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

[zoneblitz61]

Jafula,

I know this might not be a possible feature, but I got to thinking it would be pretty awesome if jamba could do it... make an option so that all your alts damage spells would auto attack the focus' target (your mains target) if they have a focus with a target and is alive, otherwise just cast normally


I got this idea because I've been trying out bar mods after trinity bars 2.0 is going to macaroon which won't work until 3.0/WOTLK and I can't seem to set up the bar conditions on any other bar mods to do that for me, and its a pain to create macros for every single spell to assist my main.

[firest4rter]

I just made the switch to this mod to give it a try and I am liking it.

With regards to your UI feature. It looks good, obviously small and compact is better. One other feature that would be good, although it would bloat the UI a bit is to have a small line of text per toon to show UI messages from that client. ie. it would show quest objectives as you see them, or out of range targeting errors etc. MultiboxerV2 has this and I found it quite useful to keep an eye on to confirm things are happening as planed or to quickly see why what you thought should be happening is not.

[Jafula]

Jafula,

I know this might not be a possible feature, but I got to thinking it would be pretty awesome if jamba could do it... make an option so that all your alts damage spells would auto attack the focus' target (your mains target) if they have a focus with a target and is alive, otherwise just cast normally


I got this idea because I've been trying out bar mods after trinity bars 2.0 is going to macaroon which won't work until 3.0/WOTLK and I can't seem to set up the bar conditions on any other bar mods to do that for me, and its a pain to create macros for every single spell to assist my main.

This kind of decision making can only be made in macros; so the only way Jamba could do it is by creating a macro and getting you to assign a key to the macro. This is exactly what you are doing now and everyone does it slightly differently.

I'm planning a macro-rewrite scheme where you can build your macros up with tags embedded in them. Jamba replaces those tags with the name of an actual character. This might help you some.

Did you know you can edit macros out of game? Also in game, you can copy and paste and move the cursor around by holding alt.

[Jafula]

I just made the switch to this mod to give it a try and I am liking it.

With regards to your UI feature. It looks good, obviously small and compact is better. One other feature that would be good, although it would bloat the UI a bit is to have a small line of text per toon to show UI messages from that client. ie. it would show quest objectives as you see them, or out of range targeting errors etc. MultiboxerV2 has this and I found it quite useful to keep an eye on to confirm things are happening as planed or to quickly see why what you thought should be happening is not.

Those messages are coming, but I plan to send them via Jamba's chat / warning system rather than just one line. That way you get a history of them as well. I imagine this will be spammy, but for the first release of this, I'll leave it as is and see if I get any feedback.

[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?

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

How about both health and mana ( as a smaller bar underneath). I wouldn't want to see just mana for instance. I'm not going to have a chance to change it before release, so lets see if someone actually wants the feature before I build it.

[Grimgear]

I first started using the MultiBoxer addon when I started. One nice feature it had on it's "team" GUI is it echoed error messages next to the name (spell is not ready, you have no target) I found this a nice feature when I was not sure why a character was not responding as expected (without switching to that character). I also run all copies of WoW on one machine and only use one monitor (I had multiple monitors, but the one on my daughters computer burned out and had to giver her my second one ) However, since you are working on the team GUI, if you could somehow fit a feature like that in, it would be great :thumbsup:

[davedontmind]

I have a couple of suggestions/thoughts for the wonderful Jamba:

1) I see a "warn when target isn't master" option, but no "warn when focus isn't master" option - is it possible to add that? All my macros rely on the master having the focus of the slaves, and it can get rather confusing when this isn't the case!

2) There seems to have been a recent increase in whispers from level 1 toons selling gold. To combat that I use SpamSentry to ignore whispers from toons lower than level 5 (which works fantastically), however if the /w is to one of my slaves, although the /w never appears on the slave, it still gets forwared to the master. Is there an easy solution to this? I'd still like whispers forwarded, but I don't want to see whispers from really low level toons.

[Jafula]

I first started using the MultiBoxer addon when I started. One nice feature it had on it's "team" GUI is it echoed error messages next to the name (spell is not ready, you have no target) I found this a nice feature when I was not sure why a character was not responding as expected (without switching to that character). I also run all copies of WoW on one machine and only use one monitor (I had multiple monitors, but the one on my daughters computer burned out and had to giver her my second one ) However, since you are working on the team GUI, if you could somehow fit a feature like that in, it would be great :thumbsup:

Those messages are coming, but I plan to send them via Jamba's chat / warning system rather than just one line. That way you get a history of them as well. I imagine this will be spammy, but for the first release of this, I'll leave it as is and see if I get any feedback.

[Jafula]

I have a couple of suggestions/thoughts for the wonderful Jamba:

1) I see a "warn when target isn't master" option, but no "warn when focus isn't master" option - is it possible to add that? All my macros rely on the master having the focus of the slaves, and it can get rather confusing when this isn't the case!

2) There seems to have been a recent increase in whispers from level 1 toons selling gold. To combat that I use SpamSentry to ignore whispers from toons lower than level 5 (which works fantastically), however if the /w is to one of my slaves, although the /w never appears on the slave, it still gets forwared to the master. Is there an easy solution to this? I'd still like whispers forwarded, but I don't want to see whispers from really low level toons.

I can squeeze the warn if not focus option in for you sooner rather than later. Not sure about the whispers; I'll have to investigate some more, but it should be possible to not forward whispers from low levels.

[Jafula]

I've heard rumours that the 3+ patch is coming in a few days. I'm going to hold off releasing the next Jamba until after the patch (assuming it arrives within the next few days). I'll try to get Jamba out as soon as possible after the patch.