Update: The macros contained in this thread and more now have a wiki page. Just head to Saving Time Using Macros with Auctioneer and take a look!

I've recently discoverd the huge time saving benefits of using the /click command in macros with Auctioneer. Basically, this command does a button click for any frame you ask it to, meaning buttons, drop down menus, sort fields, etc. Let me give an example:

Formerly after Auctioneer finished a scan, I would switch to the Search Auctions window by clicking that tab, pull down my saved search from the dropdown menu and select it, click the Search button, then sort my buyouts by the Pct column from highest to lowest. Not a long sequence, but it did take some time and is very repetitive. Turns out that entire sequence can be automated using WoW's built-in macro language, and it works even if the search takes some time to complete, the WoW client queues the rest of the sequence. Here's how that macro looks:

/click AuctionFrameTabSearch
/click AuctionFrameSearchSavedSearchDropDownButton
/click DropDownList1Button2
/click AuctionFrameSearchBuyoutSearchButton
/click AuctionFrameSearchListColumn5Sort

How do I find out the names of the frames, you ask? I use MoveAnything, it will show the frame name for anything your cursor is over, but other mods to do this probably exist.

Let's say you've done a scan and are searching for items to bid on from the Search Auctions tab. This macro automates the bid process, so you no longer have to confirm your bids, you simply click the item line in the window and press your macro button. This works even better if you keybind it too, you simply click the auction item and hit a key to bid:

/click AuctionFrameSearchBidButton
/click StaticPopup1Button1

As you can imagine, the possibilities here are vast. I also use use this technique to open all of my mail on the first page of my mailbox, in combination with my mail mod (I use CTMailMod). CTMailMod has a feature to check the boxes of the mail you wish to open, then press an Open button to retrieve only those items. However, I often have so much mail that I don't wish to open it all, just the items on the first page. Using a macro sequence makes it possible.

Posted By: WoesI love this. Going to have to spend some time working on it. Do you mind posting your first page mail macro? I have wanted to be able to do that..

Sure thing. For CTMailMod, the macro is:

/click CT_MailBoxItem1CB
/click CT_MailBoxItem2CB
/click CT_MailBoxItem3CB
/click CT_MailBoxItem4CB
/click CT_MailBoxItem5CB
/click CT_MailBoxItem6CB
/click CT_MailBoxItem7CB
/click CT_MMInboxOpenSelected

That puts a checkmark in every box on the first page, then opens them.

by all means add it to the wiki. no response from me, because i wouldn't use them. i don't have macro space, i don't have buttonbar space, and i don't generally feel all that put out by the clicking. of course, i am doing substantially less auctioneer flipping right now - i'm playing less and my server economy seems pretty flat.

Deckard, please add it to the wiki. Could be fun diving again into macros.

I rummaged a bit with macros in the past. Till they became that big that I had to put them into an addon (but basically they were still the same macros). But it is broken now <snif>:
The monster ;-)> I created was a bunch of functions for healing, shadow-word pain and other priest spells around a single function that determined automatically which level of the spell it could use the best for healing your party / killing your opponent (the less needed, the lower the spell level used, thus the less mana was consumed).
But guess what Blizzard decided with 2.0 that also fell under the same restrictions as auto-buying.... Indeed auto-selection of a spell-level to use. To bad, now I only use the maximum spell levels since I don't have enough space to put in a button for each spell-level of each spell.

Out-of-combat auto-buffing is still possible, BTW. Create secure template and change it dynamically in pre-click handler. Only in-combat decisions are blocked (or, actually, deffered to happen after combat ends).

Hi

Brilliant macros :) I also do a lot of auctioning and I especially love the first one you posted, only I would like to modify it to show bid / buyout per item in a stack. I suppose that's very possible, but how?

I ran into something meow ran into. I wanted to add the click macro to retrieve all mail, for BM2I users, so I appended a "non-Auctioneer" section. Yay/nay? Take discussions of this sort to the discussion page of the wiki?

Posted By: bunnyfufuI ran into something meow ran into. I wanted to add the click macro to retrieve all mail, for BM2I users, so I appended a "non-Auctioneer" section. Yay/nay?

Absolutely. I had intended all along to add an Auctioneer related section but hadn't gotten around to it. Your addition prompted me to add my own macro for CT_MailMod mail retrieval.

I'm fine with using either the forums or the wiki for discussion, whatever works.

Posted By: DeckardHow do I find out the names of the frames, you ask? I useMoveAnything

I have this little macro for the same purpose; place your mouse over the button/frame of interest, and then use:
/script DEFAULT_CHAT_FRAME:AddMessage(GetMouseFocus():GetName())

This is a great thread, I've been dying for the "open one page of mail" shortcut for a long time, and the potential of "/click" is impressive. Also check out Cogwheel's macro thread on the Blizzard UI forums; he has a bit about macro chaining and something on how to use macros longer than 255 characters by binding them directly to keys.
http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=2366703212&sid=1

Sure thing Tig, that's what a wiki is for! I'll probably clean it up a bit to remove all the vertical spacing and put it in macro code format (like the sections above it), but I'll leave your writing intact.

Sure thing. For CTMailMod, the macro is:

/click CT_MailBoxItem1CB
/click CT_MailBoxItem2CB
/click CT_MailBoxItem3CB
/click CT_MailBoxItem4CB
/click CT_MailBoxItem5CB
/click CT_MailBoxItem6CB
/click CT_MailBoxItem7CB
/click CT_MMInboxOpenSelected

That puts a checkmark in every box on the first page, then opens them.

I adore this macro but it broke in 2.3 and I'm not sure why. Digging through the code for CT_MMInbox.xml shows the same checkbox variable names (CT_MailBoxItem4CB, etc.) but the macro no longer checks anything off:( Anyone have any ideas on this?

CT Mod

CTMod Updated for 2.3

Posted 1 day, 8 hours ago by Cide

CTMod has been updated to the latest World of Warcraft patch, 2.3. You can find the updated mods in our downloads section.

New for today is a vastly improved version of CT_MailMod. It's a complete recode, and brings CT_MailMod up to version 3.0. New features include a much faster Mass Opening as well as a detailed Mail Log of all the mail you've opened using Mass Opening. While there is no support for Mass Mailing at the moment, we expect to patch this in within a week or so. You can access the mail log using either /maillog or clicking the Mail Log button in your inbox.

that's about all I could find on it. .. their forums didn't seem to be up.

Posted By: Deckard[strong]/run DEFAULT_CHAT_FRAME:AddMessage(GetMouseFocus():GetName())[/strong]

Thanks Deckard. I actually used that to test the macro out when it first died, and when I couldn't get a valid frame name I started digging through the code. That's how I found the code that apparently uses the same names as before, the macro just does not work. I thought it might have to do with frame layers and the position of the checkboxes in the mail frame, but changing layer levels had no effect.

I'm still suspicous of CT_MailMod after it kept on deleting my guild's news mail items whenever it attempted to retrieved an item next to it.

Deckard, come into the light of Ace. Drink the Kool-Aid of BulkMail.

Posted By: bunnyfufuDeckard, come into the light of Ace. Drink the Kool-Aid of BulkMail.

Hehe. I actually do use a lot of Ace mods and I'm aware of BulkMail2 from the mentions here and elsewhere. One thing I've always liked about CT_MailMod was it enhanced the default Blizzard UI without changing it completely. BulkMail2 is a total departure from Blizzard's UI for mail, and I'm not sure how well I like the look. It certainly gives a great deal of info at once, it's just a bit overwhelming.

Thanks Rock, I'll check it out. I'd always wondered how Postal was as a mail mod, but I had no idea what it looked like since it doesn't have a wiki page at the Ace site and I couldn't find it at any of the main mod sites.

I don't know if it is related, but beancounter wasn't updating when I was using Postal. I haven't done extensive testing to isolate the cause, so if others are using Postal with success I guess it's just me.

Hi, Deckard.
I love your wiki for keybindings. Could you update it for the buttons on the "SearchUI" module? The ones I'd be most interested in are the buttons for:

Bid
Buyout
Not Now
Ignore

I'm not sure what the 'Buy First', 'Clear', and 'Remove' buttons do, so I've left them alone.

Thanks again!
Kat

Since this thread was resurrected, I wanted to just make a point in saying that Postal is working just fine with Auctioneer Advanced and Beancounter now.

Thank you for all the help you've given us over the years, Deckard. I, for one, wish you great success in the future. We'll miss you.

Kat