[Macro] Pulling out a name

Basically I am building a simple macro which mimics languages. I'm just not sure how to 'pull out' the name of the person or their Character who activated the macro. So if the controller of "Jim Bob the Destoyer" typed "#Elven I'll smash them all!" then I am looking to be able to drop "Jim Bob the Destroyer" in through something like @{character|character_name}.  I'm just not sure if that will get anything of use.

Try @{selected|character_name} so the character name from the sheet attached to that token will be used. 

It's meant to be dropped in Chat, so there may not be a Selected Token.

If the macro is attached to the character sheet you can use @{character_name} otherwise you would need to have some way of designating which character it is pointing too, like a charactger name or have a token selected or targeted. 

^ To give an example, if you choose to supply that macro to every Character as an Ability, you can opt to remove the keyword of Attribute calls, i.e. @{character_name}

I think I've found a suitable way around it, as much as I can anyway, but it means that any character mean to use it will need a Character Sheet and you can't load it in through other means it would seem. Actually, Silvyre... Can an API Button remember the 'name' of its source? As in, if a Token on the map has an API Button code loaded into it, can the API Button remember the name of the Token that spawned it?

If by 'loaded into it' you mean saved as a value of a Token Bar, then yes: remove all HTML entities from all Attribute calls that are intended to correspond to the 'source' Token (e.g. @{target|token_name}).

I feel like I'm becoming something of a Macro Ninja then.

Haha, you bet!

Andrew (Halfling Gypsy) said: I think I've found a suitable way around it, as much as I can anyway, but it means that any character mean to use it will need a Character Sheet and you can't load it in through other means it would seem. Actually, Silvyre... Can an API Button remember the 'name' of its source? As in, if a Token on the map has an API Button code loaded into it, can the API Button remember the name of the Token that spawned it? If you're going with an API solution, you can grab the ID of the player who sent the message as well as the name they've selected in the "As" dropdown. on('chat:message', function(msg) { log(msg.playerid); // id of the player who sent the message log(getObj('player', msg.playerid)); // the player who sent the message log(msg.who); // the text of the player's selection in the "As" dropdown // if the GM sends the message and their "As" dropdown is OOC, their name will have " (GM)" added });

Brian, API Buttons and API aren't quite the same. &nbsp;Silvyre's met a little of my lo-fi solution planning before. <a href="https://wiki.roll20.net/API:Chat#API_Command_Buttons" rel="nofollow">https://wiki.roll20.net/API:Chat#API_Command_Buttons</a>