Complete n00b

poosader · Post by **poosader** » Sun Aug 15, 2004 8:28 am

The title says it all. I have no idea what I am doing here. It took me a while to even figure out the compression and stuff. Now I look at it and am completely boggled.

I have no idea where to write the "scripts", nor what to write. I'm still unsure of how to upload them while I am in game. I am completely computer illiterate when it comes to programming and script writing. I probably won't understand it unless you make it as if you were talking to a 13 year old. All I know is that I wanna be a GM tradeskiller without carpal tunnel by the time I turn 21. So:
/click <Combine button>
/click <delete item>
/click <delete item>
would be the only thing i need, well that and someway to repeat it. I can go out and get the supplies etc, go back to the forge, brew barrel etc. Just dont wanna be forced to sit and click.

Chill · Post by **Chill** » Sun Aug 15, 2004 2:34 pm

Most simple "scripts" will be found as macros in forums like Macro Depot v3.0. They use a fairly simple psuedo-C++ style code that you can pick up pretty easily.

If your main goal at this point is to automate tradeskill combines, I would search that forum for tradeskill/combine macros. I have one I use all the time that works well for me. My Combines.mac will repeat a highlighted recipie for you until you run out of components or it hits a specified number of combines. It pauses when you target yourself and gives success/failure info on the run. It does not, however, give any skillup info because I am already maxed on my skills and I honestly dont care about that.

Other people have written a number of macros that will tell you how many skill ups you have gotten, stop you when you get to a certain skill, etc. Some will even run around and buy stuff for you. If thats what you're looking for, do a search and you will probably find several macros to do what you want.

Once you pick one out, save it in your ..\MQ2\Release\Macros folder as <whatever>.mac. Fire up MQ2 then EQ and type /mac <whatever>.

Good luck.

poosader · Post by **poosader** » Sun Aug 15, 2004 7:13 pm

Humm, how do i turn it into one of those icons? paste into notepad?

Chill · Post by **Chill** » Sun Aug 15, 2004 8:09 pm

icons? what icons? copy the macro, paste it into notepad, save as <some macro>.mac in your macro directory like I said above.

This is all after you get MQ2 working by downloading it and compiling with Visual C++ as described in other posts. If you havent made it that far yet, go look in the Help forum before worrying about macros.

Mystic_Blue · Post by **Mystic_Blue** » Mon Jan 24, 2005 5:53 pm

Hmm, I think they may be asking about the same pronblem I am having...

And I think I have found a solution.

I am running XP on my development computer, however I run EQ on a win98 machine. Not sure that matters, but I mention it anyway.

When I cut and paste a .mac or .inc file into notepad, and save it, the resultant file shows up as a text file as the file TYPE, even with .mac or .inc extensions

While the macros included with with the MQ2 release show us a MAC file TYPE. And show a different icon.

The macros cut and pasted into Notepad also will not run.

However, I have found that IF one loads up VS.net and then opens each file in turn, then SAVES AS with changed file type from TEXT FILES to ALL FILES, Then the file type changes to MAC FILE or INCLUDE FILE types.

One can also completly avoid this by opening a blank ( new ) file in VS.net to do the cut and paste into, then save it properly.

aChallenged1 · Post by **aChallenged1** » Mon Jan 24, 2005 6:55 pm

Anytime you save a file you are copying from here, you need to change the save as box to All and give the file the proper extention.

dedpoet · Post by **dedpoet** » Tue Jan 25, 2005 10:33 am

The problem with notepad is that it tacks a .txt extension onto file names by default. So, if you save a file as mymacro.mac, it actually saves as mymacro.mac.txt. However, Windows defaults to not showing file extensions that it knows, which is why you are seeing a text file icon.

If you go to the Tools menu under My Computer and choose Window Options, you can find a check box to turn this behavior off. It varies a little bit depending on OS, but look for something called "Hide extensions of known file types" and turn it off. Now you will see entire file names. You can now find your file that you saved, highlight it, press F2, and get rid of that .txt extension.

If you are considering really getting into macro writing, you'll probably want to look into a more robust text editor such as Ultraedit or Textpad.

aChallenged1 · Post by **aChallenged1** » Tue Jan 25, 2005 3:28 pm

Read my above post, all you have to do is change the "Save As" choice to All instead of the default Text, and name it mymacro.mac