Dual Boxing noob

[SavageThrash]

Well here is what i want to do:

Run two wow accounts on teh same computer but play one in fullscreen or windowed mode and NOT have to switch between the two. Currently i play 2 accounts by having both in windowed mode and sending my hunter pet in then having hunter start aimshot/autoshot. Then i select my mage and just have him fireball away. The problem is switching between the 2 accounts.

Is there anyone i can use a program to send keystrokes to my mage while its running in the background?

Im pretty sure autohotkey can do it but tbh i don't know how to set it up. If someone gave me the code i needed and such i could prolly set the correct key binds and such... Anything that makes it where i don't have to actully switch between both clients.

Thanks Savage

One thing, i dont want to push 1 button and have both charas do something. i want to have 2 sets of buttons individually, so say 1,2,3 were for hunter then i could use 4,5,6, from within my hunter client to cast a fireball on my mage, no alt tabbing required.

[Runiat]

Actually that'd be really useful, a guide on how to set up AHK for keys 1 through 10, possibly including modifiers for some of them.. Ye know, just to give an example and a way to test it.

[Xzin]

Hopefully somebody can write it :)

We get a lot of people who are interested in dual boxing. I can't speak to that as much as I can 5 boxing.

[Runiat]

Give me a year and it should be a piece of cake, starting on an engineering degree in Software Technology in a couple of months..

Until then.. Anyone?

[SavageThrash]

What your saying then is you cant program keys to be pressed when the client is minimized?

so i have to open the client and press the keys and switch back?

[Tech249]

I just started to mess with AutoHotKeys today. I work in IT so its not to hard, but I will post some stuff to get people started.

AutoHotKey's website is here. The program allows you to send keystrokes to other programs running on your PC via window ID.
http://www.autohotkey.com/

First, download the program here:
http://www.autohotkey.com/download/

Next install the program and do the very first page of their intro/tutorial. It will show you how the program works and how to make a very basic script. This takes about 5m to complete.

Next, goto this thread, the first script listed is a basic one for WoW.
http://www.autohotkey.com/forum/topic19616.html&highlight=wow

Hope this helps!

[Xzin]

Also, take a look at the quick start tutorial:

http://www.autohotkey.com/docs/Tutorial.htm

[SavageThrash]

Ok well ive read through all this stuff and im thinking that:

I am in wowid#1, i press 2

so it executes this
KeyWait, 2, D
ControlSend,, 2 , ahk_id %wowid1%
ControlSend,, 2 , ahk_id %wowid2%

that would make both accounts act as if key 2 was pressed but if i did

KeyWait, 2, D
ControlSend,, 2 , ahk_id %wowid2%

now it would only send that command to wowid#2

if it only sent it to wowid#2 is it going to have to bring up that wow window execute the command and then minimize it again and go back to wowid#1 or will it stay minimized on my task bar?