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Author Topic: How do I speed up a macro?  (Read 677 times)

smjjames

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How do I speed up a macro?
« on: July 18, 2010, 03:46:33 pm »

I want to make a macro for a spiral ramp design, but when I used one to speed up the trimming of some designation blocks that I had, it ended up being slower than I was doing it and I would like to have it be much faster.

Or would people suggest Quickfort as being a better idea than just doing it ingame?
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Re: How do I speed up a macro?
« Reply #1 on: July 18, 2010, 04:10:59 pm »

I use a 3rd party program called AutoHotkey.

I've been able to use it for all sorts of things, however, you have to code in what it is you want it to do.
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Re: How do I speed up a macro?
« Reply #2 on: July 18, 2010, 04:19:43 pm »

Assuming you're using the new DF2010 aka 0.31.* releases, and the SDL version of that.

In data\init\init.txt there is a setting called MACRO_MS.  Change it from 150 to 1, see what that does.
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Re: How do I speed up a macro?
« Reply #3 on: July 18, 2010, 04:30:00 pm »

Mind you I don't just use it for DF and I've gotten really used to using it. :P The DF macro dealio is probably a lot better for DF.
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Re: How do I speed up a macro?
« Reply #4 on: July 18, 2010, 04:59:34 pm »

Assuming you're using the new DF2010 aka 0.31.* releases, and the SDL version of that.

In data\init\init.txt there is a setting called MACRO_MS.  Change it from 150 to 1, see what that does.

Oh cool, thanks.
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