Feature request: Macros have some variables defined by default can these be reflected in predefined vairables?

[tposney]

When a macro is called, speaker, character, actor, and token are defined. Could those be reflected as pre-defined variables within blockly?

[tposney]

Not really a feature request but curiosity. Are you planning to add code for the common dnd5e actor/item actions, i.e. actor.rollAbilitySave etc, Item.use, Item.rollAttack and so on?

[MiahNelah]

Hi @tposney ! I’m not used to item macro and contextual variables as I rarely have tu use them, but as long it’s defined in JS, I’m confident on being able to get them as blocks.

About how to handle item macro and other use cases like this, Blockly already provides special “event” block: you can custom as you wish, and can provide contextual variables. I didn’t dig it yet, as I was more focus on basic for now, but I think it could be neat. This way, you may have an “on item use” block providing use cases variable, block in which you can add your logic.

Globally, system-specific stuffs will be in a separate modules to ease compatibility on the run.

[MiahNelah]

Item macro compatibility is much more complicated than expected. First thing first, I need to plug blockly editor to Item Macro. However, Item Macro do not use classic macro, it's just some embedded macro data inside flags. In the same way, macro editor is not really the original MacroConfig sheet but a modified one to handle this use case. Finally, as item macro simulate no id, it's not possible to switch to document sheet. Actually, errors does not even happen on LibBlockly side right now, but at Foundry's core (id is expected).

I'm still thinking about how to handle this compatibility. My current guess is that I may need to update Item Macro to improve Macro Proxy and allow document sheet change. Afterward, I have to experiment to do, but it should be overall easier.