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Paragon Chat => General => Topic started by: Shenku on July 08, 2015, 10:36:55 PM

Title: Some useful macros for lazy emoting
Post by: Shenku on July 08, 2015, 10:36:55 PM
Title: Re: Some useful macros for the lazy emoting
Post by: Leandro on July 08, 2015, 10:44:44 PM
Open Notepad.

Paste the following in it:

Code: [Select]
Window Macros 0 0 200 100
Open 1
End

Go to File -> Save

Navigate to your COH install folder.

Go into (create if necessary) a folder called "data"

Create a folder called "customwindows" and go into it

Save the file as "custom.window" making sure you use quotes in the File -> Save dialog (otherwise, Notepad will append .txt and break it).

Now, launch Paragon Chat. You will see a window like this one:

(https://i.imgur.com/GFDAks7.png)

Drag and drop your macros into it, or use the "New command" button to create new macros.

The client will save your macros to the same file, and they will be there every time you log in, on all your characters.

For example, after moving the window a bit and adding the Wave macro, the file now reads:

Code: [Select]
Window Macros 0.0256 0.1822 200 100
Button Wave "em wave"
Open 1
End
Title: Re: Some useful macros for lazy emoting
Post by: Shenku on July 08, 2015, 10:54:34 PM
That might actually be infinitely more useful than mine... :P

Edit: Tried it, it makes reloading the above listed macros tons easier than alt-tabing and copy/pasting them all each time. Thanks for the tip, Leandro!
Title: Re: Some useful macros for lazy emoting
Post by: peachypeach on July 09, 2015, 12:12:59 AM
Thank you!!
Title: Re: Some useful macros for the lazy emoting
Post by: Eoraptor on July 09, 2015, 04:03:33 AM
Open Notepad.

Paste the following in it:

Code: [Select]
Window Macros 0 0 200 100
Open 1
End

Go to File -> Save

Navigate to your COH install folder.

Go into (create if necessary) a folder called "data"

Create a folder called "customwindows" and go into it

Save the file as "custom.window" making sure you use quotes in the File -> Save dialog (otherwise, Notepad will append .txt and break it).

Now, launch Paragon Chat. You will see a window like this one:

(https://i.imgur.com/GFDAks7.png)

Drag and drop your macros into it, or use the "New command" button to create new macros.

The client will save your macros to the same file, and they will be there every time you log in, on all your characters.

For example, after moving the window a bit and adding the Wave macro, the file now reads:

Code: [Select]
Window Macros 0.0256 0.1822 200 100
Button Wave "em wave"
Open 1
End
Damn that's slick... makes mapmove so much faster, just save one for each zone.
Title: Re: Some useful macros for the lazy emoting
Post by: Void Huntress on July 09, 2015, 04:14:38 AM
<magic>

That's really slick. Thanks for this.
Title: Re: Some useful macros for the lazy emoting
Post by: Hirokage on July 14, 2015, 02:19:32 PM
Open Notepad.

Paste the following in it:

Code: [Select]
Window Macros 0 0 200 100
Open 1
End

Go to File -> Save

Navigate to your COH install folder.

Go into (create if necessary) a folder called "data"

Create a folder called "customwindows" and go into it

Save the file as "custom.window" making sure you use quotes in the File -> Save dialog (otherwise, Notepad will append .txt and break it).

Now, launch Paragon Chat. You will see a window like this one:

(https://i.imgur.com/GFDAks7.png)

Drag and drop your macros into it, or use the "New command" button to create new macros.

The client will save your macros to the same file, and they will be there every time you log in, on all your characters.

For example, after moving the window a bit and adding the Wave macro, the file now reads:

Code: [Select]
Window Macros 0.0256 0.1822 200 100
Button Wave "em wave"
Open 1
End

This works nicely! But I have one question left, how do I close the window? I've opened about 5....
Title: Re: Some useful macros for lazy emoting
Post by: Leandro on July 14, 2015, 03:08:04 PM
Click on their title. They won't close, but they'll become a little square you can click on to expand it again.

If you want to remove a window, you have to edit the custom.window file to delete it. I don't think there's a command for it.
Title: Re: Some useful macros for lazy emoting
Post by: gammagirl on July 14, 2015, 05:00:13 PM
I have no idea what I'm doing wrong. I've followed the instructions to a T.  Each time I relog, my custom window is gone and I have to create it all over again.  It's almost as if the came is not reading the custom.window file in the directory.
Title: Re: Some useful macros for lazy emoting
Post by: Shenku on July 14, 2015, 09:21:34 PM
I have no idea what I'm doing wrong. I've followed the instructions to a T.  Each time I relog, my custom window is gone and I have to create it all over again.  It's almost as if the came is not reading the custom.window file in the directory.

Are you sure it's in the right folder? Or do you mean the file itself is being deleted...?
Title: Re: Some useful macros for lazy emoting
Post by: gammagirl on July 14, 2015, 11:33:14 PM
My custom.window file is in the Paragonchat/Data/customwindows folder. It has the txt that Leandro specified.  When I go into game, my custom window called "macros" does not appear. I have to create it manually.  So I do that, put all my macros in it and everything is fine.

Log out

Log in

No custom window. Macros gone. Good joke. Everybody laugh. Roll on snare drum. Curtains.
Title: Re: Some useful macros for lazy emoting
Post by: gammagirl on July 15, 2015, 03:38:20 AM
NVM, lol, I figured out what I was doing wrong, it's all good now
Title: Re: Some useful macros for lazy emoting
Post by: Noyjitat on July 18, 2015, 11:07:11 PM
I assume this would also work in Icon?

Thank you for this!
Title: Re: Some useful macros for lazy emoting
Post by: Pengy on July 18, 2015, 11:41:54 PM
Macro windows work in Icon. Specific macros might have to be changed, like ones using emote would have to be rewritten to use mov.
Title: Re: Some useful macros for lazy emoting
Post by: Detra on July 22, 2015, 05:59:22 PM
THANK YOU!!! ;D  ;D  ;D
This is awesome!

Outta the nine trays, 2&1/2 were powers and the others were macro (stickers and silly stuff for Cape show)
This will make things a lot easier!!!

Title: Re: Some useful macros for the lazy emoting
Post by: Tipsy on September 10, 2015, 03:41:04 AM

(https://i.imgur.com/GFDAks7.png)

Drag and drop your macros into it, or use the "New command" button to create new macros.

The client will save your macros to the same file, and they will be there every time you log in, on all your characters.

Hi there.  So, I've been using this custom window feature in Paragon Chat ever since this was posted here.  It's been nifty. 

One question: when I first load up Paragon Chat, the window is always in the top-left position.  If I relocate it, and then type /wdwsave, and then completely reset my system (log out of both client and launcher), the location of this custom window resets.  Is there any way I can get this custom window's position on my screen to 'stick'? 

If anyone knows, let me know. 

-Tipsy