Macro Language Escape

[RiversideGuy]

Most programming have an escape kind of character that, at the start of a line, the subsequent text not executed. It’s a way to comment one’s code… staying with the code. I have a working crafting macro that sometimes takes 2 of the same action but sometimes only one. Tried to leave the 2 in with a “/merror off” but although documented, it doesn’t work. I want to leave both in and just add or delete the escape character. I do not want to be seeing error messages!

[Rongway]

Just add an extra slash at the beginning.

[Jeeqbit]

What about /recasterror off?

You could put /echo at the start instead.

[RiversideGuy]

Thanks guys... interesting results. Either an opening / OR /echo do stop the on-screen error message from happening. However, both DO put a red message in the chat log about "the command xxxx does not exist." Rather look at that then the big onscreen warning!

[Rongway]

Thanks guys... interesting results. Either an opening / OR /echo do stop the on-screen error message from happening. However, both DO put a red message in the chat log about "the command xxxx does not exist." Rather look at that then the big onscreen warning!

You can filter out the chat log messages with /characterconfig > Log Window Settings > Log Filters > Announcements > Error Messages

[RiversideGuy]

Oh I do know there is a “system” setting to suppress all error messages but that seems more a blunderbuss approach. For years and years in that other MMO, I very successfully just surgically suppressed them just for that macro… and it worked 100% as I intended. Then in the past 2 or so years, these started failing me. I did some research and found a lot of advise about using /merror off in ffxiv. But same as over there, that advice was always several years ago… different game but same failure in the macro language.

So I have been rethinking it all and I do have way more macro slots than I’ll probably use, so just make 2 damn macros! I with one progress line, one with 2. Thank god for trial synthesis, I’d be dead without it! Killer feature (I’m just starting to build my crafters).