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Release Button Master 05/09/2026

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Deth24 said:
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
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Some pretty kick ass stuff there!
 
So I guess I own this project now. Here are some updates in my personal version that I have brought over:

1) Settings are now stored in pickled Lua files - TL;DR: If you want to make changes look for buttonmaster.Lua instead of buttonmaster.ini in the configs folder.
2) The first time you run this version it will take your INI and convert it to a Lua pickle config.
3) Fixed some legacy bugs with naming buttons as numbers
4) Fixed an issue where when running on multiple characters the config could get corrupted if you made modifications across the different characters.
5) As part of #4, all updates are now instant across clients. That is to say if you have a Utils Tab across all your clients and you add a new button or change an existing one, the change takes effect across all clients immediately instead of requiring a manual reload.
6) There is a context menu option under Settings to replicate the size/position of the window across all clients if you have OCD like me.
7) There is probably a #7 thing but I can't think of it.
 
Derple said:
So I guess I own this project now. Here are some updates in my personal version that I have brought over:

1) Settings are now stored in pickled lua files - TL;DR: If you want to make changes look for buttonmaster.lua instead of buttonmaster.ini in the configs folder.
2) The first time you run this version it will take your INI and convert it to a lua pickle config.
3) Fixed some legacy bugs with naming buttons as numbers
4) Fixed an issue where when running on multiple characters the config could get corrupted if you made modifications across the different characters.
5) As part of #4, all updates are now instant across clients. That is to say if you have a Utils Tab across all your clients and you add a new button or change an existing one, the change takes effect across all clients immediately instead of requiring a manual reload.
6) There is a context menu option under Settings to replicate the size/position of the window across all clients if you have OCD like me.
7) There is probably a #7 thing but I can't think of it.
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I will go update MQ and this Lua soon, but I may as well ask while I'm here, Is the scrolling issue fixed, where I can have a window displaying 10 buttons (as example) and be able to scroll down to see the other 60 buttons?
Congrats on having this as yours now! wtg!
 
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If I do a /dg /Lua run buttonmaster I get the spammed out LoadSettings error. If I load it one at a time I get the Unable to Load Global Settings Error every time.
 
Got most of it fixed. it Converted to the Lua but the ini still in the config folder was messing it up.
 
Still getting the second error when I load up the Lua. Changes aren't synchronized.
 
burdsjm said:
Still getting the second error when I load up the lua. Changes aren't synchronized.
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I pushed a fix for the first issue - basically if it was doing the convsion it could cause a retry storm across all clients - this shouldn't happen if the convert is working though. Is the ButtonMaster.Lua file getting created for you under your configs? Because from the second error it looks like maybe your configs dir is readonly or something?
 
@Derple If you know this issue, please ignore my post. 😁
My buttons have to be like this, so I can scroll to have access :
1705702762324.png I would like it to be this size to save real estate, but it will not scroll down to have access to the lower buttons: 1705702827180.png

Post #180 by CannonballDex seems to have that issue solved, but I am unsure how to implement it. There is a init there.
Cannonballdex said:
Happens when you mess with the button size. :)

I use a 50 button box on 3.5, your welcome to try my init file.
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Thanks.
 
Redfrog said:
@Derple If you know this issue, please ignore my post. 😁
My buttons have to be like this, so I can scroll to have access :
View attachment 56255 I would like it to be this size to save real estate, but it will not scroll down to have access to the lower buttons: View attachment 56256

Post #180 by CannonballDex seems to have that issue solved, but I am unsure how to implement it. There is a init there.

Thanks.
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Pushed a change where it will use the LARGER of the two:

1) Number of buttons that have been defined
2) Number of buttons based on row/col count

This way it will always show buttons you have defined even if it has to draw a scroll bar for it.
 
Yo, have tried multiple times to get the .ini to convert over to the Lua config. Have reinstalled the update, deleted the Lua config and started/stopped buttonmaster multiple times in game - each time it creates a new buttonmaster.Lua in the config folder with default settings. Not getting any conversions. Do you have any advice for me to get this working?
 
I had deleted the buttonmaster folder was doing a fresh download - I caught your update at 7:04 and it worked beautifully... all those buttons lit up like a christmas tree. Thanks derple.
 
0ptic said:
all of my buttons are gone logging in today. any ideas?
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I lost all my btn too, but
I updated the newest version, backup my old ini and Lua config then delete them, stop current running btnmaster,
then restart btnmaster, it generated new Lua config automatically and now everything is back :)
 
delfnec said:
I lost all my btn too, but
I updated the newest version, backup my old ini and lua config then delete them, stop current running btnmaster,
then restart btnmaster, it generated new lua config automatically and now everything is back :)
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thanks! stopped button master, deleted buttonmaster.Lua (kept my buttonmaster.ini intact) and ran buttonmaster again and it's fixed.
 
Afaik all the bugs are fixed in the latest pushes last night. The changes so far will never delete data - in that your .ini files will remain in tact and will be reconverted anytime a .Lua file doesn't exist in the config directory. So it is not possible to lose data (which is good). So if anyone has empty buttons all you need to do is go into the config directory and delete ButtonMaster.Lua and your ButtonMaster.ini will reconvert.
 
Derple said:
Afaik all the bugs are fixed in the latest pushes last night. The changes so far will never delete data - in that your .ini files will remain in tact and will be reconverted anytime a .lua file doesn't exist in the config directory. So it is not possible to lose data (which is good). So if anyone has empty buttons all you need to do is go into the config directory and delete ButtonMaster.lua and your ButtonMaster.ini will reconvert.
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feel free to re-upload (or even delete the rollback), folks on discord this morning were having a bad time so i just posted a revert
 
@Sic and @Derple
I gotta admit I was a little trepid to update, but I did late last night after Derple's update and it worked flawlessly. All my buttons there and the Window size reshapable with the scroll function working properly. Just giving feedback.
 
@Derple
I did this change, and it worked really nice. Helps to have a wider place to type long lines. Not actually sizable, but super easy addition. Posting the quote below (and I have tested it with your latest update that I mention in previous post).
Upon Edit, the typing area is much wider. Nice. Credit to CannonballDex post #161
Cannonballdex said:
This won't make it resizable but it will give you extra room. Find this section local HandleEdit = function(Set, Index, Key, Prop) and add the next two lines.
Code: 
local HandleEdit = function(Set, Index, Key, Prop)
    ImGui.SetCursorPosX(0)
    ImGui.PushItemWidth(1000)
    local txt, selected = ImGui.InputText(Prop, tmpButton[Key][Prop] or '', 0)
    if selected then
        -- if theres no value, nil the key so we don't save empty command lines
        if txt:len() > 0 then
            tmpButton[Key][Prop] = txt
        else
            tmpButton[Key][Prop] = nil
        end
    end
end
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I think people have a lot of setups that I would never think to check and it is exposing bugs in both how the script is written and within the core mq libraries.

Just to get to where we are today, I've had to push 2 changes to the mq c++ code.

SO!

To solve that problem I am going to make a test branch and let people play with it for a few weeks before pushing any more changes into the main branch.
Redfrog said:
@Derple
I did this change, and it worked really nice. Helps to have a wider place to type long lines. Not actually sizable, but super easy addition. Posting the quote below (and I have tested it with your latest update that I mention in previous post).
Upon Edit, the typing area is much wider. Nice. Credit to CannonballDex post #161
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Check out the beta thread here:

www.redguides.com

Utility - ButtonMaster Beta

This is the testing resource for ButtonMaster. Since use-cases for BM are so varied this will act as a testing branch that will contain updates for at least 1 week before they are pushed to the mainline.
www.redguides.com www.redguides.com

You wont be able to use this until RG does a push of some more core fixes though.
 
I just came across this ButtonMaster today and I have been switching over from using basic ingame macros and hotbars to this. Very nice but I came across a use case that I wanted to do.
So, I prolly wasted too much time on this when I could of just copied and pasted a buttons previous commands into the new button but I wanted to see it through so.
The initial goal was to be able to reuse other button commands sort of being able to link them together, and if I need to update a button the changes are in one place vs if they were copied and pasted from other buttons.

My case study is I have a button macro that does a several commands that ends macro(kissassist), stops casting etc. Just clean up. I also have a button that for camping out that does the same thing but adds /dgae /camp.
I wanted to reuse the button I had already made, we shall call it cleanup for this example and not have to repaste the same command lines etc into the camp out button.

Below is my attempt at this and is based off the init.Lua that is modified by Deth24 on using the themes.

Usage is if you wish to link to another button the command you use is /pullbtncmd # where # is the button number in the ini.
So for this example we will use button # 130, which is listed in the ini as Button_130 key.
You will need to look in your ini to get the correct button you want linked.

NOTE: I made this to be recursive so it really has no max on how many buttons can be linked. Infinite loops beware. You need to have a button eventually that does not call another button. :NOTE

This is the ini entry for 130 button in my example.
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Main Button
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This will call the commands saved to button 130 in the ini and run them in order.

This is button 130.
1705796521344.png

So we should see a cheer, laugh emote then MQ should register an invalid command as I am checking for those then a final dance coming from the first button.

Clicking TestBtn1 has this behavior
1705796558604.png
and in MQ window
1705796575368.png

So that is what we see.

I attached the Lua and a recommendation is I use a program called BeyondCompare, it does side by side comparison so it's useful to see the changes.
Code could use some work as I been out the coding game for a while but this was a fun project.
Some menu items could be added to look up buttons etc but yeah this needs some testing, but initial tests show promise.
 

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NipBiter said:
I just came across this ButtonMaster today and I have been switching over from using basic ingame macros and hotbars to this. Very nice but I came across a use case that I wanted to do.
So, I prolly wasted too much time on this when I could of just copied and pasted a buttons previous commands into the new button but I wanted to see it through so.
The initial goal was to be able to reuse other button commands sort of being able to link them together, and if I need to update a button the changes are in one place vs if they were copied and pasted from other buttons.

My case study is I have a button macro that does a several commands that ends macro(kissassist), stops casting etc. Just clean up. I also have a button that for camping out that does the same thing but adds /dgae /camp.
I wanted to reuse the button I had already made, we shall call it cleanup for example and not have to repaste the same command lines etc into the camp out button.

Below is my attempt at this and is based off the init.lua that is modified by Deth24 on using the themes.

Usage is if you wish to link to another button the command you use is /pullbtncmd # where # is the button number in the ini. so for this example we will use button # 130, which is listed in the ini as Button_130 key.
You will need to look in your ini to get the correct button you want linked.

NOTE: I made this to be recursive so it really has no max on how many buttons can be linked. Infinite loops beware. You need to have a button eventually that does not call another button. :NOTE

This is the 130 button in my example.
View attachment 56352

Main Button
View attachment 56347
This will call the commands saved to button 130 in the ini and run then in order.

This is button 130
View attachment 56348

so we should see a cheer, laugh emote then MQ should register a invalid command as I am checking for those then a final dance coming from the first button.

Clicking TestBtn1 has this behavior
View attachment 56349
and in MQ window
View attachment 56350

So that is what we see.

I attached the lua and a recommendation is I use a program called BeyondCompare, it does side by side comparsion so its useful to see the changes.
Code could use some work as I been out the coding game for a while but this was a fun project. Some menu items could be added to look up buttons etc but yeah this needs some testing but initial tests show promise.
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buttonmasters going through some significant changes so you might want to try and apply your changes on the new buttonmaster beta resource that was created today instead.

Recommend VSCode for majority of your needs btw, including comparing files. And grab the mq-defs extension if you don't have it.
 
aquietone said:
buttonmasters going through some significant changes so you might want to try and apply your changes on the new buttonmaster beta resource that was created today instead.

Recommend VSCode for majority of your needs btw, including comparing files. And grab the mq-defs extension if you don't have it.
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Yeah I'll have to check that out, prolly better then using Notepad++.

Deth24 version looked to be based off what was available in the patcher as of today so yeah it may need tweaked. I just stuck this together this afternoon.
 
NipBiter said:
Yeah I'll have to check that out, prolly better then using Notepad++.

Deth24 version looked to be based off what was available in the patcher as of today so yeah it may need tweaked. I just stuck this together this afternoon.
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I went ahead and removed the cmd count restriction in BM beta. You should be able to do as many commands as you like. Give it a look.
 
Been using this for a while now, love it. The only minor issue I have is coming back from alt+tab my mouse grabs a random button or the panel its self and begins dragging it with my mouse. Would love a lock button similar to boxhud's so this does not happen.
 
dustinisgod said:
Been using this for a while now, love it. The only minor issue I have is coming back from alt+tab my mouse grabs a random button or the panel its self and begins dragging it with my mouse. Would love a lock button similar to boxhud's so this does not happen.
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Check out the beta version. many new features there.

www.redguides.com

Utility - ButtonMaster Beta

This is the testing resource for ButtonMaster. Since use-cases for BM are so varied this will act as a testing branch that will contain updates for at least 1 week before they are pushed to the mainline.
www.redguides.com www.redguides.com
 
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