Bio Engineer Archive

/pause X;

its thats simple, X = seconds u wanna pause (might not be seconds, but u can test it until u get the right pause)

im pretty sure its seconds. The macro language is pretty robust...there are tons of commands that are not documented. Just the other day a friend of mine told me two commands that could open your craft kit and select the draft schematic from the list with one button press.

Is it possible to create a macro, and for instance name it /xyz with commands and such in the body, and then after you finished creating it type /xyz in the chatbar to use the macro?

Or, is the only way to use macros is to place the icon in the toolbar and click on it with the mousepointer, or to press the corresponding function key?

Trial and error goes a long way . You can also use the /alias command if you really want to:

/alias xyz /com1; /com2; /com3;

that should work as well. Then you can just do /xyz in the chatbar

To make a / command you need to make an alias. Which works basicaly just like a macro:

/alias xyz /command one; command two; so on; and so forth;

which can then be accessed by typeing /xyz. Works for chat commands to:

/alias gc /guild.0000000.GuildChat

would let you just type /gc [msg] to send guild msges.

I normaly make alias' then make my macros point to them. It's just more convienent, you can access the same thing multiple ways just like the commands that are already there. Thats a bit more then you asked for but the answer is there

If a box pops up and the option is a button that says OK, how would I type a macro to select the button OK?

You can remove the confirmation buttons in crafting through the options menu's.

That's not what I wanted. when surveying I get a window popup that needs me to select OK. I want to add that to my macro.

Can I add the <ESC> key to a macro? If so, how do I do it?

Macros can only control in game functions. Pressing the <esc> key happens outside the game so in short no you cant. There are various macro programs that can do this but in most cases that use third party software that will violate the EULA (please dont post arguing this point here). Also hardware such as Microsofts Strategic Commander can do keyboard macros but again this MIGHT be considered again the EULA but its not very clearly worded to cover this case.

If you dont want to risk getting banned I would steer clear of any othe the above as it does say in the EULA that they can ban you for pretty much any reason they like so you would have to fight it out in court if you really wanted to test the point and SOE can afford a bib courtcase but most of US cant.

Grr thats big court case of course. (why cant i edit my posts for a few minutes after posting at least grrr)

I don't disagree that there's no <ESC> available in macros, but I would like to iterate that most ASCII characters can be put into macros, and the <ESC> key generates an ASCII character just like the letters 'A' - 'z' or the number '0' - '9'. It should be possible.

How do you simulate or press keys in a macro.
for example *#,3* key.
I tried searching for it but couldn't find it.