Toggle Modifier

[Fomeny]

Hi there,

I know, this is not exactly a boxing-specific thing, but in this forum I actually find quiet a lot "out of the box" thinking, so there is a good chance that someone knows :)

I'm looking for a software/addon/etc. to toggle a modifier. Namely control with my 5th mouse button. This would allow me, to set up specific macros to "cast on focus" with this modifier.

Why toggle? Well, I think this might interest some of the pvp shamies aswell. Currently, I have to switch target to burst another player than the one I'm currently targeting. Using the "toggle", would perfectly fine allow me to exchange targets unnoticed, since I'm playing as if my focus was my normal target while "ctrl" is toggled.

Any ideas? :)

[Ualaa]

Well, with any software you could use a modifier key quite easily.

Macro on "1".
#show Spell
<Insert Assist Here>
/cast [mod:ctrl, Target=Focus] Spell; Spell

This will cast at your focus, when the Control modifier is held, but cast at whatever your normal target is otherwise... as determined by the assist conditions in the macro.




I'd recommend IS Boxer for a true toggle type effect.

You can build a mapped key, which executes on press and release.
Set the mouse button as the hotkey for this mapped key.
Give it two steps.
The first step loads/enables an alternate Keymap (set of mapped keys).
The second step unloads/disables the alternate Keymap.
If you wanted to use the same keybinds as your normal mapped keys, the first step could also disable the normal keymap, while the second could enable it again.

In play, you'd have something like...
- Pressing "1" has all of your slaves auto-assist (via FTL, which is done by IS Boxer) the active toon, and then cast whatever is on the "1" keybind for each.
- If however, you were to hold the toggle (mouse button), then the normal FTL DPS Keymap is unloaded and the alternate Keymap is loaded in its place. So pressing "1" does whatever is in the alternate mapped key, instead of the normal default action. And when you release the mouse button, the toggle effect ends and everything is normal again.

[Fomeny]

Sorry, I probably didn't express clearly, what I meant. I try again..

I'm looking for a possibility, to toggle (ON/OFF) a keyboard button in WoW.

For example: I press "ctrl" and it stays active until I press "ctrl" again. (Sort of how Shift --> Caps Lock works)

[Katharsis]

Hokeynet's <Toggle> function:

http://hotkeynet.com/ref/toggle.html

[Freddie]

For example: I press "ctrl" and it stays active until I press "ctrl" again. (Sort of how Shift --> Caps Lock works)
I believe you can do this with Windows (although I've never tried it) using its Sticky Keys feature together with the Sticky Keys "lock modifiers" option.

These settings are somewhere in Control Panel.

[Ualaa]

Not saying you need IS Boxer for this, just that you could accomplish this with IS Boxer.

Instead of two steps, executed on press and release.
Go with two steps, and the default 'execute a step on release only'.

Not sure that this will work with ctrl as the hotkey for the mapped key (toggle).
But you could set just about any key combination as the toggle hotkey.
So pressing Ctrl + T (for example), could run step 1 of the mapped key (enables the toggle), and pressing Ctrl + T again, toggles it off.
In effect, the same as Caps Lock or Num Lock.