Repeating Actions

[emptyrivers]

Part of the Use-Case Series.

Some users would like to create actions that repeat a specific number of times. For example, a countdown-style chat message spam. We have a snippet in discord which achieves this specific use case.

Should we incorporate this use case into WeakAuras, or is a snippet sufficient for the number of times that users want to do this?

[emptyrivers]

@Stanzilla do you have any thoughts?

[Stanzilla]

I think this will have a place in a more general overhaul of actions, if every action can be repeated as for example currently sounds can, then I think this makes sense

[InfusOnWoW]

I think repeating chat messages with a countdown is one of the more often requested things. And there's some inconsistency that sounds can be repeated but not chat messages. That's a bit strange.

There are actually two problems there:

• "BOMB in %p" would currently output %p in the progress precision format. There's the obvious workaround with "BOMB in %C"
• And how to actually add a repeat to the options and to which.

I think it does make sense to add it to the chat/custom script options in conditions.

For the general actions tab, I wouldn't mind if we don't add it there.