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Before i get bashed here, note that i sometimes just get sick of pushing buttons and typing /flourish all the time, it's extremely annoying especially if you are in a nice conversation, which happens to be the case quite often in cantinas, this isn't about unattended macroing for hours or something.

the 5 hour macro thing was just a test.

you can't do aliases that refer to other aliases in order to have a looping macro. If you want to run your macro more than once you will need to type it out more than once. You can set up alias's out of game using a wordprocesser and cutting and pasting (not sure of the file but there is a post on it either here in the entertainer section or in the dancer section) or you can do it in game using cut and paste but you will need to assign keys for cut and paste in your keymap.

My basic macro which I use mainly while at the keyboard so that I can talk and greet folks as well as run my flourish's together with the proper timing and not have as much jerky basic steps will run through flo 1-4 (most advanced dances only have 4 flourishs) about 6 times each.

Just as a point of reference each dance flourish has a differing time for some dances a /pause 15 would be sufficent but for many you will need at least /pause 17 and in cases like lyrical /pause 24.

I have a macro that calls an alias over and over, but it is only 10 minutes long. I think there is a time limit on macros and aliases.

you can't do aliases that refer to other aliases in order to have a looping macro. If you want to run your macro more than once you will need to type it out more than once. You can set up alias's out of game using a wordprocesser and cutting and pasting (not sure of the file but there is a post on it either here in the entertainer section or in the dancer section) or you can do it in game using cut and paste but you will need to assign keys for cut and paste in your keymap.

My basic macro which I use mainly while at the keyboard so that I can talk and greet folks as well as run my flourish's together with the proper timing and not have as much jerky basic steps will run through flo 1-4 (most advanced dances only have 4 flourishs) about 6 times each.

Just as a point of reference each dance flourish has a differing time for some dances a /pause 15 would be sufficent but for many you will need at least /pause 17 and in cases like lyrical /pause 24.

Hello everybody,

from time to time i like to alt+tab out of SWG to read something on the boards or surf the web while getting my dancing up a bit and i have been wondering if there is a way to set up a macro for dancing.

i have seen on www.swgcenter.com that there is one for sampling and i tried to "clone" a macro similiar to it, based on the information that i have found there... unfortunately i cannot get it to work properly... i get recursion alerts all the time when i set up the aliases and run the "end-product" eventually.

Here is what i had so far:

First of all i wanted a Macro to go through all the flourishes once... so i went ahead and did:

/alias DanceOnce /flourish 1;/pause 15;/flourish 2;/pause 15;/flourish 3;/pause 15;/flourish 4;/pause 15;/flourish 5;/pause 15;/flourish 6;/pause 15;/flourish 7;/pause 15;/flourish 8;/pause 15

So whenever i'd type in /danceonce it would do 8 flourishes and then stop.
Ok, as you might guess, this doesn't cut it, because 1 flourish takes approximately 15 seconds (thus the /pause 15), am i correct on that one?

So going through all 8 flourishes takes, you guessed it, 15 times 8 = 120

Now i read on swgcenter.com that his basis is a 720 second macro, so i made another alias:

/alias Dance6times /DanceOnce;/pause 120;/DanceOnce;/pause 120;/DanceOnce;/pause 120;/DanceOnce;/pause 120;/DanceOnce;/pause 120;/DanceOnce;/pause 120

You get the picture...

One hour is 3600 seconds, 720 times 5,so i made a 1 hour macro:

/alias Dance1Hr /Dance6times;/pause 720;/Dance6times;/pause 720;/Dance6times;/pause 720;/Dance6times;/pause 720;/Dance6times;/pause 720

And let's say a 5 hour macro would be:

/alias Dance5Hr /Dance1Hr;/pause 3600;/Dance1Hr;/pause 3600;/Dance1Hr;/pause 3600;/Dance1Hr;/pause 3600;/Dance1Hr;/pause 3600

So i thought when i type in /Dance5Hr;/pause 18000 it would run for 5 hours straight (not that i'd have enough action points for it, but that could be tweaked later)... in theory it should work, unfortunately i get Recursion "Errors" already after it has run through the first alias (DanceOnce), so in fact i only goes through the 8 flourishes and then stops.

What am i doing wrong here? I don't think that i have a typo somewhere, i checked that already, so what's the matter? Can anybody here help me out?

This is the best thing i could come up with.. a forever looping macro, that you can interupt and stop ...

I created a Macro (ctrl+a) with the following

/flourish 1;/pause 40;/flourish 2;/pause 40;/flourish 3;/pause 40;/flourish 4;/pause 40;/flourish 5;/pause 40;/flourish 6;/pause 40;/flourish 7;/pause 40;/flourish 8;/pause 40;/ui action toolbarSlot23

Then i place a shortcut for that macro into the lowest most right hand slot on my 2x12 quickbar slots.

That will loop that command forever, if you want to interupt it, remove the macro from that slot on the toolbar, when i gets round to it, it wont be in that slot to re-call.. i hope that makes sense..

That's perfect for my rodian as he never has any downtime i can flourish forever and not dent my action bar, add in a /pause xx , for whatever downtime you need