Octopus, an oldie but goodie. Need some input.

[Ghallo]

Ugh - you could set <enter> as your broadcast pause toggle (and then map it to itself so it does a pass-through>

Just a thought.

Here are some of the features I was thinking about:

1. Profile Creation Wizard (does what the current tool does, just creates the XML based on presets and a friendly wizard).
2. Profile Copy button (currently you need to manually change settings between profiles).
3. Allow keys to be "translated" on a per client basis. All of the other multiplexers do this. EG: "Shift-X" on this client becomes "1" on the other client.
4. This is the big one. Allow "regions" to be defined for the master window that EITHER became 1 click in another window offset (without keypress) OR translated into a single keypress which would then be broadcast per #3 (the idea here is I am playing my warrior, I click on the "make slave priest heal me" region and the priest receives a "Shift-Alt-2" keypress which causes the priest to cast a heal on the warrior.

[Ughmahedhurtz]

Ugh - you could set <enter> as your broadcast pause toggle (and then map it to itself so it does a pass-through>

Just a thought.

OK, but what happens when you type /r <message>? What if you're doing /1 "LOL NOOBS!" or /2 "WTB Titansteel Guardian x5 PST any of us." Those situations mean you have to have / or enter or backspace/reply or whatever all toggle chat mode on and then enter or escape toggle chat mode off, which isn't currently possible. :P Too easy to get out of sync.

[jddc78]

I 5 box with it as well. Fef, the same thing happened to me. Within a week of installing it someone hacked one of my accounts and I had to call to get it back. Leads me to think that the location we may have got it from is doing something fishy. But other than that isolated moment it has done everything I've needed it to do.

There are a few things that maybe I just don't know how to do that I would like.

1) Run in different resolutions. Currently if I change any of the resolutions on my clients it changes for all. I only run off of one WoW installation folder -> so using 2 different folders may take care of that for me.
2) Mouse broadcasting for AoE. Once again something that it may be able to do and I just don't know how.

If you guys know how to set that up I'd love to hear it!

[Ghallo]

I 5 box with it as well. Fef, the same thing happened to me. Within a week of installing it someone hacked one of my accounts and I had to call to get it back. Leads me to think that the location we may have got it from is doing something fishy. But other than that isolated moment it has done everything I've needed it to do.

There are a few things that maybe I just don't know how to do that I would like.

1) Run in different resolutions. Currently if I change any of the resolutions on my clients it changes for all. I only run off of one WoW installation folder -> so using 2 different folders may take care of that for me.
2) Mouse broadcasting for AoE. Once again something that it may be able to do and I just don't know how.

If you guys know how to set that up I'd love to hear it!

1) I currently run 1 client at 1920x1200 and the other 4 at 960x600. Works fine. Just go into the "Maximizer" setup and define the screen sizes - I'd recommend naming them things like "TopLeftx960x600" etc and then in the Profile manager you assign that toon to that maximizer. I can send screenshots tonight.
2) All you have to do is bind a key to "mouse broadcast" and then check the box on each client for "receives broadcast clicks" - then you can have them AOE with a single mouse click.

[Ughmahedhurtz]

1) Run in different resolutions. Currently if I change any of the resolutions on my clients it changes for all. I only run off of one WoW installation folder -> so using 2 different folders may take care of that for me.

Try looking up the symlinked folder (or NTFS junction points) methods for running multiple wow folders with a single base install. I use the junction point method and aside from a few minutes of extra work on patch days, it works like a champ.

2) Mouse broadcasting for AoE. Once again something that it may be able to do and I just don't know how.

If you guys know how to set that up I'd love to hear it!

If you want to setup mouse cursor broadcasting where the _cursor_ moves on all clients, I can't help ya. If you just want click broadcasting for casting Blizzard/Treants/Flamestrike/bombs/etc., just enable it and add your mouse keys that you want to use to the server-->Clicks list. Assuming you're using 1.35 or later, it should work fine. If you need a process for setting it up, let me know. I've been meaning to set up a click broadcast section in my tutorial but just haven't gotten around to it.

[edit] Caveat Emptor: you need to have all your wows set to the same UI scale and video mode aspect ratio for the clicks to be accurate. Check out my post here for the basic stuff to check if you're having problems with mouse clicking not being accurate in Octopus.

http://www.dual-boxing.com/showthread.php?p=77201

[Pocalypse]

OK, but what happens when you type /r <message>? What if you're doing /1 "LOL NOOBS!" or /2 "WTB Titansteel Guardian x5 PST any of us." Those situations mean you have to have / or enter or backspace/reply or whatever all toggle chat mode on and then enter or escape toggle chat mode off, which isn't currently possible. :P Too easy to get out of sync.

HKN (as it is currrently) can support that, and it works very well.

Link

[Rhod]

I've used Octopus for a couple years now. I'm very comfortable with it and best of all, it works with my Windows 7 64-Bit "Server" Machine and my other 32-bit Windows XP "client" machines without a hitch. (Minus the little UAC junk you have to do).

One thing I would like to see is a "quick" profile change setting. I have pretty unique keybinds which are centered around being able to play my other "boxed" toons on my main computer solo without changing a bunch of keybindings. I have one profile for "normal" boxing and another for "mounted" combat. It would be cool if I could hit a quickkey and change my profile instead of through the dropdown menu.

[Thulos]

Been using it for a year and a half 5 boxing across two computers. There are two bugs I get from time to time that are annoying. The first is every once in a while a key get stuck, but its usually pretty easy to fix. Its not so annoying unless it is the Control key and then the d key toggles sound on and off for a few seconds until I get it unstuck. The second bug is octopus sometimes crashes when it loads on bootup.

[Ughmahedhurtz]

The second bug is octopus sometimes crashes when it loads on bootup.

That's not an octopus bug -- it's a bug in the way DLLs load in .NET Framework. I've seen it with other .NET start-on-boot apps.

[Ghallo]

Ok, so I have a build of Octopus (I'm calling it 1.3.8b until I make some REAL changes)

Done:

• Profile Copy button (currently you need to manually change settings between profiles).

Need:

• Somewhere to host the files.
• Someone to help test this.

To Do:

• Profile Creation Wizard (does what the current tool does, just creates the XML based on presets and a friendly wizard).
• Allow keys to be "translated" on a per client basis. All of the other multiplexers do this. EG: "Shift-X" on this client becomes "1" on the other client.
• This is the big one. Allow "regions" to be defined for the master window that EITHER became 1 click in another window offset (without keypress) OR translated into a single keypress which would then be broadcast per #3 (the idea here is I am playing my warrior, I click on the "make slave priest heal me" region and the priest receives a "Shift-Alt-2" keypress which causes the priest to cast a heal on the warrior.
• (zanthor) Handle "chat functions to pause broadcasting" - "r", "/" and "Enter" to trigger the pause and "Enter" or "Escape" to release the pause (I'll make this an option under "toggles" - someone suggest a button title?
• (Rhod,WaffleFrie) Quick Profile Switch
  
  • Need more information here - how do you see this working? Think about how you'd want the menu to look and work with the rest of Octopus. Do you mean just the KeyList/Whitelist/Blacklist? How would the profile be triggered? If you have the time - draw something up in msPaint or something, a picture is worth a ton!
• Round Robin (is this needed/wanted? I've never really used this, but I guess it could be possible to include).
• (WaffleFrie) Not recognizing "a game with a launcher" - do you mean for maximizer? I've never played around with WoW through the launcher so I'm not sure.