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Brear
09-08-2008, 11:42 AM
I have a "small" Problem with my Multiboxing-Setup on my Mac Pro.

I`m using 2 Displays, the 1st with my Main Window Maximixed and the 2nd with my 4 Alt`s. ClonedKeys is working great, leveling goes well, but now my Problem.

Every time I logout, my Account`s Window Settings are not saved for every Window, so I have to rearrange the windows everytime I start the Games. The new Position is always the Position from the window I logout last. When I closed my 4th Toon window last, all windows are opened in the lower right corner from my second Display.

Is that a problem, because I duplicated my main WoW-Folder 4 times?

Thanks for your help

wetstreet
09-08-2008, 01:51 PM
Short answer: I don't think you can do that.

Long answer:
On the Mac, each program has a unique name ("World of Warcraft" for example). Even though you created 4 copies of the application, that name will be the same for each one. The window location, however, is stored in your user directory (in the Library/Preferences/com.blizzard.World\ of\ Warcraft.prefs file to be exact). If you carefully look inside that file you will see an entry for WindowBounds. Because all 4 copies share the same prefs file then they will all show up at the same place and with the same size. It looks like the prefs are written out when the application closes so the last one closed is the starting location for all four.

Short rant on my part :D
On top of that, WoW doesn't accept any AppleScript commands so you can't tell a window to change its bounds. To make matters worse, even if WoW did accept AppleScript tells how would you identify which Application "World of Warcraft" is which?