ACE & Advanced Macros

[Flippant]

Been trying to get a macro working, which according to others does work, but I just get LUA errors.

Does anyone use /in as part of their macro? Here's an example:

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/cast Divine Sacrifice
/in 0.5 /script CancelUnitBuff(“player”,”Divine Sacrifice”)
The macro casts a spell, then cancels it using /in [time].

[maky]

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/sw 5
/script Stopwatch_Play();
/cast Kick
/p ** KICKED * 10 **
/in 1 /p ** 9 **
/in 2 /p ** 8 **
/in 3 /p ** 7 **
/in 4 /p ** 6 *
(part of a macro)

Maybe try /cancelaura("Divine Sacrifice") (not the right way, see below) ? or that won`t work?

edit: The correct syntax seems to be:

/cancelaura Divine Sacrifice

[Flippant]

My normal macro is as follows:

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#showtooltip
/cancelaura divine sacrifice
/cast divine sacrifice
So that's two button hits, the /in script macro was an attempt to only hit button once.

[Gallico]

#showtooltip Shattering Throw
/cast Shattering Throw
/s **Shattering %t**
/in 11 /s **Shatter Over**

I use that and never had any problems, like Maky said I think its not a problem with a /in but with syntax elsewhere

[maky]

Tried logging a level 1 with 0 addons enabled, and any "/in" macro wouldn`t have any effect; now I`m confused...

[Monascha]

i think /in only works with whole seconds, not .5

i have no issues with macro's like:

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/cast Barkskin
/ra >>Barkskin activated 12s<<
/in 12 /ra >>Barkskin down<<

[Flippant]

I've used /in on it's own before and works. It's a function of the stopwatch.

But seems running a script line triggered by /in might not be. Does any have an example of a script type line triggered by /in?

[Monascha]

did some google research and in several topics on wow forums there is mentioned that /in only works with announce type macro's. Spell casting can't be automated...and i guess canceling an aura counts as spell casting.

[Ark]

/in does work with half-seconds, but I've only ever seen /in macros work with chat messages not with other commands like /cancelaura. Maybe using /in to delay a /cancelaura or similar command goes against Blizzards macros policy thing?

e: EFB

[maky]

Yup, you guys are correct.

[01:50:46] Error, /in cannot call secure command: /cancelaura
[01:50:46] Error, /in cannot call secure command: /assist

For a list of secure commands, [wowwiki link].

[Flippant]

Thanks,
Macros i saw were dated sept last year, so guess Blizz secured the cancel bit after that. It smells of automation so can understand why Blizz thought to secure it.