Custom Macro Icons changing everytime

[Yukero]

Good Morning everyone,

I did custom macro icons and they work overall. I can see my custom icons for the macro.
But I think because Blizzard is adding new icons my custom icons getting changed everytime.
This is what I have in my macros-cache.txt:

VER 3 000000000000001C "9 - 10man" "-9205"
/script Grid2:SetDefaultTheme("heal10man")
END
VER 3 0000000000000016 "9 - 15man" "-9198"
/script Grid2:SetDefaultTheme("heal15man")
END
VER 3 0000000000000017 "9 - 20man" "-9206"
/script Grid2:SetDefaultTheme("heal20man")
END
VER 3 0000000000000018 "9 - 25man" "-9197"
/script Grid2:SetDefaultTheme("heal25man")
END
VER 3 0000000000000019 "9 - 30man" "-9194"
/script Grid2:SetDefaultTheme("heal30man")
END
VER 3 000000000000001A "9 - 40man" "-9203"
/script Grid2:SetDefaultTheme("heal40man")
END
VER 3 0000000000000014 "9 - m+" "-9195"
/script Grid2:SetDefaultTheme("m+")
END

I tried to change the numbers without the "-" but it doesn't work. I get green icons.
Also tried to change the iconnumber to the Filename like:

VER 3 0000000000000019 "9 - 30man" "dreißig.tga"

Every custom icon i made is in the Interface\ICONS Folder

Anyone has an idea how to set the icons permanently?

Thanks in advance
Yukero

[Kanegasi]

In the macro file, the second entry in quotes is the file ID of the desired icon. None of those numbers are valid icon files in the game data.

You cannot make a macro use a custom file. However, you can "replace" an icon file and then use that.

Take this icon for example. The file ID is in the url, so in the macro file, you would use 1044087.

With a wago.tools search, we see the file path in the game data is interface/icons/6bf_blackrock_nova. You would then make your own texture at that place in your install as either a .tga file or find a .blp convertor, making sure the pixel height and width is a power of 2.

When looking for an icon to replace, check https://wowhead.com/icons to see where the icon is used so you don't replace a spell or item you may come across and get confused. For example, the old engineering icon is extensively used in hidden stuff and as a "temporary" icon.

As a final note, 134400 is the file ID for the red question mark on a black background, the default "smart" icon when using #showtooltip. That file path is interface/icons/inv_misc_questionmark if you want to make your action bars look a little better.

[Yukero]

Hey Kanegasi,

thank you for your good explanation!
The icon replace is working like intended.
Let's hope that it will not change now.

Thank you very much!

EDIT: It works. Thank you very much again @Kanegasi!!