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

[Akima]

I found another thing that isn't a bug, but I wanted to know if there was a way to turn off it's messages.

Here's the situation: last night I modified my setup to use the command to switch the master combined to my key to change screens (pip in keyclone). that way when i make toon no3 my main screen, he becomes the master and party leader. I added a keybind to the set focus and that works great, so far so good.

Now, everytime I change screens, I'll get a message in my chat window from each new slave saying that the master has changed and to press my keybind to reset the focus properly. I understand it's use, but is there a way to turn off those messages? Or maybe just make it a single message in the middle of the screen similar to when a slave breaks follow or gets attacked? It's minor, and great the first few times, but once you get used to always hitting your keybind for resetting the focus, those messages feel unecessary.

Thanks!

[skarlot]

Hey I just gave this a go .. good job... this is what a multi boxing addon should be

I really like the ability to push the abandon quests but for completing or selecting quests I find Turnin has a few features Jamba might benefit from.. namely
- simply clicking a yellow ? questgiver will churn through all complete quests, stopping at reward selection...
- it churns through gossip text as well
- you hold shift to stop this behaviour in turnin...
the problem with turnin is when a quest giver has some unwanted gossip it will try that path first rather than completed quests... which seems illogical, because gossip text can lead to a deadend where you need to shut the dialog. Clicking yelllow ? on each character caters for most quests and is a tad faster than pushing all quest choices from the master. But this addon is really great anyway.

The second thing is Jamba slaves send some incorrect messages, such as Accepted such and such quest, when the master has accepted a different quest... but hadn't pushed it on at all... not sure quite what is triggering it.... think it happened on a couple of different occasions actually.

And last, just a request... an option to supress both the loot destroy confirmation dialog for all loot type and especially that one which makes you type DELETE... :love: if thats even possible...

[Jafula]

This thread is huge but hopefully you will see this. Anyway these are the changes that are needed to make it work in the Beta. I will try to keep it updated.

Thank you so much for doing this. It's great. I'm assuming these changes will in be the patch (pre wotlk), so I'll be having a play on the PTRs soon.

[Jafula]

I want to start by saying a big thank you for this wonderful mod. There's a few things I had to manually click on each screen (flight paths, quest pickup and turn-in, accepting shared quests, accepting rez, etc.) and I love how those are automatic now. I'm not done converting my setup to fully use Jamba's abilities, but I'm doing it one step at a time (leveling is more fun so I tend to always put aside making changes to my setup :whistling: ).

One minor detail I noticed, is that if I have my slaves on follow, then open the flight master on all toons, and pick a destination with my master, they will all go on their way and that works great, but I'll get the error messages on my master screen about how my slaves have broke follow (the "help! I'm no longer following you!" message). Like I said, very minor, but I figured I'd say it anyway and let you decide the priority on it.

Keep up the awesome work! :thumbsup:

Once step at a time is the way I go as well. I'm the oppposite to you, more addon coding than levelling . I'm glad you like Jamba. You complaint is something I could fix reasonably easily (I just ignore it and go make a coffee), so I'll try and squeeze it in for you. More awesome work on its way... (and bug fixes!)

[Jafula]

And I'm not sure if this is the right place to ask, but I currently (with my dualboxing setup) use a /target focus setup for my macros (I'm going to try using this mod soon ), I was wondering if someone can give me an in-depth tutorial (that makes sense) on how I can make my alt able to run by herself. Currently the macros target my mains target, so if I'm not also playing my main, I can't do anything, also, when my main dies, my alt can't do ANYTHING.

Yes, I can, just not in this post. I'm slowly updating the documentation on my website. I'll be releasing Jamba-Target (0.3) this weekend, so I'll make sure there is a newbie setup guide for using focus for master, changing master during combat and soloing with said toons. There are a lot of ways you can do this, but I'm going to keep it simple and focus on focus for master and macros setup for solo/multi-boxer play which suit Jamba-Target. I'll post here when its done (it should be out with 0.3).

[Jafula]

[quote='Dragonshadow',index.php?page=Thread&postID= 132942#post132942]Otherwise I'll have to figure out how to broadcast mouse co-ords, figure out camera angles, and then bind a key to TURNORACTION and broadcast that key. Oi.
Blizz loves us so much so that they won't help us one bit.[/quote]You'll probably have to figure this one out. I believe Ughmahedhurtz has put an [url='http://www.dual-boxing.com/wiki/index.php/Octopus_Tutorial']Octopus tutorial[/url] on the wiki that might help others (I know you're using hotkeynet, but the Octopus author just posted in this thread and it's nice to give folk that contribute to the scene props, even if they are from a country that always beats my home country in cricket. :P )

You'll need to use /script SetView(2) or something to make all your toons have a similar camera angle (I haven't done it on my setup yet). zanthor posted a great post about the focus stuff in the New Multi-Boxers and Support forum. You should go bump it; I've already bumped it...

[Jafula]

Now, everytime I change screens, I'll get a message in my chat window from each new slave saying that the master has changed and to press my keybind to reset the focus properly. I understand it's use, but is there a way to turn off those messages? Or maybe just make it a single message in the middle of the screen similar to when a slave breaks follow or gets attacked? It's minor, and great the first few times, but once you get used to always hitting your keybind for resetting the focus, those messages feel unecessary.

Hey, someone actually uses that (when it doesn't work in combat). Cool. I won't remove it from the addon then. I'll add an option to allow you to switch those messages off.

[Jafula]

Turnin[/url] has a few features Jamba might benefit from.. namely
- simply clicking a yellow ? questgiver will churn through all complete quests, stopping at reward selection...
- it churns through gossip text as well
- you hold shift to stop this behaviour in turnin...
the problem with turnin is when a quest giver has some unwanted gossip it will try that path first rather than completed quests... which seems illogical, because gossip text can lead to a deadend where you need to shut the dialog. Clicking yelllow ? on each character caters for most quests and is a tad faster than pushing all quest choices from the master. But this addon is really great anyway.

The second thing is Jamba slaves send some incorrect messages, such as Accepted such and such quest, when the master has accepted a different quest... but hadn't pushed it on at all... not sure quite what is triggering it.... think it happened on a couple of different occasions actually.

And last, just a request... an option to supress both the loot destroy confirmation dialog for all loot type and especially that one which makes you type DELETE... :love: if thats even possible...

Thanks! I'll look at turnin. I've had few requests for tweaks to Jamba-Quest and a churn mode wouldn't be too hard. I think I might have the same problem regarding the unwanted gossip, but until I try, I won't know for sure.

I believe suprious accepted quest messages get sent if you have /script AcceptQuest() in a "big button" macro. If anyone can actually consistently reproduce these additional accept quest messages, could you let me know (post here or PM me)?

You destroy loot!? ;( I'll have to investigate the API some more, not sure whether I can do that or not.

I'm looking forward to the next multi-boxing software marvel you come up with.

[Jafula]

A quick look at the future team gui for Jamba.



This should be released by the end of the weekend along with Jamba-Target for you all to have a play.

Edit: This is not a standard "secure" unit frames display (i.e your toons do not have to be in a party/raid for it to operate). I could easily modify this to show toon health instead and get health updates directly from the toons. I guess this might be useful for PVP in battlegrounds where you group gets split up into different parties (I don't PVP, but I think I've read that's the case). I haven't done this, because a) no ones asked and b) if someone does ask, do they want mana/rage/energy display as well?

What do you think? Any comments?

[Dragonshadow]

A quick look at the future team gui for Jamba.



This should be released by the end of the weekend along with Jamba-Target for you all to have a play.

Edit: This is not a standard "secure" unit frames display (i.e your toons do not have to be in a party/raid for it to operate). I could easily modify this to show toon health instead and get health updates directly from the toons. I guess this might be useful for PVP in battlegrounds where you group gets split up into different parties (I don't PVP, but I think I've read that's the case). I haven't done this, because a) no ones asked and b) if someone does ask, do they want mana/rage/energy display as well?

What do you think? Any comments?

I don't PVP that much, but when you get into battlegrounds, it splits you up into a raid. So yeah you aren't in the same group.
I think it would be best if you could toggle it to show mana/rage/energy, period. I like being able to turn things on and off