Turning off the Chat an Click-Macros ?

[Filon]

Hi,

i got two questions:

1. how can i turn off my chat (well, the chat on my alts) ? i want my ui to be as clean as possible.
2. can someone explain exactly how thouse click-macros, that i read about a lot, actually work?


thanks a lot
Filon

[Ualaa]

With a click macro, you have a master macro which you spam.

It calls several other castsequences.
Each castsequence is called at the same time.
But because of the GCD, they execute top down.
So anything, in any of the macros off of the GCD will fire off immediately.
But the first thing on the GCD then prevents anything else on the GCD from firing.

Because of this, we can prioritize our spells/abilities.
By putting the Immolate before the Conflagrate, or Flame Shock before the Lava Burst, etc.

We need to know our personal spam speed.
And the duration of our abilities (or their cooldown, until they are reusable).
Translate this delay into seconds, and multiply by our clicks per second.
So we insert commas, which serve as "no action on this press", equivalent to the desired delay.

When we spam our master macro.
It executes the first ability.
And that ability will execute again, when the desired time (determined by spam speed/commas) passes.
Each subsequent ability also fires off... initially as the GCD allows, and then according to our timing.

And because everything executes top down...
If two things expire at once, they fire off in the priority sequence as well.

Each sequence will have a final ability, with no cooldown or dot component.
This will fire off when everything else is on the comma stage.
So our click sequences auto adjust for haste changes.

Once made, we tweak them (add or remove commas) by visiting a target dummy.

And we end up with one-button spam for almost any class.
Which makes boxing any dps close to as optimal as one-boxing.
We miss out on specials when a proc occurs.
But can work these into the dps too, but as something in addition to /click.

[Ualaa]

You could modify your macro to include.

/script UIErrorsFrame:Hide()
<Insert Macro Here>
/script UIErrorsFrame:Clear()
/script UIErrorsFrame:Show()

This will suppress the messages of "that spell is not ready", which spam your screen.
Not sure if you could put that into the master click macro.
Or if you'd need to wrap it around each of the castsequences called by the master macro.

[Maxion]

I'm not sure if you can completely hide all chat windows, other than making it really small and maybe placing another part of your UI on top of it.
Though at least I guess you can leave all channels on it and make it not really show when not displaying any text.

I think that's the closest you'll get


Unless you decide to memorize all your keybindings and spells and play with UI toggled off, lol ;p

[Bettysue]

/script SetChatWindowAlpha(1,0);
/script SetChatWindowShown(1,0);
Would both hide the main chat window. Run the command and then do a /reloadUI. The fist line will make the window invisible, text may still appear, the second should hide the frame all together. If you want to hide the combat log replace the 1 with a 2.

I can't run WoW right now so I can't test these for functionality but they should work.