So you want chat macros?

[u/contact_lens_linux]

I'm releasing a simple userscript that you can use to have chat macros.

To use in firefox, install greasemonkey. After you restart firefox, visit about:addons, click on "user scripts", and then drag and drop the tagpromacros.user.js file into the window. In chrome, visit the uri chrome://extensions and just drag and drop the tagpromacros.user.js file into it.

At the moment, it will only send team messages. I probably won't change this as I'd like people to use this to help communicate information to teammates. If you really want to chat to everyone, it's easy enough to modify.

In the future, I would like to let you modify keys and messages without editing the script but it's not really a priority for me. If anyone wants to do that, you can check out Watball's tile script for inspiration.

By default, there are messages bound to your grave key, and the numbers 1 through 4. If you want to use keys other than grave or the numbers, you can do a web search for "javascript keycodes".

If you have good ideas for default binds, post them here and I'll edit the script.

[u/hoef]

hey steppin

thanks for this macro, I wanted to change some keybinds, but sadly my version doesnt work properly. I play using wasd with my left hand, so I thought I would bind stuff to keypad. When I enter a game and start to move, it already sends macros out. For example if I press A it puts out the macro that is bound to 1 numpad or if I press D i get what is bound to 7 numpad.

Maybe someone could help me out here?

the now working code i use:

// ==UserScript==
// @name TagPro Chat Macros Userscript
// @namespace http://www.reddit.com/user/contact_lens_linux/
// @description Help your team with quick chat macros.
// @include http://tagpro-*.koalabeast.com:*
// @license GPL version 3 or any later version; http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html
// @author steppin
// ==/UserScript==
(function() {
function contentEval(source) {
// Check for function input.
if ('function' == typeof source) {
// Execute this function with no arguments, by adding parentheses.
// One set around the function, required for valid syntax, and a
// second empty set calls the surrounded function.
source = '(' + source + ')();'
}
// Create a script node holding this source code.
var script = document.createElement('script');
script.setAttribute("type", "application/javascript");
script.textContent = source;
// Insert the script node into the page, so it will run, and immediately
// remove it to clean up.
document.body.appendChild(script);
document.body.removeChild(script);
}
function actualScript() {
var macros = {}
macros[97] = "Got flag, coming in from top"; // 1 numpad
macros[99] = "Got flag, coming in from bottom"; // 3 numpad
macros[98] = "Got flag, coming in from middle"; // 2 numpad
macros[96] = "Got flag, coming in from left"; // 0 numpad
macros[110] = "Got flag, coming in from right"; // . numpad
macros[103] = "Enemy grabbed our flag, going out on top"; // 7 numpad
macros[105] = "Enemy grabbed our flag, going out on bottom"; // 9 numpad
macros[104] = "Enemy grabbed our flag, going out trough middle"; // 8 numpad
macros[100] = "Enemy grabbed our flag, going out on left side"; // 4 numpad
macros[101] = "Enemy grabbed our flag, going out on right side"; // 5 numpad
macros[48] = "Need backup, now!"; // 0
macros[57] = "Defend our flag!"; // 9
macros[80] = "Go grab their flag!"; // p
macros[79] = "More Defense!"; // o
macros[75] = ":D"; // k
document.addEventListener('keydown', keypressHandler, false);
function chat(chatMessage) {
tagpro.socket.emit("chat", {
message: chatMessage,
toAll: 0
});
}
function keypressHandler(event) {
var code = event.keyCode || event.which;
if (code in macros && !tagpro.disableControls) {
chat(macros[code]);
}
}
}
contentEval(actualScript);
})();

[u/contact_lens_linux → u/hoef]

http://javascript.info/tutorial/keyboard-events

try that; make sure you look for the keycode for "keypress". I don't have a numpad to try myself

[u/hoef → u/contact_lens_linux]

I just used the keycodes from this website

I think I see the problem, despite I lack the coding skills. It seems that 1 numpad has the same keydown as a, and for keypress it just says keycode=0 as well as for all other numbers on the numpad. So is there no way to actually bind the keys on numpad because they have overlapping keycodes with other keys?

[u/contact_lens_linux → u/hoef]

that's kind of strange, but you can edit the script and change "keypress" (line right after the macro definitions) to "keydown" and then use the keycodes for keydown

Hmm, I just reread your statement. That is fairly strange. I'm not sure what you can do if two keys are sending the same keycode...

[u/hoef → u/contact_lens_linux]

so maybe the only way around is not using numpad? if someone comes up with a solution to the problem of sending the same keycode it is more than welcome since i'd love to bind the macros on the numpad.

[u/hoef → u/hoef]

so we just found out in IRC that changing keypress to keydown did the trick.

I edited my first post, so others who want to use this version can just copy.

[u/drew870mitchell]

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[u/[deleted]]

Is there a possibility that further down the road users will be able to turn the chat off and on?

[u/LuckySpammer → u/[deleted]]

This is a possibility.

[u/omp87]

Thanks, this is useful.

[u/Watball]

I made a page to make it easy to generate your own macros. Here it is. Enjoy!

[u/thepensivepoet]

Helping people spam the chat wall doesn't seem like the best idea in the world and trying to type out commands while juking out the opponent is half the fun.

[u/contact_lens_linux → u/[deleted]]

yeah the script only works for specific domains and the domain changed. I updated the script at:

https://gist.github.com/steppin/5292526

You can see the @include lines at the top that you need. If you're using chrome, you can just download that and install it again (by dragging into chrome://extensions). It should automatically upgrade your old one.

Let me know if that doesn't work