FTL seems to broke with new version maybe?

[TheLostBoxer]

Okay everything was running smooth. The FTL Assist Me, FTL Follow Me keys were working great. Had my IWT key working like a champ for the most part., occasionally one toon need to stretch his legs a bit. :P So today I figured I would create a new team using the Wizard. When I exported the stuff to Innerspace I was hit with this error..

WoW Addon generation failed....

There's a problem with the Key Combination in a WOW Macro Action in Mapped Key 'FTL Follow Me' in Key Map 'General'. The Mapped key has FTL Modifiers enabled, and the Key Combination 'Alt+f' conflicts with selected FTL Modifiers in the Character Set 'Team One'

When Use FTL Modifiers is enabled for a Mapped Key, avoid using modifiers (alt, ctrl, shift) in the Key Combination for a WoW Macro Action. You may, of course, still use modifiers for the Hptkey you press to activate the Mapped Key.


To the best of my knowledge I didn't modify these keys other then the Hotkey I use to activate it with in the main Maopped Key part. I didn't change any steps or anything else. It was working fine the past few days and last night. But for some reason after creating the new team tonight and trying to export it threw up that error. and the Team that it threw it up for was one of the first teams I made a few weeks ago when. Any help would be greatly appreciated, I tried asking in the Chat room but I know people aren't constantly monitoring it so I figured the next best place would be here, Any help is greatly appreciated.

[TheLostBoxer]

Okay after banging my head against a wall, I decdided to uninstall the software and reinstall it. Now after creating a new team, it seem most of my FTL keys are back working. The only one that is still "broken" is Target Me Keymap.

[Lax]

Alt+F is the default Hotkey for FTL Follow Me, but that doesn't give the error you mentioned. That only happens if the Key Combination for the WoW Macro Action is changed to include a modifier thats also used by FTL ;)

FTL Target Me by default has no Hotkey and the Key Combination defaults to ]. If you can tell me what's broken about it I might be able to help you fix it -- though I've never found a use for this key myself.

[TheLostBoxer]

The Target Me button should target the active screen character on the other characters correct?. If that is the case it is not doing that. I am not really quite sure how these keymaps work, Since the Follow me sends F11 to WoW, but F11 is keybind to bag slot 4. But they follow me, so I'm not complaining, I'm just curious how this works out, Thanks again.

[franco]

I also got some new weird issues with new version of ISBoxer:

a) after target dies and I pick an another target, the FTL attack seems to target the old dead enemy, if I let the tank hit once before I start to spam my dps button I'm ok, if not I'm swapping between targets. This is very annoying :-/

b) another strange change was that I don't seem to be able to type in numbers properly, if I type for example 123, what goes in in 1 replaced by 2 replaced by 3. I wasn't able to figure out what causes that. Only way for me to get numbers properly in is to cut and paste those or use the number keypad, both issues seem to be related to FTL config.

Maybe I should also try to reinstall, I just hate to have to rebuild my config :)

Br,

--franco

Ps. my first post here, been more of a lurker.. but running multiboxing 2xpally, 2x shammy and mage.

[MiRai]

I also got some new weird issues with new version of ISBoxer:

a) after target dies and I pick an another target, the FTL attack seems to target the old dead enemy, if I let the tank hit once before I start to spam my dps button I'm ok, if not I'm swapping between targets. This is very annoying :-/

This sounds like target switching lag that we all experience as multiboxers. You've never been able to instantly switch targets and begin DPSing immediately. This is a limitation in World of Warcraft due to your latency to the server, not an issue with any software.


b) another strange change was that I don't seem to be able to type in numbers properly, if I type for example 123, what goes in in 1 replaced by 2 replaced by 3. I wasn't able to figure out what causes that. Only way for me to get numbers properly in is to cut and paste those or use the number keypad, both issues seem to be related to FTL config.
When you press a number key it does FTL Assist Me by default. FTL Assist Me happens to use the Backspace key, again by default. Either type the numbers out [one, two, three, etc], change the FTL Assist Me key combination, use the number pad, or remove auto assist from your FTL DPS keys in ISBoxer and use a manual assist.

[franco]

Hmm, thanks for the reply, weird thing here is that I have been using isboxer for months, and suddenly both of these issues start this week.

As far as I know I didn't change any settings.

But let me play around!

[MiRai]

Hmm, thanks for the reply, weird thing here is that I have been using isboxer for months, and suddenly both of these issues start this week.

As far as I know I didn't change any settings.

But let me play around!
I could be crazy...I haven't boxed in weeks. :)

[Lax]

The Target Me button should target the active screen character on the other characters correct?. If that is the case it is not doing that. I am not really quite sure how these keymaps work, Since the Follow me sends F11 to WoW, but F11 is keybind to bag slot 4. But they follow me, so I'm not complaining, I'm just curious how this works out, Thanks again.
Yes, that is what FTL Target Me does. I assumed that "it's not doing that" ;)

If it's details you want, details you shall receive:

Key Maps work because ISBoxer makes a key binding in WoW via the ISBoxer Addon. The default F11 key binding to toggle bag 4 is overridden by ISBoxer, and if you look in the chat window when you /reloadui or log in, ISBoxer spits out a message about that.

ISBoxer doesn't just send F11 though, it sends F11 plus the configured FTL Modifiers for the window you're in. If you're in window 1 by default that is Shift, so Shift+F11. Then that's interpreted by the WoW Macro on F11, but ONLY if there isn't a real key binding on Shift+F11 (if there is NOT, it will fall through to the key binding on F11), or an addon adds a different key binding on F11 after ISBoxer added it.

So if I had to guess, that's probably why your FTL Target Me key is not working. If you didn't change the WoW Macro Action, then the /targetexact {FTL} and the default Key Combination (which is ] ) should be intact. The final macro for your Character Set then might look something like

/targetexact [nomod:alt,mod:lshift,nomod:ctrl]CharacterA;[nomod:alt,mod:rshift,nomod:ctrl]CharacterB
So from slot 1, ISBoxer sends Shift+] to "Window: All w/o Current", and as long as there is no competing bind on Shift+] or ], the game should then interpret that as /targetexact CharacterA

If it doesn't work, I would expect that either you changed the WoW Macro Action, or there are competing binds on ] or Shift+] or the other FTL modifiers + ]



As for franco, Fenril hit it right on the money on both issues (nothing changed). Assist is client-side, meaning that when you type /assist SomeGuy, your game client will instantly target the unit that it has listed as SomeGuy's target. When you change targets, your client sends a message to the server, and the server then has to relay that message to the other players that need the information (even though you are on the same local network). So until your other guys get that message, they don't know you picked a new target. To compound the issue, there is another problem where if you attack that corpse, the game might pick another target for you, seemingly at random. To prevent this from happening, I personally use a macro for each of my abilities with a /stopmacro as the very first line to make sure the target exists, is alive, and I can harm it. Off memory that'd be something like /stopmacro [noexists] [dead] [noharm]. That way, I can spam all I want and even if my guys target a corpse temporarily, they wont try to attack it and end up hitting some other mob.

[TheLostBoxer]

I can't see anything that is binded to the ] key. And it looks exactly like what you posted, I even reset my key bindings to default and still no go. Any suggestions where I can find the elusive conflict. Thanks for the previous info, now I understand the other stuff a little better.

When i manually switch to the toons and hit Shift + ] they target the main character, but for some reason when I hit the hotkey for it on the main toon it doesn;t work. Maybe this helps