[WAR] Software Broadcasting Script

[Freddie]

Great, thanks for letting me know.

[SkelVA]

I've been experimenting with the different tools to try and get war dual-boxing on one computer to work.

Keyclone:
No luck at all. It would only send keys once I'd hit enter and was chatting. The author was very prompt in refunding my license and was very professional though.

Octopus:
Exact same as keyclone

HKN:
Since I was able to use the commands to change window focus, I was able to find some "success" but not really. The only way to send actions (other than while chatting) is to switch the window focus, put in a delay, send the key, switch the window back, delay and then send the key again. It's easy to just switch and send to another window, but sending to both windows in any kind of reasonable manner seems impossible.

It looks to me like the only real option at this point is a multiple computer solution, or perhaps some sort of virtualization solution. Needless to say, that really sucks.

[Sanctume]

So if I only run 1 WAR.exe on each computer, I only need HKN and don't need AHK anymore?

[Freddie]

So if I only run 1 WAR.exe on each computer, I only need HKN and don't need AHK anymore?

HotkeyNet works fine with one Warhammer per PC. It only gets tricky with multiple Warhammers on one PC.

Be sure to use SendWin in your script.

[Freddie]

I finally tested Warhammer with HotkeyNet this morning. Here's what I found.

1. HotkeyNet can send keystrokes to Warhammer when it's in the background with SendWinX. (This is a new experimental send mode that was added to the program a few weeks ago.)

2. This probably means you can play multiple Warhammers on one PC with SendWinX. However I only have one Warhammer account, so I had to test with one Warhammer and one Dark Age of Camelot.

3. I tested only with XP.

4. SendWinX is sensitive to certain conditions that I haven't figured out yet. Sometimes it doesn't work in the background, but if I restart HotkeyNet and click on windows, I can get it to work. Once it starts working, it seems to work indefinitely. As long as its working, it seems to work perfectly.

5. I'm using an 8800GTS-512. I mention this because SendWinX will probably work differently with different video cards. It may not work at all with some cards.

If anyone wants to test SendWinX with multiple Warhammers, that would be very helpful.

[Sanctume]

I finally tested Warhammer with HotkeyNet this morning. Here's what I found.

1. HotkeyNet can send keystrokes to Warhammer when it's in the background with SendWinX. (This is a new experimental send mode that was added to the program a few weeks ago.)

2. This probably means you can play multiple Warhammers on one PC with SendWinX. However I only have one Warhammer account, so I had to test with one Warhammer and one Dark Age of Camelot.

3. I tested only with XP.

4. SendWinX is sensitive to certain conditions that I haven't figured out yet. Sometimes it doesn't work in the background, but if I restart HotkeyNet and click on windows, I can get it to work. Once it starts working, it seems to work indefinitely. As long as its working, it seems to work perfectly.

5. I'm using an 8800GTS-512. I mention this because SendWinX will probably work differently with different video cards. It may not work at all with some cards.

If anyone wants to test SendWinX with multiple Warhammers, that would be very helpful.

I will definitely try it as I have 2 War Open Beta account, on 2 computers.
I'm running 1x 7800 GT, and the other is SLI 2x Go 7950 GTX.

I assume the latest download can be gotten from your site?
I'll do that after work today.

[Freddie]

Great, thanks. Download here:

Download HotkeyNet

Let me give you a simple script for testing. You need one hotkey to rename your Warhammer windows so HotkeyNet can tell them apart, a second hotkey to test whether you can send keystrokes, and a third hotkey to test whether movement keys work (they are more complicated than regular keystrokes).

<Hotkey Ctrl R>  // PRESS CTRL R TO RENAME WARHAMMER WINDOWS
<RenameWin Warhammer War1>
<RenameWin Warhammer War2>

<Hotkey F1>     // PRESS F1 TO SEND B TO BOTH WARHAMMERS -- 
<SendWinX War1> // SHOULD TOGGLE BOOK
<Key B>
<SendWinX War2>
<Key B>
<Restore>

<Hotkey F2>      // PRESS F2 TO SEND  W TO BOTH WARHAMMERS -- 
<SendWinX War1>  // SHOULD MAKE TOONS MOVE FORWARD
<KeyDown W>
<SendWinX War2>
<KeyDown W>
<Restore>
<HotkeyUp  F2>
<SendWinX War1>
<KeyUp W>
<SendWinX War2>
<KeyUp W>
<Restore>

[Bachner]

That sounds great. I'm running some ATI cards and will have to try that out tonight or tomorrow.

[Sanctume]

Download HotkeyNet[/url]

Let me give you a simple script for testing. You need one hotkey to rename your Warhammer windows so HotkeyNet can tell them apart, a second hotkey to test whether you can send keystrokes, and a third hotkey to test whether movement keys work (they are more complicated than regular keystrokes).

<Hotkey Ctrl R>  // PRESS CTRL R TO RENAME WARHAMMER WINDOWS
<RenameWin Warhammer War1>
<RenameWin Warhammer War2>

<Hotkey F1>     // PRESS F1 TO SEND B TO BOTH WARHAMMERS -- 
<SendWinX War1> // SHOULD TOGGLE BOOK
<Key B>
<SendWinX War2>
<Key B>
<Restore>

<Hotkey F2>      // PRESS F2 TO SEND  W TO BOTH WARHAMMERS -- 
<SendWinX War1>  // SHOULD MAKE TOONS MOVE FORWARD
<KeyDown W>
<SendWinX War2>
<KeyDown W>
<Restore>
<HotkeyUp  F2>
<SendWinX War1>
<KeyUp W>
<SendWinX War2>
<KeyUp W>
<Restore>

Ok I installed 1 pc as Server, and the 2nd pc as client using current HKN.

I copied the above as script.txt and loaded it on each machine.

I press Ctrl+R on server machine, and got:
From this pc: <RenameWin Warhammer War1><RenameWin Warhammer War2>
<RenameWin Warhammer War1> completed: Window found. Target set to 0xE03BC "Warhammer: Age of Reckoning, Copyright 2001-2008 ". Window renamed "War1"
<RenameWin Warhammer War2> failed: Could not find window "Warhammer"


I press Ctrl+R on client machine and got the same thing.

I then updated script.txt on server machine to have this line:
<RenameWin Warhammer War1>

Now client machine has a War2 window.

I press F1 and only server machine opens the bag. client 2 dont do anything.

[Freddie]

Oh, sorry, we had a misunderstanding. That script is written for two Warhammers on a single PC. That's why the script doesn't work.

The only thing that needs to be tested here is sending to Warhammer when it's in the background. That means a Warhammer window that's covered by another Warhammer window. You need two or more Warhammers on a single PC for that.

There's no need to test individual Warhammers on separate machines. That works fine.

If you want to help test this, you need to run both your accounts on a single PC. If you don't want to do that, no problem. Thanks for the time you spent on this.