What exactly are hotstrings for?

[ockhamsrazor]

As I understand it, keymaps allow you to convert one key stroke to another across running WoW instances. I haven't been able to figure out what hotstrings are for....

And let me say in advance, yes I searched for "hotstrings" and purused dozens of posts. Still no clue what exactly they accomplish.

Can someone please describe them and give me an example of why I would want to use them?



Thanks,

Matt

[sicsid]

Hotstrings are set up in keyclone. when a button is pushed the hotstring will run and basically do a command for you.

read up on the Leaderless, non focus thread. Ill post link to it in a sec.

Focusless, targetless, 'leaderless' setup.

ToonA:

2 --> LBAT
Ctrl-alt-] --> LBBT
Alt-Shift-] --> LBCT
Ctrl-Alt-Shift-] --> LBDT
Ctrl-] --> LBET

ToonB:

Ctrl-Shift-] --> LBAT
2 --> LBBT
Alt-Shift-] --> LBCT
Ctrl-Alt-Shift-] --> LBDT
Ctrl-] --> LBET

ToonC:

Ctrl-Shift-] --> LBAT
Ctrl-alt-] --> LBBT
2 --> LBCT
Ctrl-Alt-Shift-] --> LBDT
Ctrl-] --> LBET

ToonD:

Ctrl-Shift-] --> LBAT
Ctrl-alt-] --> LBBT
Alt-Shift-] --> LBCT
2 --> LBDT
Ctrl-] --> LBET

ToonE:

Ctrl-Shift-] --> LBAT
Ctrl-alt-] --> LBBT
Alt-Shift-] --> LBCT
Ctrl-Alt-Shift-] --> LBDT
2 --> LBET

Notice that the 2 goes down the list on each character.

Bound to ], ingame on each toon, you need the following macro:

/target [mod:ctrl,mod:shift,nomod:alt,target=ToonA]
[mod:ctrl,mod:alt,nomod:shift,target=ToonB]
[mod:alt,mod:shift,nomod:ctrl,target=ToonC]
[mod:ctrl,mod:alt,mod:shift,target=ToonD]
[mod:ctrl,nomod:alt,nomod:shift,target=ToonE]
/cast [target=targettarget,harm] Lightning Bolt
/targetlasttarget


Above is ripped from that thread. Basically pushing 2 on your keyboard will tell all the slaves to run the command. If the same button is pushed from a different slave, it will then run the commands to assist him as new 'main'. This set up is great for switching keyclone PiP and always having the new screen be the main and the slaves assist the new main. Its also great to do soloing on accts as you dont need to set up new macros for single play.

It took me a while to kinda wrap my head around it but now that i figured it out, i dont see why i never did it this way for the first 51 levels :P

[Moorea]

Can someone give a simple/minimal example of what keyclone's hotstring are for; and how to set one up. I don't get the more complex example above and I would like something minimal (even if contrived)


(I own keyclone but I couldn't figure out what this part of the feature set does... I'm not using it and only use DNP lists so far but feel I'm probably missing out on something)

[Solmaran]

You have a 3 box, a Tank a healer and a dps. You set up 3 keymaps in keyclone. On your tank you set up 1 -> StartAttack. On the healer you can set whichever key is bound to a macro that does something like bubble the tank to startattack. On the dps you set whatever key is bound to his attack macro to StartAttack.

Then when you hit the 1 key on your tank the healer bubbles him and the dps assists and starts attacking.

You could then set up a key on the tank called "HealMe". You can set that hotstring up on the healer to run whichever key is bound to the macro you have set up to heal the tank. On the dps you just don't set it at all.

Then when you hit the key on the tank for healing him it will cause a button push on the healer but not the dps.

[zanthor]

As I understand it, keymaps allow you to convert one key stroke to another across running WoW instances. I haven't been able to figure out what hotstrings are for....

And let me say in advance, yes I searched for "hotstrings" and purused dozens of posts. Still no clue what exactly they accomplish.

Can someone please describe them and give me an example of why I would want to use them?



Thanks,

Matt

If you understand keymaps, then you understand hotstrings.

Keeping in mind that a keymap lets you press G on client A and receive H on client B...

On client A's keymap file you have the hotstring
G -> PressHOnClientB

On Client B's keymap you have the hotstring
H -> PressHOnClientB

When you press H on client A the G gets converted to "PressHOnClientB" and sent to the other client which translates it back to an H.... now if you press G on client B nothing happens, but if you press H on client B, it converts to a hotstring "PressHOnClientB" which is received by client A and translated to a G...

[Saevio]

I had a hard time wrapping my head around hotstrings too, but once I understood what they actually were, it all fell into place.

Here's a very basic intro to hotstrings.
So here we have our two test characters, a priest and a mage. Now to get straight into it, let's say that when I press 1 (Fireball) on the mage, I want the Priest window to hit 0 (Smite), this can be done using hotstrings.

Mage


Priest


Step 1
Click Setup on Keyclone and click on Keymap editor in the side menu.


Step 2
Enter the ingame key for Fireball into the key field (which in this case is 1) and enter a hotstring into the hotstring field, this can be anything, for this example, let's enter test. After that's done, click add.


Step 3
Now click save to save the keymap as a file, for this, I'll name it A.


Step 4
Now click new at the top and repeat the step, entering the same name for the hotstring, ie. test, but this time using 0 as the key (0 is the ingame key for smite on our Priest).


Step 5
Now click save again, but name it something different, logically, I'll name this one B.


Step 6
Now that the hotstrings are set up, we need to tell keyclone which keymaps to use for each window, so click Ok to leave the keyclone setup panel and return to the main keyclone window.


Now in this example, the top WoW instance in the list is the Mage and the bottom one is the Priest, so right click on the top WoW in the list and click on Load keymap, then select A.kcl and hit OK. For the bottom one, do the same, but load B.kcl instead.


Step 7
Now switch back to WoW, specifically, the Mage window, make sure both the Mage and the Priest have an enemy target selected, then hit the 1 key on the Mage, the 0 key will be pressed on the Priest and they will both fire off their spells.


[s]Note: This behaviour will not be reversed, hitting 0 on the Priest will not hit 1 on the Mage, to do that, you will need to add in another hotstring.[/s]
Edit: Hitting 0 on the Priest will hit 1 on the mage.

Hope that helps someone

[Moorea]

Thanks a lot Araketh ! this should be stickied !

[Fluffy]

Thanks a lot Araketh ! this should be stickied !

... yes... thank you very much... i was totally missing steps 6 and 7 when trying to do the focus/leaderless setup... much appreciated!

[ockhamsrazor]

Thanks for the responses! That really clears things up for me also!

[keyclone]

instead of right-click/load-keymap... you can set the appropriate keymap to be auto-loaded by specifying it in the command definition