Canceling Macros

We received feedback in regards to being able to cancel macros in progress and we wanted to let you all know that in patch 1.21 we will be implementing the ability to cancel macros. Macros will be able to be cancelled when pushing the cancel button/ESC key or the macro cancel button (which will also be implemented).

The below two features will be implemented:

• By pressing cancel during the execution of a macro, the subsequent lines of the macro will be canceled.
• By pressing cancel during the execution of a macro and while selecting a sub-target, the subsequent lines of the macro will be canceled.

Yay! /10char

This is good news :-)

I remember back in the XI days we couldn't make macros STOP canceling! :P Multi-macro hating system

Thanks Rukkirii. Great News! ^^

for pad too? (i'll hope it *__*)

This is welcome news :) I will no longer be terrified to use a multi spell macro for fear I cannot cancel it to cast something else.

Ooooh good to know I'm not the only one frustrated by these petty concerns. :P

A few more updates of the macro variety...
For 2.0 it will be possible to have equipment and action-related macros sets specific to each class. We'll also be reworking the system to allow for macros that can be shared on all your classes or used regardless of what class you're on. Also, with the current version, we feel that the number of macros that can be saved are pretty low and the development team is looking into increasing this amount.

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Originally Posted by Bayohne

A few more updates of the macro variety...
For 2.0 it will be possible to have equipment and action-related macros sets specific to each class. We'll also be reworking the system to allow for macros that can be shared on all your classes or used regardless of what class you're on. Also, with the current version, we feel that the number of macros that can be saved are pretty low and the development team is looking into increasing this amount.

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Could you also ask them to look into saving macro position when you log out. Currently if you log out it goes back to first CTRL and ALT line. It dint do that in XI and although it's a small inconvenience maybe they can be made aware of that.

How about relaxing the need to place quotes around item names? I understand the reason for it, but, at the same time, all of the commands which do equipment changes have item names as the final parameter, so isn't it kinda understood where the item's name starts and ends.

It's mostly annoying because I use the auto-translated names in my macros (so when they change the names again... my macros still work). Be easier if I could just drag an item into a macro text though... etc.

In regards to the macro cancel feature that was scheduled to be implemented in patch 1.21, we have proceeded to look into implementation; however, it was determined that it would be difficult to implement with the current system. Due to this we are cannot predict whether or not we can implement this in the current version of the game.

If there is any development I will be sure to let you all know.

It is not a major big issue, i say leave it till 2.0

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Originally Posted by viion

It is not a major big issue, i say leave it till 2.0

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Its so awesome though! Makes my macro setup much simpler lol, but agreed its not really necessary right now. Still if you wanna use skills between combos, you have to break up the combo into multiple macros which is lame lol.

Agreed, the only situation I see this a problem for is when changing gear and we are getting mannequins which will replace the need for that.

So long as cancelling a macro is not done by re-running the macro.
This would make it impossible for me to ever cast reliably since I have no feedback on if its casting ; ;

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Originally Posted by Asiaine

So long as cancelling a macro is not done by re-running the macro.
This would make it impossible for me to ever cast reliably since I have no feedback on if its casting ; ;

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Why not just move, is there really a need for long macros when casting ?