommand ${If[${ET}==${ET.Size},/varset ET 1,/varcalc ET ${ET+1}]}
/bind EToggle E

If ET array is at max, it sets it back to 1 (i'm not sure if you wanted it set to 1 or 0, so change that if it isn't right)