Question - Passing arguments to /macro

[Soandso2]

The documentation tells me I can pass parameters to a macro when starting it with /macro like this:
[CODE title="Arguments"]/macro MyMacro "metal bits"[/CODE]
But I cannot for the life of me find anywhere how I pick up this/these values in the macro. It is probably dead easy but my eyes are tired and I have spent 30 minutes googling/reading the documentation for a "how to" but I just cannot find it.

 

[wired420]

You'll want to look into https://www.redguides.com/docs/projects/macroquest/reference/data-types/datatype-macro/ specifically the Params so you can count the number of arguments easy

then you access those parameters like ${Param0} ${Param1} etc...

This project of mine is pretty basic and uses arguments from runtime that you can look at. It shows the error checking you can do to make sure it's not just a blank space or out of scope or whatever. You're looking for around line 93

Trade / Skill - AbilityTrainer.mac

Just start it, and it'll figure out what it needs to do with the abilities it supports. See Instructions for more advanced startup methods. Supports: Non-combat Skills: Feign Death Mend Sneak Hide Tracking Begging (Disabled by DPG) Combat...

www.redguides.com

 

[aquietone]

instead of trying to figure out how to do things in macro language, you could always try to figure out how to do them in Lua instead!

local mq = require('mq')

local args = {...}
print(args[1])

while true do
    printf('Doing something interesting with all my %s', args[1])
    if mq.TLO.FindItemCount(args[1])() == 0 then
        printf('i ran out of %s', args[1])
        break
    end
    mq.delay(1000)
end

 

[Soandso2]

You'll want to look into https://www.redguides.com/docs/projects/macroquest/reference/data-types/datatype-macro/ specifically the Params so you can count the number of arguments easy

then you access those parameters like ${Param0} ${Param1} etc...

This project of mine is pretty basic and uses arguments from runtime that you can look at. It shows the error checking you can do to make sure it's not just a blank space or out of scope or whatever. You're looking for around line 93

Trade / Skill - AbilityTrainer.mac

Just start it, and it'll figure out what it needs to do with the abilities it supports. See Instructions for more advanced startup methods. Supports: Non-combat Skills: Feign Death Mend Sneak Hide Tracking Begging (Disabled by DPG) Combat...

www.redguides.com

Thank you. Works now.

 

[Sic]

You can check out the "Passed Parameters" in the MQ docs under subroutines

Subroutines - MacroQuest Docs

docs.macroquest.org