Conditional focus macro

I have been looking at some macro possiblities and saw that I could do

/cast [target=focus] Shackles (or along those lines)

to cast Shackles on my focus instead of my target. This would be very
usefule also for the diverting shot of my hunter and a few others. However,
I would prefer not to have to use two short cuts, one that uses the spell on
my target and another one that casts it on my focus.

So what I am really looking for is some macro that casts the spell on the
focus if I have one and on my target otherwise.

Is this possible to do and if so, what would such a macro need to look like?

Thanks for any tips
Cheers
Urbin

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On 2007-06-26, Urbin <urbin.TakeThisOut@dunmorogh.eu> wrote:
>
> I have been looking at some macro possiblities and saw that I could do
>
> /cast [target=focus] Shackles (or along those lines)
>
> to cast Shackles on my focus instead of my target. This would be very
> usefule also for the diverting shot of my hunter and a few others. However,
> I would prefer not to have to use two short cuts, one that uses the spell on
> my target and another one that casts it on my focus.
>
> So what I am really looking for is some macro that casts the spell on the
> focus if I have one and on my target otherwise.
>
> Is this possible to do and if so, what would such a macro need to look like?

You could use the [nomodifier] and [modifier:shift] pair to have a macro
that does two different things, depending upon whether you hold down
shift when you click the button or not.

Credit where it's due -- I read it here (you have to unbreak the line-wrap)

http://www.wowinsider.com/2007/06/20/big-red-kitty-a-little-deeper-
with-hunter-macros/