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I saw this posted on the main boards and though it would be of much better use for us Tailors. You can use this method to effectively map an entire outfit to a single command, enabling you to cycle thorugh outfit choices for potential customers or simply to break out into a lighter set of duds for the warm Tatooine middays. I haven't tried it out myself yet, but the potential is pretty outstanding.

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Accessing Hot Keys In A Macro

Simply use the following command in your macro to access a specific hotkey:

/ui action toolbarSlot[xx]

[xx] is a number 00-23 that directly relates to the slot (two banks of 12 slots, 24 total slots, starting at position 00).

So, if I had a macro or command I wanted to execute in say the third slot on the first row of the toolbar I'd use the following:

/ui action toolbarSlot02

And this leads up to one of the BIGGEST questions ever...

How to Equip/Unequip Items In A Macro

So far, this is the only way I know how to do it since /equip, and /unequip do not work.
Since you have a plethora of toolbars available, place all the items that you want into a toolbar or bars.
I.E. weapons in one part, armor in the next, etc.

To equip, simply use the same command as above, to unequip, call the command again on the same slot.
For example, I have a pistol in the first slot, rifle in the second, and melee in the third. I want to equip my pistol (doing something in between), unequip it and equip my rifle, etc.

/ui action toolbarSlot00 # This equips my pistol
/doaction # I'm doin my thing.
/ui action toolbarSlot01 # I need to equip my rifle
/doaction2 # Taking potshots at the pedestrians from my porch, guzzling beer.
/ui action toolbarSlot02 # Some fat slob's up in my face about shooting his dog, so now I'm gonna beat him
senseless

How To Change Toolbar Panes

Similar to the above, you can change your toolbar panes in a macro. Say I want to have all my weapons in one toolbar, and all my armor in another. In order to use a macro to change to that pane, then call the appropriate slot, I need to first switch to that Toolbar Pane. Let's say I'm using Pane 6.

/ui action toolbarPane05

Again, you actually have 12 toolbar panes, from 00 to 11. Why 12? Well, since each toolbar has two rows of possible slots, each toolbar then has two panes. A pane is a row. Let's leave it at that. You obviously need to be careful as to where you are placing items on your toolbar and remember that if you do NOT have it expanded to two rows, it will always be the odd number that you need to call.

I'm going back to playing now, if anyone wants more detail or has questions, feel free to post and I'll respond when I get a chance. I sure hope devs don't break this functionality (knowing them they might because this now would allow someone to write a macro that calls other macros....ugh).
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So one else thinks this is cool? As a Tailor I can't wait to get home and set up all my hotkeys.

But the beauty of it is that you can make the macro to change multiple clothing articles with one button click. You could just hit F5 to change your shoes, pants, shirt, jacket, hat, and jewelry all at once. And then hit F6 to go back to what you were wearing. The benefits can go even further because this is exactly what armor-wearers have been looking for, a way to get out of their full suit of armor with one button click. Now they might be more willing to buy clothes instead of saying, "No thanks, I wear armor."

We'll see. Might be useful for running a macro for switching from a dress or robe to pants/shirt without flashing people. I can double-click pretty fast, but this way I wouldn't have to.

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Alkiera Kerithor

Kerithor Textiles - Kauri, Corellia, Coronet