Macro to save and/or load filter window settings
It doesn't happen often but it does happen to me often enough that it can be annoying....sometimes my filter settings reset to default. EZServer is a bot heavy server with most active players playing 12+ characters at a time and have 2 directories they play from...one for their control toon and another skinny directory for their alts. On the skinny directory, you generally want almost everything filtered out and even on the main directory there are things that are effectively useless spam so you end up setting a lot of the options to hide. That being said, this macro should work on any server, live or EMU.
What this macro offers is a way to quickly save all of your filter settings into an INI file that you can load on any of your other characters. Once you save a filter set, you can run this macro and tell it to apply the settings from a saved profile to any character. You could save a filter set that shows all the different message types for when you are logging stuff to parse then swap to a filter set with non essential stuff filtered out.
When this macro starts, it checks the macro directory for it's associated INI file...if it doesn't exist yet, it parses your current settings and saves a profile as the character's name. You can update profiles whenever you want, just save the filter set as the same name of the profile you are updating. Make as many profiles as you want, name them anything you want and load them whenever you want. There's some error logic, you won't be able to save or load a filter set with a blank name, but if there are other issues post here and they'll be addressed.
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Last edited by dum_as_f on Thu Apr 18, 2019 11:37 am; edited 1 time in total
Wed Apr 17, 2019 7:07 pm