keyclone v1.3c - hotstrings, extended keys, and more

Feature Request: AutoKeymap Loading.

Can you set it so if the keymaps exist it automaps...

IE: I rename the 3 instances to my toons names: Aazan, Bazan and Cazan... so if keymaps exist with Aazan.kcl it would autoload once I renamed?

Hi,

bought today a copy of your app and sending the pressed key to the other windows works fine and very easy to setup :)

But, i didn't get pressing Strg, Alt or Shift to work, none of them will be sent to the other windows. Even Mouse Clicking doesn't work. I created a custom UI and copied it to the other WoW Copy's, so everything is on the same place. Now when i press on a button, it will not be pressed on the other windows (just a simple macro with /a <charname>).

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Originally Posted by keyclone

ah, i see... if you don't type anything between load and save, then when you hit save, it will ask for the file name. having something in that box will take it completely and literally as the absolute file name.
(fix filename already in box... check)

i usually leave that box blank and type in the description. i also put a number of hotstrings together in a single map.

re: internally generated
i'm not quite sure what you mean... but the point would be to allow the user to generate the keymaps in order to allow an almost unlimited set of keys to associate with the various actions. for your main window, load a key map that does LCtrl+G='mount' ... and for the clones, load a different keymap that does F2='mount' (or any key... try without the alt/ctrl/shift).. and just have their F2 tied to mount.

i'm assuming the other clones are on other machines. hmph. (pita)

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Very cool. I renamed the keymap for the clone, and set the mount hotkey to F12 instead of LCtrl+G. It's so fun to see everyone mount at the same time. So others are aware, there is a slight delay between the main and the other windows, so if you press keys too quickly, the windows will get out of sync. I think this is happening because the main gets the command while the other windows are still casting the first thing.

As others have said, this is a very very nice program. It is simple, and provides very useful features. The basic keys get sent to all windows perfectly, so other than a few kinks with the details, it is absolutely amazing.

I'm home now and will start to put some docs together.

Manny, after reading your post i think i'll revisit the round robin stuff. i think it might be easier if the round robin worked with the hotstrings, thereby having 'sheep' in the round robin instead of 'F9'.

i'm also not sure how the round robin would work with hotstrings that are using different keys.

re: autoloading keymaps
that would be cool, but i would have to know which character was logged in on that instance of wow. BTW, this is where the command strings are suppose to come in. basically, a command string could have a series of actions on a clone.

ie:
run:c:/program files/wow/wow.exe;load:joe.kcl

you might name it 'load joe' and have that command on machine-2. then from machine-1 you'd be able to do something like 'run machine-2: load joe' and a new instance of wow would run on machine 2, automatically add it to the clone list and then load the keymap(joe.kcl) for that clone (you would still have to do the login yourself... dancing a fine line here with macroing ;)

and maybe a few other things. haven't quite got there yet, but that's the intention.

re: mount latency
when you see the others mount, they should all mount at the same time (+/- about 5ms)... so watching the other instances, you should see that... BUT, on your main instance, they might seem to be behind a bit. the reason is latency.

the command to mount went direct and is very fast (your cpu load causing a bit of a delay, but nothing major)... BUT when the clone mounts, that info is sent up to the server from the clone then down to your main instance... that would be animation latency and is a bit of a pita. if you have a bad network connection, your clones could seem to run way ahead... when in reality they could be behind you and your main instance has not received that information yet.

watch your latency... as it increases, these effects will become more pronounced

Picked up the 3rd copy to spread the accounts over the 3 PCs tonight. Will give it a proper look tomorrow while my wife's out and I have some peace n quiet ;)

Anyone has i idea why at my system Strg, Shift and Alt are not broadcastet to the other windows?

One question to the Pass-Mouseclick-Option. Means that, if i click at the master client anywhere this click will be simulated at the same place at the other client? This would be great, because than i could create buttons on some places for example for healing and only the healer has no dummy entries there :) But this is not working on my system too!

The Ctrl key works fine, that's what I use for now. I'm sure Rob will get around to looking at alt and shift sometime soon:)

I'm not sure about the mouse click feature, haven't used it yet. I was thinking of an AOE wonderland group, but gave up on that idea. Maybe I'll revisit it later, the Honor Hold instances can be finished pretty quick with a pally tank and lots of aoe.

I tested out round robin with two Notepad windows, and it works perfect. For some reason it still isn't working with spells in WoW though. I'm running multiple windows on one machine. If I set a simple spell on my bar, pressing that key repeatedly will trigger both windows sometimes, but neither window consistantly (when the key is listed as round-robin).

As far as hotstrings, they're still not gettnig passed 100% either. I have verified that it is not the delay that is causing this, and my latency is fine. Sometimes only my main will cast the desired spell, and the others don't respond, so I have to press the button multiple times, which causes my main to recast the spell.

Has anyone else experienced either of these things?

i'll be looking into that tonight. the round-robin hotstrings i did not test and am not sure how that will go together (round-robin the strings instead of the keys?)

i'm also testing a fix for the extended keys. hopefully it will solve the issue.

i have also worked with a person that had the G15 keyboard. keyclone recognized and worked with it properly... (his wow had an issue with key bindings beyond keyclone).

if anyone has the x-keys extender pad and wouldn't mind working with me, i'd love to try and get that working.