Creating Actions

  • Click Show/Hide and select Show ActionButtons

Action editor labeled
  • The grid contains 9 available action slots that are executed in order from 1-9.

  • Click and Drag an Action onto to the grid to place it

  • By default newly placed actions will enter the Edit screen.

Press Key

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  • This action simulates a keypress on the computer

  • Press “Set Key” to set the desired key

  • If you want the shift, control, or alt key to be held enable it

  • Enable or Disable direct input. If you intend to use the Action in a game enable the Direct Input, if you want to enter text into a App, e.g NotePad, Disable Direct Input

  • Click done to complete the key press

Enter Text

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  • This action enters a large amount of text through the keyboard

  • Put the text in the white box

Attention

Please note that some Unicode Characters won’t display properly in SoundWarZ and will show up at [] on screen. Despite this the correct character will be typed out

Delay

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  • Delays executing next action for entered amount of seconds

Creating an Example Action

  • Create an ActionButton that types text into a games chat

  • We want a button the to press the Enter Key, Input Text, and then press the Enter key again

Create the Press Key Action

  1. Left click and drag Press Key into Cell 1

  2. The screen changes to the Actions Properties

  3. Click on Set Key and press Enter on the keyboard

  4. Click Done

Create the Enter Text Action

  1. Left click and drag Enter Text into Cell 2

  2. In the Edit screen enter the text into the white text box

  3. Click Done

Press the Enter key again

  1. Left click and drag Press Key into Cell 1

  2. The screen changes to the Actions Properties

  3. Click on Set Key and press Enter on the keyboard

  4. Click Done

Finish the button

  1. Enter the desired button name in the Button Text box

  2. Click Done to create the button

Completed Example Action