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Default Quick Cast Buttons & Cures guide

Quick Cast Buttons & Cures Guide

When editing your quick cast and cures buttons in-game, you'll be prompted with a pop-up window. The first field is un-editable. This is purposefully implemented so you know which edit button you recently clicked and from a developer standpoint makes it easier to make sure things are working correctly.

You'll find a similar description of "guidelines" listed right in the window:
Quote:
- use commands without the slashes (one command per line)
- MYSELF is a variable for your own name
- SELECTED is a variable for group/raid member being casted on
- wrap special characters in single quotes, ie: hello'!!!'
- Spells/abilities with quotes in them require a GAME RESTART after saving but is suggested to use the spell id instead

All of the Quick Cast & Cure buttons save between sessions and are saved by character name, so you can configure all of your toons separately!

Basic examples were included in the Self Cure options, and the Group/Raid buttons included a guideline filler to get each user started.



Basic functions:
  • The buttons are basically fully-functionally command macros. They work like a normal macro would, but you don't need to include the slashes on the commands.
  • All commands should be on separate line
  • Included in the code are 2 variables that you can make use of in any hot button, as many times as you would like
    • MYSELF: This will use your player's name
    • SELECTED: This will use the player's name of the corresponding quick cast/cure button from the Raid or Group windows
    • Make sure to leave a space before and after these variables so that they are read properly!
  • Having separate options set to self cures and raid cures can allow healers, who sometimes cannot cure him or herself, an opportunity to setup a hotkey to annouce they're debuffed

Example Self Cure Curse:
Code:
raid Curse on MYSELF and I cannot cure
gsay Curse on MYSELF and I cannot cure
Example Group/Raid Cure Curse:
Code:
useabilityonplayer SELECTED "Cure Curse"
raid Curing curse on SELECTED
gsay Curing curse on SELECTED



Special Characters
  • Special characters do not play friendly within the XML code
  • You will need to wrap your sentence or spell name in normal ("double") quotes to have them work properly in game
  • Several characters include: ' / * + - > < ( ) ! (not all of these are tested)

Example Quick Cast button:
Code:
useabilityonplayer SELECTED "Ro's Blessing"
gsay I think SELECTED "needs some **help**!! They're going to need a hand or two!"
Output: You tell the party, "I think Drumstix needs some **help**!! They're going to need a hand or two!"




Limitations!
  • Wrap spell names in double quotes, especially spell names with apostrophes.
    • International servers will have trouble using plain text
    • The best alternative to this is to try to find your SPELL ID number for spells/abilities:
      • See this topic for detailed info on finding spell ID numbers.

You no longer have to relog with spells that have single quotes, as the wrapping of double quotes will save you the trouble.

It is a very quick process to edit your buttons in game!
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I'll be updating the above guide to reflect this, but I figured out a solution to avoid needing to ever relog with spell names that have an apostrophe in it.

Simply wrap the whole spell name in double quotes and it'll work just fine.
Ex:
useabilityonplayer SELECTED "Garsin's Funeral March"
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Default item use

how exactly would you word item use for another person?...been messing with using necrotic flashpots for the quick cast buttons, but have yet to get it to work.
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how exactly would you word item use for another person?...been messing with using necrotic flashpots for the quick cast buttons, but have yet to get it to work.
This has been asked in a few others threads, but items cannot be directly casted on another player. You will always have to first target them.

But basically:
target SELECTED
use_itemvdl -661875382
Some will agree that targeting and casting will sometimes be undependable due to server lag but there isn't much you can do there. Would just have to resort to clicking it more than once if the cure isn't successful the first time.
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thx i was doing that until i got a reply on how to do it like a spell but since that isn't possible i guess it was right.....thx for the fast response
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Hi,

I have been a fan of your work and it's amazing! Keep it up!

Just a quick qtn regarding the commanding setting for potion.

How do I add:
\aITEM 99234158 1476826067:Focused Arcane Remedy\/a

to: use_itemvdl

in the command settings editor for the self cure?
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Ok i simply cant fingure it out

I have made a quick cast button for Jester's Cap.

But what is the command so the person gets a tell when i cast it on him.
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Something like this:
useabilityonplayer SELECTED "Jester's Cap"
tell SELECTED "You have Jester's Cap"
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Hi,

I have been a fan of your work and it's an awesome UI!

I am unable to use the self cure button for noxious. The error msg "the item no longer exists or is not in inventory" appears when I tried to use \aITEM -1222056897 -1511728904:Focused Noxious Remedy\/a ,

Tried both numbers but doesn't work:
use_itemvdl 1222056897
use_itemvdl 1511728904

Will appreciate your help on this!
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It looks like you are missing the negative symol in front of your number. But refer to my reply #8, a few above yours:
http://www.eq2interface.com/forums/s...68&postcount=8

Just do the in-game "Default" button method or use the following instead of messing with the numbers:
cureplayer SELF noxious item

*edit* Whoops:
cureplayer SELF noxious potion
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It looks like you are missing the negative symol in front of your number. But refer to my reply #8, a few above yours:
http://www.eq2interface.com/forums/s...68&postcount=8

Just do the in-game "Default" button method or use the following instead of messing with the numbers:
cureplayer SELF noxious item
Sweet, thanks for the help!
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Hi there,
In a nutshell I have been using Profit for like 8 years and just today made the switch to Drums...reason being I needed the spell-timers for my tanks. While setting up my plethora of toons I have come across the issue of not being able to use the clic cures in the group window. I left them on default and tried dropping the item number line and all I get is the message (only when crafting). This occurs whether I am using potions or spells depending on the toon. Any suggestions?...
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Talking I'm still having this problem on my mages.

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Hi there,
In a nutshell I have been using Profit for like 8 years and just today made the switch to Drums...reason being I needed the spell-timers for my tanks. While setting up my plethora of toons I have come across the issue of not being able to use the clic cures in the group window. I left them on default and tried dropping the item number line and all I get is the message (only when crafting). This occurs whether I am using potions or spells depending on the toon. Any suggestions?...
I was hoping for a "cure" (ha - see what I did there?) for this problem as well. Everything works great for my healers, but my mages get the "only when crafting" message as well.

Thanks for all you've done. I still love this UI & I just refuse to give up on it!
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