teleport bind not working

could use some help on getting the lshift teleport bind to work on a warshade. trying to set up some of the binds I have seen posted on these forums but having trouble getting the teleport bind to work correctly.

I am using: bind lshift+lbutton powexecname shadow step, as part of a larger string of binds for when I drop into human form. it works, sort of. when I press the shift key I get the targeting cursor and then pressing the left mouse button teleports me and immediately sets out the next targeting cursor. this gets to be a pain as it always puts out one more targeting circle than I want. so I have to be careful not to hit the mouse button or I teleport past where I want to go. have to either hit <esc> to clear the targetting circle or make sure I wait for it to expire.

I have used this bind, by itself, for other characters that teleport and it doesn't show the targeting cursor, it just teleports me to where my regular cursor is pointing when I hold down the shift key and hit the left mouse button.

does this bind work differently when used by itself instead of in a compound string of binds? or is there a slightly different format I should be using to get this to work without putting out the targeting circle?

any help would be appreciated. thanks

It would look like this.

/bind shift+lbutton "powexec_name Shadow Step"

I think what's tripping you up is the fact that the power name for a Warshade is two words, and not one like Teleport and therefore all but requires the use of " ".

(Also, _s are totally optional. powexecname = powexec_name = po_we_x_ecnam_e)

darn, no luck

tried every combination of shift, lshift, lclick, lbutton, with quotes, without extra quotes, moving the teleport command around within the larger bind string. and I still get the targeting circle and an extra teleport at the end unless I hit <esc> or let it expire.

oh well, guess I will just have to get used to it. not game breaking or anything, just frustrating because I know there has to be a way to get it to work.

may try saving a bind file and calling it instead of building the key bind into the larger bind. didn't think it should make any difference but worth trying

thanks for trying to help everyone

Looks to me like this bind (as presented by kendo upthread) would only work if Sprint was already on. The reason being, you can only activate one power at a time with any macro or bind (this is an anti-botting measure).

So, if Sprint is on, then the powexectoggleon command ignores Sprint and you get your powexecname Shadow Step command. You teleport. If Sprint is off, then Sprint turns on instead of you teleporting. You cannot do both with one bind.

The virtue of the powexectoggleon command is that it'll null itself if the power is already on (unlike powexecname, which will turn powers on and off). Tankers have taken advantage of this for a long time now for their armors, using a long string of powexectoggleon commands to turn on all their armors. Note, however, that such a bind would have to be clicked once for each armor to be turned on. The same limitation applies - only one power execution per bind keypress.

You can also turn off as many powers as you like simultaneously with a bind or macro - there is no limit on turning stuff off.

As for the quotes question, you don't need multiple sets or nested quotation marks. I just use quote marks around the whole bind command string and it works just fine for me. As Novella said, tell us precisely what you want to do and we should be able to troubleshoot you.

Also, always type in your binds rather than copy/pasting them as sometimes word processing or forum software will 'help' you and mess up your bind.

Looks like Gilia's arrived at the source of the specific reticle problem, or at least that sounds plausible. Hopefully the feedback I provided on the larger bind string was helpful in some respect - if not, I apologize for the clutter. Binds can be challenging for many people trying to stremline their Khelds and I tend to try to anticipate problems.

YEAH !!! got it to work. and looking through the /bindsavefile did the trick.

somehow, no matter what I deleted or changed in the bind file, every time I logged in and flipped through the forms, it inserted this back into the bind file


SHIFT+LBUTTON "powexec_name shadow step"


I tried deleting it several times, tried /unbind, etc, then reloaded the binds file without that in there. and every time, it got inserted back in.

finally, I decided that if I couldn't beat it, I would try to force it to do my bidding :-) so the next time I saved the bind file and this was in there, I left the bind but changed it to


SHIFT+LBUTTON ""


and that seems to be working. whatever was inserting that bind every time apparently doesn't overwrite this. or maybe this overwrites whatever was inserting the shadow step bind in there.

either way, right now my warshade is much happier. thanks everyone for all your help. and pass along the idea of using /bindsavefile command to edit things.