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I have a question about copying Buttonmaster settings between computers. On computer A, I have everything set up and working correctly. I would like to duplicate that on computer B without having to manually re-create all of the buttons. I have copied the Buttonmaster folder under Lua on computer A. On computer B, I pasted that folder (and sub-folders) under Lua so that side by side they look identical. On computer B, I run the Buttonmaster Lua and the window opens with the correct buttons. Two issues I haven't been able to sort out though. On computer A, I had 4 tabs of buttons. When it opens on computer B, it is missing 1 tab completely. The bigger issue is while the buttons are showing correctly, when I push a button on computer B, nothing happens. Noting shows up in the MQ window and no actions occur. If unassign that button, then manually retype exactly what was there before I unassigned it....it works as intended. Is there something I am doing wrong when copying things across?
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Th majority of the times I have seen this error is when I have 'cleared' a hotkey. What it does it leaves an entry in the .ini file that causes the error. I then have to search through the ini file, find the problem entry, then delete it so it can then load all of the rest of the entries successfully. I will try to replicate the issue and write up an explanation of what is happening and how to fix it. It probably needs to be added t o the FAQ for ButtonMaster
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FWIW, Cannonballdex's modifications (Post #164) fixes the wonky permanent 100 buttons/cutting off buttons unless your button size is 6 issue I had been having. If anyone else was having that issue, give it a try.
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Added a new menu to change the amount of buttons used in the script. It will change on the fly and save to amount to the ini file so when you reload the plugin it will load the correct amount you had previously selected.
If you want to add this as an update to the main script feel free. No credit needed. Just something I added for myself and figured I would share
Have you tried looking at the theme editor? You can access it from the imgui demo off of the console window menu
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Dark mode. This is the way.
Can you give me a bit more detail here? I am unsure how to access this
Kaen pointed me to the direction of the console. /mqconsole show
I will take a look, thanks for the suggestion
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What about the text wrapping?
What about the text wrapping?
It doesnt from what I read.
I’m not sure what you are trying to get at. Yes text does wrap if you want it to wrap. Or not wrap. There are many options.
Known Issues
Button Label wrapping doesn't work, yet. I'm bugging @dannuic to add somethings. If it's important, @ him with some love.
Taken from the Overview tab
Solution is to implement your own labeling behavior rather than using default button text. Basically draw button with no text and then use more powerful text functions on top.
Button text is just basic only. As with most things in ImGui you’re given a lot of building blocks you can use to customize if the simple defaults don’t work for you
Not sure what dannuic has to do with this but this was info I shared long time ago. Think that’s part of the problem with this not being updated in so long
Button text is just basic only. As with most things in ImGui you’re given a lot of building blocks you can use to customize if the simple defaults don’t work for you
Not sure what dannuic has to do with this but this was info I shared long time ago. Think that’s part of the problem with this not being updated in so long
Mq uses timed. Not delay or pause, those are eq
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/timed uses decaseconds, so /timed 50 would be 5 seconds
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did you make a hotkey leading with a number?
Turns out I did (not intentionally) and removing it in the ini fixed the issue. Thanks!
I am having a few issues popping up with BM....for some time I have had an issue where if I attempted to resize the button master window or move it in anyway it would immediately freeze the account. Starting today, when use a hot button /Lua run buttonmaster it fires up but it loads with the window rolled up so I normally hit the little dropdown arrow on the left side of the bm title bar and it expands the window to show all the buttons. Now when I go to expand the window it completely locks up the account. Need to use task editor to kill the instance and relaunch it. Is there anything I can do to fix it?
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For buttonmaster, the little issue with the wrapping hiding a button depending on exactly how wide it is. I think I found a quick and easy solution if you can see if it would work for your source.
Line 415 has the calculation for the columns. I increased the 5 at the end to 8, and it seems to make it much better at not actually hiding a button completely. I tested it with quite a few different button sizes, but not all of them, since I normally have my button size
local cols = math.floor(ImGui.GetWindowSize() / (btnSize + 8))
Line 415 has the calculation for the columns. I increased the 5 at the end to 8, and it seems to make it much better at not actually hiding a button completely. I tested it with quite a few different button sizes, but not all of them, since I normally have my button size
local cols = math.floor(ImGui.GetWindowSize() / (btnSize + 8))
So I made some change to my buttons, and now the UI keeps crashing. I tried to download the latest updates, but the download zip does not contain the buttonmaster.Lua file. It only has the util and LIP files. Where can I get the latest buttonmaster Lua?
This is the error that I am getting
This is the error that I am getting
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Do you have a button starting with a number? this is the most common crash issue with BM.
I checked the ini, but I can not find any labels that start with a number.
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Looks like one of your buttons may have a syntax issue of some sort and make sure you are not duplicating a button index. So check your ini file and make sure each
[Button_#] is unique and properly defined.
Code:
[Button_5]
ButtonColorRGB=14,96,10
Cmd1=/cwtna pause 0
Label=Pause OFF
[Button_6]
Cmd1=/dgge /keypress forward hold
Cmd2=/dgge /timed 20 /keypress forward
Label=Fwrd MarchArcaneProphet
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Looking at my setup, I have the latest version which stores everything inside the \Lua\buttonmaster folder instead of root of Lua. So it runs the init.Lua file when you
/lua run buttonmasterYou could try extracting the buttonmaster folder from the download and putting it in your \Lua folder. Move the other buttonmaster.Lua into a backup somewhere and then try it.
OK that worked. Even got the new button size thing. I think what was crashing me is that I tried to rename the Primary tab to Group. It doesn't seem to like that. I will rebuild my buttons and see if it gets stable. Thanks for the info.
hi @orbitz , I just saw your post, yes it is to close the popup. add a /bcg if you wish for control to the group
/notify AlertWnd ALW_Dismiss_Button leftmouseup
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Not sure if this has been posted but I do know that one of the common errors is that if your button master button starts with a number it bricks the config.
an easy way to reproduce this on accident that should probably be coded out (check if cmd1-5 are empty?)
1. open button master
2. "Create new" on a button with a number
3. without editing "Save"
4. log out and when you login wonder why you can't launch buttonmaster
^^^ example of a button that was created that bricked my buttonmaster
an easy way to reproduce this on accident that should probably be coded out (check if cmd1-5 are empty?)
1. open button master
2. "Create new" on a button with a number
3. without editing "Save"
4. log out and when you login wonder why you can't launch buttonmaster
^^^ example of a button that was created that bricked my buttonmaster
How to make it Black, this is great.
Also,
When you open up a button to type in text into the box, could that box be expandable. When typing or editing buttons with multilines, it is quite the hassle if you can not see all the line.
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I'm not saying this is the best fix or that I'm smart but I really hate doing troubleshooting with my friends on why their buttonmaster doesn't work so I've found this fixes the issue
where adding the '#' ..
fixes the issue with the initial buttons labels starting with a number when someone doesn't change the label and then saves
this has the unintended side effect of making the buttons look like this
which is still preferable to troubleshooting to me
Code:
local GetButtonBySetIndex = function(Set, Index)
return settings[settings[Set][Index]] or { Unassigned = true, Label = '#' .. tostring(Index) }
endwhere adding the '#' ..
fixes the issue with the initial buttons labels starting with a number when someone doesn't change the label and then saves
this has the unintended side effect of making the buttons look like this
which is still preferable to troubleshooting to me
You have to apply a theme to it. It requires some minor edits to the buttonmaster init.Lua and you need two "theme" files that go in the same folder as the init.Lua.
Then when you run it you run as /Lua run buttonmaster "themeName" For example the black is /Lua run buttonmaster Deth
The theme name are case sensitive
I have attached my ButtonMaster folder is has the files and the edits
You can open the themes.Lua file in a text editor to see the names of available themes