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One question about the alias's, how do you unload them?

Well that's simple. Unloading an alias is just /unalias "whatever you named it:" . And the way it currently is if you cut and paste what's already been posted you can get that macro going, just as long as you remember to type the /load dance.txt and then /dma in game. It just won't loop itself .

I'm sure they disabled the looping for the fact that they don't want people not playing to gain xp. So as long as you're at the keyboard the macro is alright by them, just don't step away for more than a half hour .

Okay .. so I can be clear.. I'm going to step out the process.

1. Make a text file.

2. The first line is the name.. just typed in with no ";" at the end.

3. Save the file to my SWG root directory.. (C:\programfiles\sony\swg)

4. in the game type /loadalias NAME

5. Then type /NAME. At that point the macro will start playing.

6. At the end type. /unloadalias NAME

7.A different song can then be /LOADed.

Is that correct? Just to help me visualize the process.

BTW Oss.. 5k till music 4 woot! then another 50000 till musician.. sigh

EDIT the above...

4. in the game type /Load NAME..

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6. At the end type, /unalias NAME..

Thanks for outlining the process for alias-ing macros. I finally figured this out last night and I can tell there is some rich RP potential there. One more question though, let's suppose you've loaded your alias file and are running one of the alias macros - a long long one. Can you make the macro stop mid-way with a command to kill it or is the only way to make it stop logging out?

jolo

ok i am having trouble gettint the macro to stop

i named it music.txt

so all i should have to do is type

/unalias music.txt right?

If you have a loop macro I can see how that would be an issue. Can you walk and stop the music? Is there an end in the txt file?

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Nhoji wrote:

ok i am having trouble gettint the macro to stop

i named it music.txt

so all i should have to do is type

/unalias music.txt right?

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For example you type

/load music.txt -to load your file

then you type /"what?"

whatever that is is what you need to unalias.

/unalias dance:

is what i used for my .txt file that looked like

dance: /startdance rhythmic2; /pause 9; /flourish 2; /pause 9; /flourish 6......

the reason you have to include the : is beyond me but hey..it works to unalis

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Ricas_Chumm wrote:
If you have a loop macro I can see how that would be an issue. Can you walk and stop the music? Is there an end in the txt file?

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You can walk around and stop it but the commands will continue, and you'll be hardpressed to type any long senetences that take more than 9 seconds to type if you're only pausing for that long.

unaliasing should stop it I would assume haven't tried. I stumbled across it trying to figure out a way to bypass the recurssive reader (load one file, do a line, unload that file and load the next...doesnt work btw ).

i solved this problem by creating another command line in the alias

add this anywhere in your text file

stopdancing: /stopdance

actually, i think you can probably just get away with

end:

but i haven't tried it. you can seemingly create any number of commands in your alias file, so you can create only one big file, then use it to play all your songs.

If you've written any lenghty files and are trying to stop them using /unalias [the name of the macro], don't. IT will erase everything you've written till the point where you try to /unalias it.

For example, you've written a song in the alias file and you are halfway through and you want to make the song stop, so you type .unalias [name of song], well you've just lost those song commands up till the point where you typed that.

Hope that makes sense.

I'm still looking for a way to start and stop these alias filed without destroying the code written to execute them.

jolo

the problem i've been having is getting it to execute the next command line.

Line1: /pause 25; /flo 2; /pause 25; /flo 2; /pause 25; /flo 3; /pause 25; /flo 3; /Line2
Line2: /pause 25; /flo 2; /pause 25; /flo 4; /pause 25; /flo 4; /pause 25; /flo 4; /Line3

about 75% of the time, it will end between each line, and thats INCREDIBLY frustrating since i'm trying to put together a nice dance routine + add lyrics eventually... what am i doing wrong???

Looks to me like you need the semi-colon at the end of each line