MacroQuest64

Is there any way of determining if an item in the buffcollection happens to be detrimental instead of good?

(other than enumerating every know dot/debuff/ae in the game and comparing names, cause that would suck). I just wanna know if its good or bad, and ill figure something out from there.

Each icon is attached to a certain group of spells. Find the spell numbers for all the debuffs that can be landed on a PC and you could make it work with an /if statement, possibly.

${Me.Buff[1].SpellType} should do it for you, if not use
${Spell[${Me.Buff[1].ID}.SpellType}

should return:
Beneficial(Group), Beneficial, Detrimental, Unknown

not 100%, but it's a start

So you should be able to do something like

Pseudocode as an example?

I think he's just trying to get at making the good (beneficial) spells show one color and the bad (detrimental) spells show another color.

You guys rawk, thanks!

Where do you find the info, or have you just reversed engineered more stuff than I have?

Much of it in the manual, though I sometimes don't quite understand it.
There is a search on the 2nd tab of the manual (Readme.chm) and it does pretty good.

Aye, seems I spend about 3 hours a day reading the FM, and I still feel like I'm flailing about. Also the forum search rairly fails to turn up at least a few hints.

Cr4zyb4rd wrote:${Me.Buff[1].SpellType} should do it for you, if not use
${Spell[${Me.Buff[1].ID}.SpellType}

The first one is the correct one. ${Me.Buff[].ID} returns the buff slot number not the spell ID so the second one won't work. The datatype buff inherits spell but that particular member is overridden, which might be a bit confusing. If you want the spell ID use ${Me.Buff[].Spell.ID}.

Hey, I was close. :)

More help =/

Cant get string comparisons to work....I dont understand the syntax fully, i know its sad.

/if (${String[${Param1].NotEqual[${Me.Name}]})

is from the manual on string comparisons.

so

/if ( ${String[Beneficial].Equal[${Me.Buff[1].SpellType}]} ) { do something here }

Did I totally misunderstand this? Im totally stuck.

Um, that should work I think, but as SpellType is already a string go the other way and do

Cr4zyb4rd wrote:Hey, I was close. :)

You were right.. And wrong at the same time.. Quite an accomplishment :) ..

board_lurker_01 wrote:Cant get string comparisons to work....I dont understand the syntax fully, i know its sad.

That's a typo in the example you quoted, it needs an end brace after ${Param1. I notified wassup who writes the manual. However, the code you posted looks ok, one thing that might cause a problem there is that you have spaces in the beginning and end of your condition, /if ( ${} ) should be /if (${}). The parser can be a little stingy about that kind of stuff sometimes.

Anyway, what Cr4zyb4rd posted is still a better way of doing it so go with that, just figured I would elaborate a little on it :).

Cr4zyb4rd wrote:

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/if (${Me.Buff[1].SpellType.Equal[Beneficial]}) { stuff } 

Close, but assuming you were right with the 4 return values I would actually go the other way and use: if you want to include "Unknown" in with beneficials
or to catch just: "Beneficial(Group)" and "Beneficial"