Had the G15 for nearly a year and never used a macro - what am I missing?

dlthorpe · 14 Mar 2010 at 13:15

Hi All,

As topic suggests. I've had a G15 for about a year but never used the macros for it. Its not something ive looked into really. Just wondered what I am missing?

Does anyone have any suggestions for me whether it be Gaming or just in Windows?

Thanks all,
D.

Strawberry · 14 Mar 2010 at 13:45

Macros are really handy if you have to do a lot of routine tasks like removing the first two characters in the filenames of certain files, just scroll through them and hit the macro for each one.

I wished I would have had one when I used to do game server/client development about a year ago, I often found myself adding or removing prefixes to up to 200 files at a time in various folders.

For gaming it's nice if you have to string combos in certain orders.

Edit: Oh right, I forgot to mention: Right now I use at least 3 macros during normal Windows use, one is running calculator, the second is switching between input languages (german and japanese) which is normally alt+shift, and the third is ctrl+shift+escape (opens task managar).

Orangey · 14 Mar 2010 at 14:24

There are file renamer utils out there, with good regexp support. I've had to dance with some very large folders in the past, Ant Renamer was what I used I think.

Oh, topic... uhh I had a macro keyboard years ago, don't miss it.

angela · 14 Mar 2010 at 14:41

I use in ME2 macros, for orders/ special abilities...

also during l4d or online games- assigned macros for phrases- so do not need type text in chat every time, just recorded about 10 sentences on each macro )

for example G1- omg, can't u see hunter's on me, save me, noobs

Redgie · 14 Mar 2010 at 14:43

I run an online gaming community tha is regularly subject to attack, I notices several attempts at brute forcing the password to my server, so I changed it to one that about 60 characters long, and stuck it on a macro that enteres my username, password and hits enter.

That's windows, in games I have a CSS macro that selects all my weapons for me, and a load of GTA:SA macros that open and close gates on my server, as well as doing mondane and common admin commands.

Also, as mentioned above, they are very useful for renaming large batches of files

V4nger · 14 Mar 2010 at 15:20

I like to use macros in cryis where i set a macro for each suit power. quickly swapping suit powers without having to press the middle mouse button is really useful.

413x · 14 Mar 2010 at 21:01

when i get a macro keyboard im hoping to use it in crysis for
decloak -> fire -> cloak

and there are so many uses in windows too

dlthorpe · 15 Mar 2010 at 18:54

V4nger said:
I like to use macros in cryis where i set a macro for each suit power. quickly swapping suit powers without having to press the middle mouse button is really useful.

Nice, any chance i can get an example?

dlthorpe · 15 Mar 2010 at 18:55

Thanks to everyone for their examples too. Any chance of an example for say a common chat thing too?

V4nger · 15 Mar 2010 at 19:02

each of the powers in crysis is usually shortcutted by double tapping certain keys. but theyre all over the place. i think speed is double tap shift. so it is really easy to have that quick double tap on a macro key. then just have all of the powers in a line ready to be used

Strawberry · 15 Mar 2010 at 20:05

dlthorpe said:
Thanks to everyone for their examples too. Any chance of an example for say a common chat thing too?

In the Logitech G-Series Key Profiler you can rightclick a key and choose "Assign text block".

Note: I'm a moderately experienced Lua programmer myself so it would be interesting to see what I can do using the built in Script API.

I could write a script that lets you perform more combos like Ctrl + G1, Shift + G1 and assign different actions to them, for example.