I want a new TwoBoxToolkit!!

[Poolboy]

First, let me say that TwoBoxToolkit is an AMAZING addon. It is the basis of how I run my team. Without it I'd have to work a whole lot harder! The guy that wrote this has done a wonderful job.

However, change & updates are very slow to come by, despite a lot of requests from users it seems.

my laundry list:

Less spam. More options to mute things like "You are now my Master" and options to disable any and all relays by the Master. He's the Master after all, he shouldn't need to tell the slaves anything.

Better Sticky Follow. This is my my beef actually. I, like 99% of us I'd assume will switch Leaders during play, but TBTK has no options to macro the sticky follow on and off. As a result it has to be done manually. If not, when A gives leader to B, and a fight finished, B will spin 180 to face A, even though they've both been told B is the new boss.

These few things I know have been suggested a few times, but the author doesn't seem to be getting to them all that fast. I'm not trying to crap on him because again I think his mod is absolutely amazing. I just wonder if the project is only loosely supported these days or he might be swamped with other stuff (writing addons for WoW prolly wouldn't be on the top of my priority list is say RL was calling either rofl)

So, is there anyone else using TBTK that agrees? Has the same issues as me? Other issues?
Can anyone suggest a way to get the problems fixed?
Can anyone fix them themselves?

Anyone wanna make a new exclusive dual-boxing.com addon for master/slave control? LOL (wishful thinking I'm sure)

[Poolboy]

*Slaps Fursphere mercilessly with his [Hand of the Pimp]!*

=)

[Basilikos]

I have written a few small addons before (I code for a living, btw). I have thought about adding things into TwoBoxToolkit before. I might look into it. I can't promise anything since I'm even more active IRL with my peeps than I am in WoW, so it's my usual between a rock and a hard place situation with needing an addon written.

First, I'm going to look at what's in there currently and then try to wrap my brain around it. After that, I should be able to be a little more committal / non-committal about it.

[Chorizotarian]

I haven't tried Two-Box Toolkit because of the all-in-one approach. I stay away from addons like that because I invariably wind up not liking one part and want to replace it with something else. If someone is going to revise Two-Box Toolkit perhaps it could be made more modular?

[Ilion Sturmlied]

I'm learning lua right now and work around on twoboxtoolkit as an exercise.

But I think it will take some time until I produce something useful because I can't spend a lot of time on it.

[Ughmahedhurtz]

*Slaps Fursphere mercilessly with his [Hand of the Pimp]!*

=)http://www.wowhead.com/?item=3190

Dude, that's not a purple.

[Katharsis]

Do these not work for you?

/tb master name will declare the new master
/tb sticky will toggle Sticky Follow on and off

Type /tb for a list of all the commands.

[Eteocles]

*Slaps Fursphere mercilessly with his [Hand of the Pimp]!*

=)http://www.wowhead.com/?item=3190

Dude, that's not a purple.No but most Pimp Suits are ;)

[Poolboy]

Do these not work for you?

/tb master name will declare the new master
/tb sticky will toggle Sticky Follow on and off

Type /tb for a list of all the commands.

Ahhh, that's the other thing I forgot to mention...

The command arguments On/Off don't do anything in TBTK. That is, typing /tb sticky on is exactly like simply typing /tb sticky. Likewise is the command is currently in the on position, and you type /tb sticky on... it will turn it off. It's just a toggle each time it's pressed. ?(

Sooo... trying to write a /tb sticky into the macros i use for switching Leaders would be awesome, except 2 or 3 leader changes in and all the stickies are fuxxored up.

I think the best thing for all of his commands would be to make them true On/Off args?

[Poolboy]

For clarity, here's how I handle switching Mains ~

Button (same for both characters)

Main:
/tb master Toon1name
/focus Toon1name
/1 followme

Clone2:
/tb master Toon1name
/focus Toon1name



It would be awesome to have a /tb sticky that worked as a macro to include in there, so that when you switch mains, the new leader turns off sticky follow. Currently, it's not usable, because if you have 5 toons, and rotate through all of them as leader, the on/off will get out of synch.

Does any of this make sense? I think I lost myself even. Rest assured, it's not really functional in it's current form. :wacko:

[Zuri]

It would be nice to see the sticky follow fixed.

You can disable the You are now my Master messages by opening WoW\Interface\Addons\twoboxtoolkit\twoboxtoolkit.l ua in a text editor, searching for lines containing You are now my Master and commenting them out with -- (two hyphens).

SendChatMessage("You are now my master", "WHISPER", nil, self.db.profile.master);
becomes
--SendChatMessage("You are now my master", "WHISPER", nil, self.db.profile.master);

EDIT:

OK played with the Code a bit and I may have sorted the other 2 issues I had with it, I wanted to disable sticky follow on the master and relay messages on the master. Seems to be working but YMMV.


Search the file for
function twoboxtoolkit:GetMaster()

Then add a function below it so it now reads
function twoboxtoolkit:GetMaster()
return self.db.profile.master
end

function twoboxtoolkit:IsMaster()
return (string.lower(UnitName("Player")) == twoboxtoolkit:GetMaster())
end

Change
function twoboxtoolkit:PLAYER_REGEN_ENABLED()
if (self.db.profile.sticky and lastFollow ~= nil and isBroken) then
FollowUnit(lastFollow);
isBroken = false
end
end

To
function twoboxtoolkit:PLAYER_REGEN_ENABLED()
if (self.db.profile.sticky and lastFollow ~= nil and isBroken and not twoboxtoolkit:IsMaster()) then
FollowUnit(lastFollow);
isBroken = false
end
end

Change the function twoboxtoolkit:relayMessage(msg)so that it starts
function twoboxtoolkit:relayMessage(msg)
if (twoboxtoolkit:IsMaster()) then
return
end
if (self.db.profile.relaychannel == nil or string.len(self.db.profile.relaychannel) == 0) then

[Djarid]

tbh I prefer whisperrelay and multiboxer addons which gives me sticky follow, whispers etc without having to install TBTK

There is a drive to collect together the community addons... perhaps integrating them into a modular framework.

[Poolboy]

Multiboxer addon?

[zanthor]

All my mods are in the process of being polished for public release. Unfortuntely right now they are cobbled together into quite an interesting amalgamation of RDX components... since I heavily rely on RDX and it's so extensible it worked well for me, as part of the polish I'm trying to make them Ace2 based instead of RDX.

Right now I've got the quest broadcaster, follow on, follow off, some basic alerts for if you are out of range, castbars for your minions, the ability to switch mains based on focus... dynamic macro rebuilding...

That said, I wouldn't expect to see my stuff released for a few months at best, life is busy and my freetime is generally spent doing dailies!

[Djarid]

multiboxer can be found here http://www.dual-boxing.com/wiki/index.php/Addons

it is the 2nd on the list

[The IT Monkey]

Right now I've got the quest broadcaster, follow on, follow off, some basic alerts for if you are out of range, castbars for your minions, the ability to switch mains based on focus... dynamic macro rebuilding...Speaking of Quest Broadcaster there Zanthor... are there any commands to get that to work? I installed it on all my accounts and it doesn't seem to do anything. What did I miss?

[Djarid]

Yes I have the same problem, it doesn't seem to do much :)

[gamemaster000]

From what I remember, multiboxer still spins the toon around when you switch leaders, right? It may be a limitation of the client (or it may just be using the same code).

I use multiboxer, myself. Like Djarid, I like the modular approach. It's easier to grasp what each addon is doing, and you can avoid a bunch of stuff getting loaded that you may not even take advantage of.