Mod Idea

Is anyone able to create an addon that could place icons in the macro titles? so instead of having a macro called "Fire 6" we could have a "*FireIcon* 6"? since macro titles only allow 8 characters mayo the input for it could be something like "#23 6"

Would be easy on the eyes while scrolling through macro and finding what youre looking for faster.

That's, actually a really good and new idea!

While this would be nice, I'm pretty sure it would require a level of memory access to the game that windower4 doesn't really support. I dunno about ashita though.

Basically, windower4 has no freaking clue when your macro palette is open or not, much less which palette you are looking at. You could work around the former by detecting key strokes(Controller would have a harder time there), and this would still have some jank cause it'd count any ctrl/alt press as opening the macro palette without regard to the current menu... But the latter would, I think, pretty much require direct memory access. It's the same reason we don't have a bunch of full UI replacements already, and just have stuff we layer on top of the current UI instead.

So, you can make a replacement for the macro system, like XIVhotbar does, but there are issues with trying to integrate an addon with the native XI macro system.

Perhaps someone a bit more knowledgeable than me can explain in more detail.

It wouldn't be that hard to do it with ashita, but I don't really see the point personally. The macro system replacements are much more comprehensive than the built in one, which is mostly trash.

I don't think the macro-system replacements have been well-publicized. Or at least, one comes to mind and it may not be the one that you're thinking of. Do you have a link or a screenshot?

To Cloudius's point, I support any and all improvements to accessibility features. (This game's text is just BAD for aging eyes).

Ashita and windower both have keyboard based hotbar addons and controller based crossbar addons. Each has some features the other doesn't, but both can be customized in size, have many more display elements than just a name, and save to standardized formats for easy transition from pc to pc. I get that some people are traditionalists, but I think the benefit of any mod to vanilla macros is pretty marginal when these tools exist.

windower (there are likely others, and i'm not positive this is the latest/best branch of xivhotbar):
https://github.com/AliekberFFXI/xivcrossbar
https://github.com/Akirane/XIVHotbar

ashita4:
https://github.com/ThornyFFXI/tHotBar
https://github.com/ThornyFFXI/tCrossBar

Ashita3:
https://gitlab.com/farmboy0/ashita-addons/-/tree/master/xivhotbar (uses a lua shim to load an older version of windower's hotbar)

This is just a quick mock up but i'd like it to look like this.

Definitely recommend Crossbar for this. I just used Emojis and it works fine.