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

[Anjuna]

Multiboxing without Jamba is just plain stupid. I love this mod!

[Jafula]

I just downloaded and installed Jamba 2a and am impressed with the amount of configuration and settings that I am used to doing manually.
I set up a couple of test level 1 characters to try this out and so far I cannot get the "Auto Follow After Combat" option to work.
I am assuming there is something I am failing to setup somewhere. I added my slave to the master's setup and set the master to "master" in the drop down box and then "Push to Characters".
I also setup the slaves configuration as it appears to require (slave config shows other character as master)
The Auto follow after combat option is checked on the slave.


After entering combat the slave immediately sent out a message that she was not following or targeting master and after the mobs die, she just stands there and does not follow.
Not sure if this is a setup issue or a bug, but I have tried using it with no other addons installed and after deleting all traces of Jamba and reinstalling it, still not working.

Thank you very much for taking the time to develop this project, it looks like it has huge potential to replace alot of what we are used to doing manually or with a handful of addons.

Ok, auto follow after combat works for me in 0.2a.

In the main Jamba interface where there are tabs; Team, Tags, Chat and Warnings; if you click on the Team tag, do both of the toons in this list have their boxes checked? Its a bit confusing, but they both need to be "enabled" and thats what the checkboxes are for*. Only enabled characters will respond to stuff. Make sure you push this new enabled setup to the slave.

Please write here or PM me and let me know you got it working after "enabling" the characters. I hate that you had to go through all that trouble; or that something else is wrong.

(Aside: I'm investigating ways to make this more obvious - something like the friends pane, where disabled members are greyed out).

* checkboxes also used for removing a character -- confusing huh.

[Jafula]

Multiboxing without Jamba is just plain stupid. I love this mod!

lol :love:

[Solon]

All right Jafula, I picked up your addon (this was before .2) and played with it quite a bit duoing with a friend. I saw it during my long lurking and learning period here. I must say I am impressed. It was good enough that I have upgraded to vista 64 for more RAM (Vista 64 is a PiTA). With my system now I can 5-box on 2 screens comfortably. I purchased a liscense for keyclone, and am gettin ready to set up some new RAF accounts. Then I used .2 with the same friend, a huge leap forward. You sir (or ma'am), are finally making me come to terms with the wallet hit and become a boxer. Thanks for the hard work. Now back to more research before I start. Keep it up! :thumbsup:

EDIT: clarity

[zanthor]

The focus doesn't seem to work reliably. I don't know if I'm using this right so I'll break down my config.

5 clients, 5 hotkeys to switch PIP.
For simplicty we'll say F1-F5

Each is also bound to macro's such as:
/jamba setmaster Sarnarn
/focus Sarnarn
/script fzStart("Sarnarn")

/jamba setmaster Samarn
/focus Samarn
/script fzStart("Samarn")


Without the Focus command and utilizing Jamba to set focus to new master Jamba would announce that all 5 had the right new focus.
They however, did not. There wasn't any consistancy to it either.

Everything else I've toyed with (not much) is working great, love the autoshopper, quest stuff seems to work well as well.

Also an overall throttle on the warnings would be great, My current follow engine strobes a follow once a second... this means if I turn on melee I get "Follow Broke" messages 4x a second...

[larifari]

hi, this addon is realy cool, thank u very much @Jafula !!!

But i still don´t understand how the focus system works or if the focus automaticaly changes if my main dies.

Do i still need focus macros, i alwasy get the message from my toons, that they are not targeting masters or something.



What are good targeting macros to work with jamba (focussystem, Main1, names etc.)?

and do i have to insert the toon names on every WoW start or is there a better solution ??



best regards,

jan

[Zub]

The focus doesn't seem to work reliably. I don't know if I'm using this right so I'll break down my config.

5 clients, 5 hotkeys to switch PIP.
For simplicty we'll say F1-F5

Each is also bound to macro's such as:
/jamba setmaster Sarnarn
/focus Sarnarn
/script fzStart("Sarnarn")

/jamba setmaster Samarn
/focus Samarn
/script fzStart("Samarn")


Without the Focus command and utilizing Jamba to set focus to new master Jamba would announce that all 5 had the right new focus.
They however, did not. There wasn't any consistancy to it either.

Everything else I've toyed with (not much) is working great, love the autoshopper, quest stuff seems to work well as well.

Also an overall throttle on the warnings would be great, My current follow engine strobes a follow once a second... this means if I turn on melee I get "Follow Broke" messages 4x a second...

Not sure how to get this to work myself either. I toyed with the Jamb keybinds as well for focus and target, but have no idea how they are supposed to work.
All the rest is great tho, and seems to work fine in my 3-box config.

[Jafula]

The focus doesn't seem to work reliably. I don't know if I'm using this right so I'll break down my config.

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Without the Focus command and utilizing Jamba to set focus to new master Jamba would announce that all 5 had the right new focus.
They however, did not. There wasn't any consistancy to it either.

Here's the low down on focus.

1. The wow api FocusUnit() function is protected, so addons cannot call it. There is no way for Jamba to automatically set focus to a unit.
2. But what Jamba can do is create a macro internally that runs "/focus master" where master is the toon you choose to be the master.
3. When the master changes and you have the "Set Focus To Master" option checked in the Jamba Team configuration; Jamba will attempt to rewrite that macro to set focus to the new master. But if you are in combat, Jamba cannot rewrite that macro (forbidden by wow api).
4. If Jamba succeeds in re-writing that macro; your toons tell the master that they have sucessfully changed the focus. You also get a failed message if you are in combat.
5. Now having a macro without a means of calling that macro is a bit silly; so Jamba provides a key bind to call that macro. You need to bind a key on all your toons to the "Jamba Focus" key. You can find this binding in the wow keybinding interface.
6. Once you have set up a key and the focus macro gets re-written, Jamba toons will tell the master that they have successfully changed the focus and they will also tell the master "Press E to activate." (If you had E bound as your Jamba Set Focus key.)
7. So you press E on your keyboard which transmits the E keypress to your toons (using KeyClone, etc) and all the toons will run the /focus master command (which can be done in combat). Now they all have focus on the master.

So, its pretty much useless for PVP (cannot change focus in combat).

I use the target version of this setup for PVE. If I run with a new main, I don't have to change my /target macros to point to the new main. I run with "/cast [target=targettarget] UberSpellName" macros; so regardless of who my master is, when I press my "Jamba Target" key, I my toons always target the correct "master" toon.

Also an overall throttle on the warnings would be great, My current follow engine strobes a follow once a second... this means if I turn on melee I get "Follow Broke" messages 4x a second...

The throttling I could do; but how about if I implemented your follow strobe in Jamba-Follow; that way Jamba would know that Jamba was the cause of the follow break and would suppress the warning message. I could build a special build just for you over the next couple of days, say 0.2b and we can tweak it until you're happy. What do you think?

5 clients, 5 hotkeys to switch PIP.
For simplicty we'll say F1-F5

Each is also bound to macro's such as:
/jamba setmaster Sarnarn
/focus Sarnarn
/script fzStart("Sarnarn")

/jamba setmaster Samarn
/focus Samarn
/script fzStart("Samarn")

I have a suggestion for you. Don't use the Jamba "Set Focus To Master" option. Stay with what you have currently for focus.

An idea, please comment:

How about Jamba provided 5 "focus" macros and keybinds like you have bound to F1-F5. They might look like.

/jamba setmaster %TOON%
/focus %TOON%
/whatever-else-you-want you-can-edit-these just-leave-the-%TOON%-markers

So when you make a new team, Jamba writes these macros for you (on startup) by replacing %TOON% with the actual toon name. This way, when you add new toons, etc, you don't need to write a new macro for them.

There would be a system to map a toon to a key, so the correct key had the correct toons name in it.

[Razman]

I set up using the target system and using targettarget for spell casts. The problem is that the target breaks a lot for a reason i can't fathom. It will be out of a fight or in a fight it may be one alt or 2,3 or all 4. It works most of the time but I found it too unnerving when fighting in instances for my guys to stop dpsing.

Ive set it up ok -- im using the all box ticked, targate master etc etc. It works just fine then for no reason just breaks on 1+ toon.

Only way around it is to mash the target button Jamba sets up in the keybindings. Was too frustrating so I took this feature off -- used my old follow macro which i had disabled. Every other feature of Jamba however I find awesome and I can see myself not doing without it.

[Jafula]

The problem is that the target breaks a lot for a reason i can't fathom.

Can you clarify this? I run with this target setup. My toons all target the master. It works really well. Do your toons lose the master as the target?

There is nothing in the Jamba code could cause the toons to lose target like that.

What mobs are you fighting that you experience this?

Do you have other addons that might be conficting?

Are you using /assist in macro?

Or any other commands that would cause a target to change?

I've had this happen sometimes when fighting mobs with some sort of push back/throw mechanism. This action causes the toons to their lose target (esp. when thrown, they go out of range, maybe). I just hit the Jamba Target key and they all retarget the master. Realy quick to do in combat (like your mashing).

Having said all that, there could be a problem, and I'll keep a watch and try and see when my toons lose targets. Is anyone else having this problem?