Any AFK Add On or Way to Keybind/Macro it?

Mercutio

I have to step away from the computer quite often and would dearly love the ability to quickly put up an AFK message instead of navigating my guild's roster to show me offline. Anyone have a simple solution for this? Thanks in advance.

Garkin

I was going to recommend Scripter - Text UI & Notifications and AFK Notify, but neither of them set you social status to AFK, it just prints various information.

This is the code which will add slash command /afk which toggles your AFK status:

SLASH_COMMANDS["/afk"] = function()
    local status, msg
    if GetPlayerStatus() == PLAYER_STATUS_AWAY then
        status = PLAYER_STATUS_ONLINE
        msg = "Welcome back."
    else
        status = PLAYER_STATUS_AWAY
        msg = "Away from keyboard."
    end
    SelectPlayerStatus(status)
    d(msg)
end

Mercutio

Thank you so much! Do I need to make a macro for that or copy it into a file? Sorry, not very script savvy.

Garkin

You have to put it to the .lua file.

Or whatever, I can make a tiny addon which will add this commad:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/qjwb3uxn47u0b0p/AFK.zip

Mercutio

Garkin wrote: »

You have to put it to the .lua file.

Or whatever, I can make a tiny addon which will add this commad:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/qjwb3uxn47u0b0p/AFK.zip

You're the best man, thanks!

Mercutio

I'm not finding a .lua file in any of the program folders, normal or (x86). Do I need to create a folder?

Garkin

By .lua file I ment file with .lua extension inside of Addons folder.

I have packaged the code as an addon, so you do not need to worry about it. Just download AFK.zip and extract its content to the Addons folder.
( Addons folder = My Documents\Elder Scrolls Online\live\AddOns\ )

Mercutio

Garkin wrote: »

By .lua file I ment file with .lua extension inside of Addons folder.

I have packaged the code as an addon, so you do not need to worry about it. Just download AFK.zip and extract its content to the Addons folder.
( Addons folder = My Documents\Elder Scrolls Online\live\AddOns\ )

I truly appreciate it, thank you.

Mercutio

Man this works like a charm! Let me know your @ handle so I can send you some gold in appreciation. Thanks again, this is a real blessing!