ISboxer + jamba = bug?

The last few times I've logged in, Jamba has been having some trouble with Isboxer when the screen is switched between characters. usually the master will change when I change screens, and will have no trouble changing back when I return to my main master. However, recently it has been randomly changing masters while I am playing, and as a result my current main screen is following the automatically following the slaves each time I leave combat. Sometimes I can fix the problem by switching screens again, but this doesn't always fix the issue.

Any ideas?

Check your settings carefully (both ISBoxer switching settings and Jamba Team settings on all toons). I have no problems with ISBoxer and Jamba switching masters.

Well it usually only happens when I need to switch between multiple characters a lot in a short time span, so im thinking it might have something to do with lag?

After they introduced the throttle on inspects (or server requests) I sometimes experience a lag in switching master. Most of the time everything goes smoothly but once in a while the switch only happends after about 20 seconds, I can usually provoke this by switching master a few times in short bursts.

Forcing the switch to master by using the hotkeys makes no difference, I have even seen the swtich following the toons I switched to in order, so if I switch to toon2, see that the switch is not made and I try to switch back to toon1, perhaps even toon3 I can see that they switch after about 20 secs in that order, so to me it seems that requests is being passed it just gets queued sometwhere

Could it be that the combination of other addons and jamba that causes the server to throttle our requests?

Ok, I know what the problem is here.

When you use the IsBoxer macro to switch masters it issues the command:

/jamba-team iammaster all

What this does is send a message across the addon channel to tell the toons to change master. The addon channel is slow (nothing* we can do about it).

The best solution to solve this lag problem is to remove the lag altogether. This is done by removing the Jamba-Team iammaster all command and replacing it with several macros.

I would add a macro to each hotkey for a toon and put the name in of the toon in the master command and send that macro to all toons. If you have 5 toons, you need 5 seperate macros.

The command is:

/jamba-team master <name>

Where <name> is the name of the toon that will become the master. You can use {SLOT1} .. {SLOT5} in ISBoxer macros to save you typing the name of your characters each time you change a team (I have not tested this).

So, when you press F1, every toon executes the macro /jamba-team master toon1, when you press F2 every toon executes /jamba-team master toon2, etc.

I don't have time to build this in ISBoxer right now, but if I ever do, I'll post it on this forum.


* Not entirely true, there are some things you can do, but I leave those for another topic.

Yeah I've known that for a while and actually that's how it was originally implemented in ISBoxer. It's just messy compared to 1 macro.

However... to me it seems to get dropped altogether instead of just going through in however many seconds. I haven't specifically tested to be sure, because it usually doesn't matter to me that the master didn't switch (note that I am not using jamba follow features). I'm not sure I buy the throttling thing for this case, since you can push all of your settings and it doesn't take 20 seconds... what's a little "hey I'm the master" message?