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If I have some time when I get home tonight I'll try and look into the mouse buttons 4 & 5 working as well as the right shift key.
For the lag problem you mentioned after 5-10 minutes, is this 5-10 minutes of use where you don't move the mouse onto one of the off-screens then when you do you get lag, which goes away for another 5-10 minutes after that? If so I think it has to do with the way Windows XP pages to disk and I have a potential solution for it that I want to try out. If I get time I'll add it into the next version and see if it works.
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Thanks Micah, if I get time I'll do some testing with it to see what is causing it and get back to you.
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Tried to fix the right shift bug and after several hours of searching there is no light at the end of the tunnel. In fact, the light that I thought I saw turned out to be the headlight of a fast approaching train.
As far as I can tell it's a windows bug. I am sending a perfect right-shift key to the OS and the OS is ignoring it more or less. I even tried to write a cheesy workaround hack and windows ignored that as well! I have posted on the win32 newsgroup to see if someone there can help me but I'm not hopeful at this point.
Edit: Got it fixed, turns out it is a Windows bug.
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New version updated in the first post of this thread. Right shift should now work and mouse buttons 4 & 5 *should* work (untested since I don't have a 5 button mouse). Let me know if buttons 4/5 work properly or not and if not what the symptoms are.
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Both mouse4 and mouse5 buttons work fine on my second computer, and the right-shift button is fixed as well.
Thank you, I love you! :)
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Micah,
I have tried your MultiBox as part of myself carefully getting into the multiboxing and testing the potential setups. I must say that I was delighted to find it work controlling my three test characters as intended, in a way that was very promising indeed, with some difficulties regarding the mouse.
Thank you for that!
My testing setup was two notebooks and one desktop with two displays. Notebook1 (1280x800), Notebook2 (1024x800), Desktop (1280x1024, 1280x1024) being the displays from left to right. I put Notebook1, Notebook2 and the Desktop next to each other from left to right in the drop down boxes in the MultiBox server window.
- I could move the mouse over to Notebook2 and use it normally. Thanks to your modifications, without any of the sickness inducing spinning experienced with Synergy. I could not, no matter what I did with the mouse, move it to Notebook1 on the far left.
- Getting the mouse from Notebook2 back to the desktop's display was a very frustrating ordeal at numerous times while it worked flawlessly at other times. I dont know more details about this one yet, but when I do I will supply them.
All in all, I hope to be able to use MultiBox instead of a cumbersome hardware input devices solution. Ideal for me would be having the mouse working for simple clicks - to taget a warlock AoE for example - or if that does not work out to have an option to disable mouse broadcasting and mouse movement to the other computers.
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Micah,
I've been using your software for 2 weeks or so and it has been working GREAT.
I just am getting around to registering for this site but just wanted to thank you for this really amazing software.
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Steph: I have a new version that works with horizontal dual-monitors. I use dual-monitors on one of my 5 computers as well so I added some code that handles it. If you have dual-vertical monitors it still doesn't work, though I could modify it if necessary.
When I get home tonight I'll try to remember to upload the new version with dual-monitors fixed.
Jah76de: Glad to hear it, thanks for letting me know it's working out for you. :D
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I just wanted to say a quick thanks to Micah for creating this very helpful software and Ellay for setting up this site. I've been dual-boxing for a couple weeks and have been really struggling to control both characters at the same time. Once I got MultiBox installed and configured and I got used to it, it made things SO much easier.
My wife may not be as appreciative as dual-boxing has re-awakened my desire to play WoW all the time. :lol:
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Micah,
this is my new desktop setup. I would love to have that new MultiBox version with the horizontal dual monitor fix :wink:
http://www.emerald-knights.com/guildhall/desktop2.jpg
Cheers, Steph.
