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

[Rms]

Thanks for implementing the fixes!

[delafoo]

I've been having trouble with Jamba for a while, since before update 3.1

Switching master's seems to be my main problem. All jamba's for all my toons are set the same,

change main... Jamba, Switch Tab, Set Focus To Master When Changing Master

is selected and Display Switch messages is selected.

This seems to be the ONLY way Jamba will switch my masters, after about a 1-3 minute delay.

I have noticed, however, that selecting the desired master unter the Team Tab and pushing it to

the other toons seems to be almost instant.

Is there a macro or coding that can be done to do this (select from the dropdown menu and push)?

Believe me, I've tried almost every other method and macro given by Jafula and only the focus method has been working.

My toons are: Vantica, Ventica, Vintica, Vontica, Vyntica, Assigned to switch screen and master from F8-F12 Accordingly.

Thanks in advance for responses.

[Mikey]

I've been having trouble with Jamba for a while, since before update 3.1

Switching master's seems to be my main problem. All jamba's for all my toons are set the same,

change main... Jamba, Switch Tab, Set Focus To Master When Changing Master

is selected and Display Switch messages is selected.

This seems to be the ONLY way Jamba will switch my masters, after about a 1-3 minute delay.

I have noticed, however, that selecting the desired master unter the Team Tab and pushing it to

the other toons seems to be almost instant.

Is there a macro or coding that can be done to do this (select from the dropdown menu and push)?

Believe me, I've tried almost every other method and macro given by Jafula and only the focus method has been working.

My toons are: Vantica, Ventica, Vintica, Vontica, Vyntica, Assigned to switch screen and master from F8-F12 Accordingly.

Thanks in advance for responses.

Been getting this problem too.

I used to get a ton of "Item is not ready" and "Ability is not ready" messages because I had trinkets/etc. macro'd into my attacks and it used to create a line of spam that would go on for minutes on end after a few fights.

I turned off one of the reporting options to see if the "setmeasmaster" action is getting "queued" and is taking awhile before it gets initiated. I don't know if it's a placebo effect or not but since turning it off it's been much better.

[delafoo]

I hope something happens with it... I tried both of the macro methods for boxing, spent probably about 18+ hours per method trying to set them up to no avail...

I might resort to a reinstall of WoW and Jamba.

[delafoo]

I hope something happens with it... I tried both of the macro methods for boxing, spent probably about 18+ hours per method trying to set them up to no avail...

I might resort to a reinstall of WoW and Jamba.

Not finding the info here, I found my problem was my switch from pve to pvp. By selecting the "on focus change, set master to focus" option ONLY fixed it for me.

While it's not implicitly stated on the jamba site, it is the only option not listed as PVE (but works well for pve too ) yay.

Can't wait till Jafula comes back!

[Maxion]

I hope something happens with it... I tried both of the macro methods for boxing, spent probably about 18+ hours per method trying to set them up to no avail...

I might resort to a reinstall of WoW and Jamba.

Not finding the info here, I found my problem was my switch from pve to pvp. By selecting the "on focus change, set master to focus" option ONLY fixed it for me.

While it's not implicitly stated on the jamba site, it is the only option not listed as PVE (but works well for pve too ) yay.

Can't wait till Jafula comes back!

This is because having the addon change your focus for you doesn't work in combat.

I have my master/focus change macros set up so that jamba doesnt have to do anything with that, my macros change my focus, and the character becoming the main/focus does a /jamba setmeasmaster all

[Jafula]

I'm back from my holiday now. Thanks very much to all those that fixed up Jamba's problems while I was away. Special thanks to DigitalSorceress for her efforts. I have taken her fan update and released it as 0.4e; so if you have downloaded her fan update, then there is no need to download 0.4e as it is the same.

[Tasty]

DigitalSorceress[/url] for her efforts. I have taken her fan update and released it as 0.4e; so if you have downloaded her fan update, then there is no need to download 0.4e as it is the same.

Welcome back, hope you had an awesome holiday

[Jafula]

Hi Jafula,

thanks for this awsome addon. Using it for about a week now and cant imagine to play ever without it.
I found another addon, which combined to jamba would rock. I'm talking about JasonQuest. The author stopped developing last november. So it might be possible to use his code.
Just to mirror the toons quests to the booster and keep them tracked.

Thanks!

/target Jafula
/bow

A few folks have asked for this functionality. It's defintiely something I would like to do; but unfortunately there are a lot of other things to do right now. It's on the todo list. Have you look for other addons that do the same thing as JasonQuest?

With Jamba every toon in your team should have the exact same settings as every other toon.

Does the push to characters button only push that one page, or all settings? It appears to push just the current settings page, which is expected behavior. I'd like, though, a "push all settings from all pages" button, to make sure all settings are perfectly matched.

As for the health or XP being blank on other party members, I've noticed that as well, but it fixes itself after the party member takes damage or gets XP.

I see a lot of requests here for making Jamba into unit frames, but I'd hope you can avoid the temptation. Let people use RAID leader add-ons, there are plenty of man hours invested in those. Hopefully you can stay focused on the pieces there aren't other mods for, so there's time to add the features that really don't exist anywhere else.

One big example from another thread today is party inventory management:

Important:
- leader can see "party" bag
- allow leader to dump contents of own bag to party member bags
- allow leader to get contents of party member bag back to own bag
- from the leader, trade items from toon to toon
- from the leader, tell a toon to equip an item

Nice to have:
- class/usability coloring (click party toon icon, color items in bag red if out of class or level)
- hook into PAWN and show if any items in bags represent an upgrade for an equipment slot on a party member (outline upgrades in gold)
- in the upgrade mode, show the overall PAWN score for each toon, so you know which one should get the upgrade

This last item would really reduce time consuming equipment decisions when leveling a mixed team. After configuring PAWN with the stats weights, one will see easily if there are drops that are upgrades.

Thank you, Jafula, for an extraordinarily useful add on.

Push to characters only works for the current page. Version 0.5 will have a "push all" ability. I have no intention of doing any sort of unit frame work.

I like your party inventory management ideas; some of which are new to me. I'll see if I can fit some into version 0.5.

When I'm in a fight, I'm usually bashing my DPS button at the rate of about 4 or 5 times per second.

However, I'm noticing that on my main toon, for literally minutes after the fight has finished, i'm seeing messages like this in white, in the main chat box on my main

ToonName: item is not ready yet
ToonName: spell is not ready yet
ToonName: spell is not ready yet
ToonName: spell is not ready yet
ToonName: I can't do that yet
ToonName: spell is not ready yet
ToonName: item is not ready yet
ToonName: spell is not ready yet
ToonName: spell is not ready yet
...
and so on, where "ToonName" is the name of one of my slaves.

I unchecked the "forward errors" and "forward warnings" in Jamba-comms, and pushed to all toons, but I'm still seeing these messages (which must use a fair amount of bandwidth - perhaps it explains the times I've had about a 30-second delay when switching master?).

While writing this post, I just realised that I only ever see the name of one of my 4 slaves in the above messages, so maybe it's just a setting on that one toon - can you suggest what I need to check? Is it those Jamba-comms settings I mentioned above?

The option is in Jamba-Talk. You need to untick "Forward UI Errors" and "Forward UI Information" in order to stop those messages (as you have done). Make sure all characters have these settings unchecked.

Why are both of these options combined into one configuration checkbox: accept all quests from questgivers and accept all shared quests. Is it possible to separate out this functionality? I have a nice macro to accept the shared quests so I can turn this off, but it would be nice to have it accept shares automatically.

Also, it is very unintuitive to figure out which boxes to uncheck to stop the error/warning spam from all toons in the chat window. I unchecked probably 6 boxes through all the different options panes before getting it to stop. I really have no idea what all those things do. Multiboxer puts those errors in the team frame which is very nice.

Thanks,
-K

The quest functionality is getting an overhaul; I'll see if I can seperate out the accept all from quest givers and the accept from share.

In Jamba-Talk, you need to untick "Forward UI Errors" and "Forward UI Information" to stop the spam. Version 0.5 will have these options off by default and if you do turn them on, you will be able to decide which messages get forwarded.

[Jafula]

Now for the next logical question... due to the changes to group order, is there a way to change Jamba for slaves to always accept invites in a particular order?

Well, my guess is that since it was never really an issue before (as the order was predetermined by some strange hudu as I recall), I'm betting that they're just iterated trough in whatever order the team members are in the table.

It seems logical that some kind of sort order / weight / organization could be added and a small config page for managing it would be in the realm of the do-able.

I have already added this functionality into 0.5; you can see the up/down buttons in the screenshot below.