Switching action bar when doing a key press?
Back in the days I had a macro on which my action bar 2 popped up while holding down shift. When I released shift the action 1 came back up. I really enjoyed playing it in arena like that.
Can anyone help me creating this macro? I have already searched but the closest I can get is a permanent change on button press.
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I use the Dominos addon to assign different bars when modifier keys are pressed. Shift brings up bar 2, and Alt brings up bar 3.
I have Q, A, Z, X, and 1-4 bound to bar 1. When shift is held, bar 2 is substituted in and the keys now work with bar 2 (as you'd expect).
When shift is released, bar 1 comes back.
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How do I switch action bars?
Once placed, they can be activated with a quick hotkey or mouse click. To the right of the command shortcuts are gold up (\u2191) and down (\u2193) arrows to switch to alternate Action Bars (see below).How do I Keybind extra action bars?
Scroll down about half way on the keybinding page and you find the MultiActionBar Bindings. There it has the Bottom Left, Bottom Right, Right Action Button, and Right Action Button 2.What is the special action bar in wow?
The extra bars are special action bars used in instances for special boss fights or in some cases quest fights. Just place it where its easy for you to use when it does come up without being in the way of other buttons that may be around at the time.MAME: Sending the first keypress; pressing/releasing Space Bar is turning switch on/off in MAME :)
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I am pretty sure that the closest you can get to this without an add on (of which there are probably several) is to show both action bars and set up the bindings on the new bar to be the same buttons on the original plus some modifier. For completeness you show extra action bars under Interface -> Action Bars* in the menu.
*Can someone please confirm the name of the sub menu, I do not have access to the game currently, if not I will do so myself later.
For example I have one bar key-bound like:
| Q | E | R | T | F | G | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
and the second bar is identical but using shift:
| S+Q | S+E | S+R | S+T | S+F | S+G | S+1 | S+2 | S+3 | S+4 | S+5 |
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