Looking for addon/macro help.

[Anazul]

So I've been trying to key my pets' abilities to my actions bars so that I can get a visual representation on the layout of what key I need to hit and monitor the cooldown of the ability. However there is simply not enough space in a macro to allow for this and of course Blizz won't let me just drag pet abilities to my action bar. I'll put an example of one of the macros I use for some of the special abilities.

For instance:
#showtooltip [pet:chimaera] Froststorm Breath; [pet:worm] Burrow Attack; [pet:core hound]Ancient Hysteria; [pet:Spirit Beast] Spirit Mend; [pet:turtle] Shell Shield
/target [button:2]player
/click PetActionButton7 LeftButton
/targetlasttarget [button:2]

What this macro does is activate whatever the 7th ability on the pet bar is, and if I right click the button it assigns me as the target of the ability without dropping me current target, in this case it is Froststorm Breath, Burrow Attack, Ancient Hysteria, Spirit Mend and Shell shield, depending on my active pet. However it is also other abilities as well when I use different families but there is simply no room for me to expand the macro to display the icon or tooltip for those families.

Does anyone know of a better way to code this or of a macro to help?

On a side not I'm also trying to find an addon that will make my pet's active stance or movement method highlight when it is part of a macro, so that when I make a macro for defensive or aggressive on my action bar I can tell which one is active if I were to hide my pet bar for example.

[Wassa]

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#showtooltip 
/cast [pet:chimaera]Froststorm Breath; [pet:worm]Burrow Attack; [pet:core hound]Ancient Hysteria; [pet:turtle]Shell Shield; [@player,button:2,pet:Spirit Beast][@target,help,pet:Spirit Beast]Spirit Mend

Quick clean up that I have not tested at all in game (I can't anyways because I don't use all of those pets).

If you are doing a showtooltip with all those moves, might as will just move those to a cast line instead of clicking the pet 7 button to save room. You could even get rid of the [pet] tags but that probably will mess up what icon shows on the macro.

Also, instead of /target player /targetlasttarget a simpler way is [@player]Move here.

[Anazul]

While that is abit cleaner, it means i can only use it with those pet types. My original one still works with things like wasp sting, or bird of prey disarm, etc. It just does not display a tooltip for them, also that code you suggested does not show the tooltip for spirit mend unless a friendly is selected unfortunately, so it would take abit more code to get that one to show as well.

[Wassa]

Just remove help from [@target,help,pet:Spirit Beast] so it will always show. You could remove @target as well if that doesn't work.

I originally had the help in there to have the spirit beast cast Spirit Mend on friendly target only (otherwise you would get an error on a harmful target) if you weren't using button:2 to cast on yourself.

[Anazul]

Well yes that works, but still, it limits the macro to less abilities. I was just hoping someone would know a way for it to smart detect the ability in that slot for tooltips, or an addon that might do so.

[Anazul]

Still looking for some suggestions on this.