Problem - Guild Buff Assistant Macro No Longer working

[Medicman]

I am logging my buff toons in game and logging into server /bccmd connect and then /mac buffbot and it is no longer working. If I missed something that pertains to this, I apologize ...but they will no longer buff anyone. Any idea or suggestion that I might be missing ...never had an issue with it before.

 

[Sic]

I am logging my buff toons in game and logging into server /bccmd connect and then /mac buffbot and it is no longer working. If I missed something that pertains to this, I apologize ...but they will no longer buff anyone. Any idea or suggestion that I might be missing ...never had an issue with it before.

hi medicman,

this is likely because you're using tells and eq broke something with receiving tells adding an extra space where "/tell bob hi" is received as "hi "

until they fix this you will likely need to address this in how you are doing the tell events

I'm going to rename your thread because "ever since last update / patch" is not a good thread title

 

[Medicman]

hi medicman,

this is likely because you're using tells and eq broke something with receiving tells adding an extra space where "/tell bob hi" is received as "hi "

until they fix this you will likely need to address this in how you are doing the tell events

I'm going to rename your thread because "ever since last update / patch" is not a good thread title

Thanks for responding. They are hailed by each toon to receive the buffs. Do I need to alter something in the .ini file for this macro in order for it to work?

hi medicman,

this is likely because you're using tells and eq broke something with receiving tells adding an extra space where "/tell bob hi" is received as "hi "

until they fix this you will likely need to address this in how you are doing the tell events

I'm going to rename your thread because "ever since last update / patch" is not a good thread title

I also agree with you that the title doesn't say much >

 

[Sic]

wel, if you are using an event for tell/say receiving, you'd want to use a wildcard at the end, or do something to strip the extra space off the end


opening up your macro, you are looking for things like 'toys' but eq is now reporting 'toys ' with the extra blank space at the end.
you can see this using two characters
/say hi on one character and look at what they say vs on another screen

 

[Medicman]

wel, if you are using an event for tell/say receiving, you'd want to use a wildcard at the end, or do something to strip the extra space off the end


opening up your macro, you are looking for things like 'toys' but eq is now reporting 'toys ' with the extra blank space at the end.
you can see this using two characters
/say hi on one character and look at what they say vs on another screen

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I don't now if it is the same issue or not, but BuffBot2 will not work for me either. That macro is not mine so I don't know if it is the same issue or not

 

[Sic]

I don't now if it is the same issue or not, but BuffBot2 will not work for me either. That macro is not mine so I don't know if it is the same issue or not

medic,

the issue is going to exist for *anything* using events with tells or say, please take a look at the stuff i shared above, i explain what is happening and how to fix it

 

[Medicman]

medic,

the issue is going to exist for *anything* using events with tells or say, please take a look at the stuff i shared above, i explain what is happening and how to fix it

I saw what you said my friend, but I am not sure what you mean by a wild card? I see exactly what you are saying when I have my Say macro up ...it says (so and so, says, "Hail, T**** ") with a space after the toons name. I am just not sure what you mean by a wildcard to fix it. Sorry if I am bothering you ...just never had this issue to deal with before.

 

[Sic]

I saw what you said my friend, but I am not sure what you mean by a wild card? I see exactly what you are saying when I have my Say macro up ...it says (so and so, says, "Hail, T**** ") with a space after the toons name. I am just not sure what you mean by a wildcard to fix it. Sorry if I am bothering you ...just never had this issue to deal with before.

you haven't had this issue because it is an eq bug
#*# is wildcard

> MQ Event Documentation <

 

[Medicman]

you haven't had this issue because it is an eq bug
#*# is wildcard

> MQ Event Documentation <

So would I put that at the end of the events below: I really do appreciate your help more than you know.

#Event Hail "#1# says, 'Hail, |${Me.Name}|'"
#Event Hail "#1# says, in #2#, 'Hail, |${Me.Name}|'"

 

[Sic]

So would I put that at the end of the events below: I really do appreciate your help more than you know.

#Event Hail "#1# says, 'Hail, |${Me.Name}|'"
#Event Hail "#1# says, in #2#, 'Hail, |${Me.Name}|'"

the events need to end in a wildcard

did you click the linkie i shared, it is important that you understand what is happening, what a wildcard is, where to put the wildcard, and why the wildcard fixes it. If you did click it, and did read it, and something was unclear about it - it is important that you say that. "so i see how a wild card means it can match anything, i'm not sure how to apply it for this particular issue, and there wasn't an example that i think fits" "gotcha, in this case we want it at the end of the event since there currently is an extra space, that will likely get patch/fixed to go away - we don't want to hard code it to always look for the space, because then we would have to adjust the macro again later if/when they fix it --- making it use the wildcard at the end means it will match with or without the space"

me just typing it out for you is a bunch of typing for me, and 0 learning for you

#Event Hail "#1# says, 'Hail, |${Me.Name}|'" <--------- this does not end in a wild card, and is not going to match if there is a space, or anything else between "bob" and "'"
#Event Hail "#1# says, 'Hail, |${Me.Name}|#*#'" <--------- this ends in a wild card and would match if it had a space (or if dbg removed the bug) this would work if dbg added another space, an interrobang, or fixed their bug and removed the space
#Event Hail "#1# says, 'Hail, |${Me.Name}| '" <--------- this matches a space, it would no longer work if dbg removed the bug


you would need to do something like this for all of your event handling

 

[Medicman]

the events need to end in a wildcard

did you click the linkie i shared, it is important that you understand what is happening, what a wildcard is, where to put the wildcard, and why the wildcard fixes it. If you did click it, and did read it, and something was unclear about it - it is important that you say that. "so i see how a wild card means it can match anything, i'm not sure how to apply it for this particular issue, and there wasn't an example that i think fits" "gotcha, in this case we want it at the end of the event since there currently is an extra space, that will likely get patch/fixed to go away - we don't want to hard code it to always look for the space, because then we would have to adjust the macro again later if/when they fix it --- making it use the wildcard at the end means it will match with or without the space"

me just typing it out for you is a bunch of typing for me, and 0 learning for you

#Event Hail "#1# says, 'Hail, |${Me.Name}|'" <--------- this does not end in a wild card, and is not going to match if there is a space, or anything else between "bob" and "'"
#Event Hail "#1# says, 'Hail, |${Me.Name}|#*#'" <--------- this ends in a wild card and would match if it had a space (or if dbg removed the bug) this would work if dbg added another space, an interrobang, or fixed their bug and removed the space
#Event Hail "#1# says, 'Hail, |${Me.Name}| '" <--------- this matches a space, it would no longer work if dbg removed the bug


you would need to do something like this for all of your event handling

Thanks for your time Sic!!