Guide: HowTo use HotKeyNet for boxing

[Xanil]

Well basically, with my last installation what I got from Tehgamers I was able to do some scripts that automatically closed both my clients and I didnt even have to use my admin for that... Maybe ill dl that version again and try this witht that

[spudstar99]

hello .. me is trieing HKN and it looks very nasty ...
but i suck .. i don't know why my script doesn't work ?!
can someone maybe give it a look please ?!
my problem ... i load the script and then .. i push the button but nothing happen ..
this is what HKN says

Loading script D:\dl\hotkeynet_171\multi.txt.

Finished loading hotkey file.
 No errors were found
 0 definitions were loaded
 0 keys will be used as modifiers

this is my code ...

<Command ResizeAndPosition>
   <SendPC Local>
      <SendWin %1%>
               <SetWinRect 0 0 1280 1024>              
      <SendWinM %2%>
             <SetWinRect 1280 0 640 512>  
        <SendWinM %3%>
            <SetWinRect 1280 512 640 512>     
        <SendWinM %4%>
            <SetWinRect 1920 0 640 512>  


<Command LaunchAndRename>
   <SendPC %1%>
  <Run %2%>
  <RenameTargetWin %3%>
  <RemoveWinFrame>
  <SetAffinity %4%>

//-----------------------------------------------------------
// HOTKEY TO LAUNCH AND RENAME YOUR WOW WINDOWS while 5 boxing
// Please configure the Path and processor afinitys correctly
//-----------------------------------------------------------
<Hotkey L>
<LaunchAndRename Local "E:\Spiele\wow 3\wow.exe" WoW1 1>
<LaunchAndRename Local "E:\Spiele\wow 4\wow.exe" WoW2 1>
<LaunchAndRename Local "E:\Spiele\wow 5\wow.exe" WoW3 1>
<LaunchAndRename Local "E:\Spiele\wow 6\wow.exe" WoW4 1>
<ResizeAndPosition WoW1 WoW2 WoW3 WoW4>


//-----------------------------------------------------------
// DEFINE MAIL LABELS FOR SENDING KEY STROKES. 
//-----------------------------------------------------------
<Label w1 Local SendWinM WoW1>
<Label w2 Local SendWinM WoW2>
<Label w3 Local SendWinM WoW3>
<Label w4 Local SendWinM WoW4>

//-----------------------------------------------------------
// DEFINE HOTKEYS FOR ALL KEY COMBINATIONS THAT WILL GET
// SENT TO BOTH WOWS. ADD MORE KEY COMBO'S IF YOU WANT. 
//-----------------------------------------------------------
<Hotkey ScrollLockOn A-Z, 0-9, Plus, Minus, F1-F12 except W, A, S, D, Q, E, L>
<SendLabel w1, w2, w3, w4>
<Key %Trigger%> 

//-----------------------------------------------------------
// DEFINE MOVEMENT KEYS THAT WILL GET SENT TO BOTH WOW'S.
// ADD MORE KEYS IF YOU WANT. 
//-----------------------------------------------------------
<MovementHotkey ScrollLockOn up, down, left, right>
<SendLabel w1, w2, w3, w4> 
<Key %Trigger%> 

//-----------------------------------------------------------
// BROADCAST MOUSE CLICKS. HOLD DOWN OEM3 (ON U.S. KEYBOARDS,
// THAT'S THE SQUIGGLE KEY IN UPPPER LEFT CORNER) WHEN YOU 
// WANT TO BROADCAST.
//-----------------------------------------------------------
<UseKeyAsModifier Oem3>

<Hotkey ScrollLockOn Oem3 LButton, MButton, RButton, Button4, Button5>
   <SendLabel w1, w2, w3, w4> 
      <ClickMouse %TriggerMainKey%>

Thank you ...

[olipcs]

your script ooks ok for me, but what is realy strange is this:

Finished loading hotkey file.
 No errors were found
 0 definitions were loaded
 0 keys will be used as modifiers 

because, to test your script, i simply cut and pasted it, loaded it in hotkeynet, and HKN showed correctly:

Finished loading hotkey file.
    No errors were found
    59 definitions were loaded
    1 key will be used as a modifier 

so you are realy sure, you loaded the right file and not an empty one? (i know dumb question, but sometiems its that simple).

I attached the file, i used to test, maybe this might help.

[Freddie]

If there is any doubt about whether a script got loaded, press "Show loaded hotkeys" at the bottom of HotkeyNet's main window. If you see hotkeys, they got loaded. If you don't, they didn't.

[spudstar99]

sry .. i'm that dumb .. yeah it was realy the wrong folder ...
thanks for ya help ... hope i did not stolen too much of you time
sincery spud

[Freddie]

No problem!

[Drew]

Thanks for the great how-to posts and the sample files on the HKN site. It took a bit of futzing around, but I was finally able to get things up and running.

And, no, it wasn't as hard as everybody makes it out to be!

I'd purchased Keyclone, which I'd been using under XP, but with Windows 7 being free for now, I wanted to give that a go. I didn't want to buy a second copy of Keyclone to use under W7 (since if W7 wasn't my thing I'd just go back to XP), so I gave HKN a go. It took an hour or so to get everything set up the way I'd had it in Keyclone, but now it's working great!

Okay, there is one thing. Making a slave account loot a mob. Does anybody know how to do that in HKN?

Edit: Okay, so it's 2 more things. I really like the pixel-perfect customization of HKN's PiP setup, but is it possible to use it with two monitors on one system? I know how to do it in Keyclone because you can specify which monitor to use there, but how about in HKN?

[falsfire3401]

Okay, there is one thing. Making a slave account loot a mob. Does anybody know how to do that in HKN?

This is what I do using HKN to make the slave loot easily and painlessly:

I have a macro on the slave toon that does /target party1target. I keybind this macro to \ (backslash) and setup HKN to pass backslashes to the 2nd client
Then I used wow's keybind menu to keybind Shift-\ (shift backslash) to "Interact with Target" and setup HKN to pass shift-backslash through to the 2nd client.


So when I want to make the slave loot a mob, after I kill it I just target the corpse on my main, get the slave close enough and hit backslash shift-backslash and presto she loots it.

The exact same setup is how I get the slaves to interact with quest NPCs, vendors, innkeepers, and flight masters.

[olipcs]

I got the following PM, regarding HKN, and because some others may find the infos also usefull, I like to post the my answer here.

PM:

Damnit, you're making me want to switch to HKN.

Mind if I ask you some questions? I'm still reading your guide for it and general documentation before I get started, but some of these are dealbreakers for me :).

Is it possible to set up a pause hotstrings button? So instead of 1 sending the ctrl shift 1 to wow2 it would just send 1?
Is it possible to set up a pause DNP so you can send the WASD keys over?
I think I've heard you or others say before that window switching is almost instant, is this correct? (I'm comparing it to keyclone here)

Thanks!

Answer:
Hi,

glad to hear that the guide is of some use for you.

First of all, what you have to understand is, that there isn't the concept of 'hotstrings' in HKN, because technical in HKN all Hotkeys are 'hotstrings' because HKN isn't a keybroadcaster like keyclone, but a 'hotkey'-program, where you simply define what should happen when you press a 'trigger' (a key, or a keycombination).

To your questions:

is it possible to set up a pause hotstrings button? So instead of 1 sending the ctrl shift 1 to wow2 it would just send 1?

If I understand you correct you want something, that activates/deactivates FTL-behaviour by pressing a key?
- IF so, yes this can be achived with HKN, and I will show you how, with a small example.

lets say you want to use 'o' for toggeling ftl on/off. The first Hotkey I define for this is 'o' and its only purpose is to toggle a variable 'ftl_on_off' (with '0' meaning of, '1' meaning on).

<Hotkey o>
 	<If ftl_on_off is 0>
         	<SetVar ftl_on_off 1>
 	<Else>
        	<SetVar ftl_on_off 0>

what I now do in the FTL-Key is first check the state of 'ftl_on_off', and when its '0' I simply broadcast the key which activated the hotkey.
This can be done, with changing the templates presented here: [HotKeyNet] Implementing an FTL quite simple with templates
a little to include the 'ftl_on_off'-check and altering the other conditions to 'ElseIf' like:

<Template SendMasterAndSlave>
         <SendFocusWin>
                  <Key %1%>
         <Sendlabel %4%>
                  <Key %3% %2%>
<EndTemplate>

<Template SendLeaderless>
        <Else If ActiveWinIs %4%>
            <ApplyTemplate SendMasterAndSlave "%1%" "%2%" "%3%" "%5%">
<EndTemplate>

<Template FTL>
          <Hotkey %1%>     
                  <If ftl_on_of is 0>
	                    <Sendlabel w1,w2,w3,w4,w5>
          	                       <Key %1%>
                   <ApplyTemplate SendLeaderless "%1%" "%2%" "rctrl rshift" WoW1 "w2,w3,w4,w5">
                   <ApplyTemplate SendLeaderless "%1%" "%2%" "rctrl ralt" WoW2 "w1,w3,w4,w5">
                   <ApplyTemplate SendLeaderless "%1%" "%2%" "ralt rshift" WoW3 "w1,w2,w4,w5">
                   <ApplyTemplate SendLeaderless "%1%" "%2%" "rctrl ralt rshift" WoW4 "w1,w2,w3,w5">
                   <ApplyTemplate SendLeaderless "%1%" "%2%" "rctrl" WoW5 "w1,w2,w3,w4">          
<EndTemplate>

which you then would define for '1' by simply adding the following line:

<ApplyTemplate FTL 1 1>

I hope the general concept is quite clear with the example, to put it short its:
1. define the 'activating'-Hotkey to set a Variable ('o' / 'ftl_on_of')
2. In the hotkeys which should be send first check the state of the variable and act appropriate

Is it possible to set up a pause DNP so you can send the WASD keys over?

This could be achived on two ways:
1. also with setting a variable and then defining Movement Hotkeys like this for w,a,s,d:

<MovementHotkey W,A,S,D>
	<If pass_wsad is 1>
        	<SendLabel w1,w2,w3,w4,w5>
              	         <Key %trigger%>
	<Else>
     	        <SendFocusWin>
              	            <Key %trigger%>

2. with using CapsLock, NumLock or ScrollLock (or another key as a modifier, which you would need to press)for switching on/off like:

<MovementHotkey CapsLockOn A,S,W,D>
   	<Sendlabel w1,w2,w3,w4,w5>
           	<Key %TriggerMainKey%>

I think I've heard you or others say before that window switching is almost instant, is this correct? (I'm comparing it to keyclone here)

First of all, the following is purely subjective and not a general statement.
On my system regarding to windowswitching speed HKN was faster than Keyclone but only a little (so there where no real big difference between them), when you want real fast windowswitching speed Innerspace would be your option (as a matter of fact for 2 month I used Innerspace and HKN in combinition, with Innerspace only for the windowswitching and HKN for everything else).

I hope I could help you with your questions,
Olipcs

[Pocalypse]

I got the following PM, regarding HKN, and because some others may find the infos also usefull, I like to post the my answer here.

Thank you very much Olipcs (and Freddie)!

I've set up HKN now with all of the above (only took me about 4 hours, I was expecting it to be harder), and so far it looks like it'll work much better than what I'm used to. I get to use Shift and Alt modifiers with FTL now, even set up for 10 man!

Oh, and it took me about half an hour trying to get the pause FTL key to work, before I noticed you inserted another 'Else' into the SendLeaderless template, which fixed everything .

Gonna mess with it more tomorrow, but I'm very happy right now.