Hotkeynet comming back?

[Freddie]

Thanks for testing. We'll figure it out if we keep investigating. I'm puzzled too. But with software there's always some simple mechanical explanation, even if it's not obvious at the beginning.

Please can you clarify your answer to one of my questions. You said Alt-4 casts reactive heal. I don't play EQ2 so I don't know what that does exactly. I'm trying to rule out the possibility that the in-game action is affecting this. Does reactive heal change focus? Does it cause a window to appear? If you haven't already, could you try the same exact thing except with different in-game actions (as different as possible from reactive heal) and see if the same problem occurs, and let me know?

Moving on, two new things.

(1) Question. When you pressed the hotkey twice in a row, did the foreground window change in between for any reason?

(2) Suggestion. Try changing the hotkey so it types LAlt only once like this:

<hotkey F6>
<SendPC #.#.#.#>
    <SendWin EQ2>
        <KeyDown LAlt>
        <Wait 100>
        <Text 4>
        <wait 100>
        <Text 1>
        <wait 100>
        <Text 2>
        <wait 100>
        <KeyUp LAlt>

[kandore]

Ah ha, it doesn't like the nested <keydown alt> action <keyup alt> wait <keydown alt> action <keyup alt> etc. It worked with your code that had it hold down Alt, perform all the actions, and then let it up at the end. I'm going to test now if it will let me use that method, but also switch to Ctrl since some of my other macros use alt hotkeys followed by ctrl ones.

To answer your other questions, my second computer that is receiving the commands only has EQ2 in the foreground, so my focus never changes. Healing in eq2 is similar to other games (I think) in that it doesn't open any windows or change my target. I have the same problem whether I start with my heal or not. Basically I have my second toon target my main toon and cast through him at all times. If it's a heal or beneficial spell it automatically goes on my main toon, and if it's an attack it goes on my main toon's target due to the implied target set up. My window never flickers or anything like that.

Okay...off to test more once I get my toons to a safe spot.

[kandore]

I played with this a bit more and it looks like using <KeyDown LAlt> all of my alt actions and then <KeyUp LAlt> works, but only if it's the only command being executed by that hotkey. I tested this out and the following code works fine

<hotkey F6>
<sendpc ip removed for post>
<sendwin EQ2>
<KeyDown LAlt>
<wait 100>
<Text 8>
<wait 1000>
<Text 9>
<wait 100>
<KeyUp LAlt>

But this code does not (I added in <Text 1> which just puts me into autoattack mode. I tried other actions and they had the same result)

<hotkey F6>
<sendpc ip removed for post>
<sendwin EQ2>
<Text 1>
<wait 100>
<KeyDown LAlt>
<wait 100>
<Text 8>
<wait 1000>
<Text 9>
<wait 100>
<KeyUp LAlt>

[Freddie]

Thanks. When you say the second hotkey in your previous post didn't work, do you mean that EQ2 received 1, 8, 9 instead of 1, LAlt-8, LAlt-9?

[kandore]

Yup, that's what I mean. It looked like it received the correct keystrokes according to Hotkeynet on my other computer, but in game only the numbers were pressed without LAlt.

[Freddie]

I loaded that second definition into HotkeyNet 117 and tried it with Dark Age of Camelot, and it worked properly, so this may have something to do with EQ2. I should have asked you earlier -- which build of HotkeyNet are you using?

Let's try something else. Could you test this definition? It has a SendWin before every KeyDown:

<Hotkey F6>
<SendPC local>
<SendWin EQ2>
<KeyDown LAlt>
<Wait 100>
<Text 1>
<wait 100>
<KeyUp LAlt>
<Wait 1000>
<SendWin EQ2>
<KeyDown LAlt>
<Wait 100>
<Text 8>
<Wait 100>
<KeyUp LAlt>
<Wait 1000>
<SendWin EQ2>
<KeyDown LAlt>
<Wait 100>
<Text 9>
<Wait 100>
<KeyUp LAlt>
<Wait 100>

[Schizo]

Hi I have a question that I have not seen the answer for yet. maybe it allready has it in here and if it does I apologize. Is there any special configuration to tell it where to load wow from. I run two copies of wow on the same system. the folders are different names. Called wow1 and wow2 respectfully. where in the text file would you place this. Forgive my newness to it.

PS I really so far like the program for its simplicity. It seems like it will be able to do what i need without the bloat of some. Thanks for the work you have put into it.

[Warchamp7]

I download Hotketnet and 2 hours later theres a new release lol

Great work with this program Freddie

[Freddie]

Is there any special configuration to tell it where to load wow from. I run two copies of wow on the same system. the folders are different names. Called wow1 and wow2 respectfully. where in the text file would you place this. Forgive my newness to it.

There are a lot of ways to do this. I just wrote a script to do it a pretty easy way and noticed a bug. Let me fix the bug and upload a new build (to annoy Warchamp! ) and then I'll answer this.

PS I really so far like the program for its simplicity. It seems like it will be able to do what i need without the bloat of some. Thanks for the work you have put into it.

Glad to hear it! Thanks. And you're welcome.

[Freddie]

I download Hotketnet and 2 hours later theres a new release lol

Great work with this program Freddie

Watch out for that new build unless you have a high tolerance for pain -- it's "experimental" meaning it has a lot of new code in it that might set your PC on fire.

Thanks for the kind words.