[Addon] Jamba - An assistant for multiboxers. Old Thread

[Taborious]

Jafula,

I understand that jamba cant pass macros but my suggestion isnt passing macros. The person would have to setup the macros on the healers toon. I used healing to demonstrate may idea, but, my solution isnt just healing its passing information to another toon on the team to execute a macro based on information being passed.

So, instead of "heal Jonboy left" it could be something like "** Jonboy left"(** denoting a click event message, instead of the word heal). simply meaning that some member of the team left clicked on Jonboy. Now what happens on the listener that receives that message is all dependent on how the person has coded the macro. One could write the macro to heal, but, could write it to execute ANY valid macro, change focus, follow, mount, etc... Jamba would only pass the information to the shared channel, and have someway to allow a toon to listen for requests from the channel. Within Jamba, on a new config page "Jamba Listen" or whatever simply have 3 text windows, one assigned to "left", one assigned to "middle" and one to "right" in the textbox someone could enter the macro name to execute when its received. Again, the person would have to write said macro though, jamba would only pass "triggers"

If this is just not something you want jamba to do I fully understand and will drop the subject, just thought i'd elaborate on my idea since I used it in a touchie context of healing.

[Jafula]

Jafula,
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passing information to another toon on the team to execute a macro based on information being passed.

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enter the macro name to execute when its received. Again, the person would have to write said macro though, jamba would only pass "triggers"

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If this is just not something you want jamba to do I fully understand and will drop the subject, just thought i'd elaborate on my idea since I used it in a touchie context of healing.

It's not that I don't like your idea, its the fact that it cannot be implemented. Blizzard don't let addons cast spells, click macros, move, etc.

Even if Jamba passed a message, Jamba cannot do anything with the message. You still need to press a key/click for a macro, spell, move to work.

[Mukade]

What you're asking for is impossible.

If addons could trigger macros, people could use them for automation. They can already read the state of procs, buffs/debuffs and cooldowns, so if they could trigger macros too, then they could do all of your casting for you.

There are already unit frames that work fine while multiboxing. There is already plenty of multiboxing software that can handle remote click casting.