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

[Ken]

Another feature request:
It would be nice if the "leave battleground" button would be broadcasted.

[MoonD0G]

I'm loving this addon, I can't thank you enough just for being able to mess w/ settings on one toon, and set all other toons accordingly!

I was wondering, how difficult would it be to add in a couple of commands, "/jamba assistmaster" and "/jamba followmaster" or something similar to those. The reason I ask is because I prefer an assist approach to attacking, but I like the ease of switching masters your addon provides. And as far as the follow, I don't really use follow after combat, I like for them to stay in place til I tell them otherwise.

If something similar is already implemented into it, I apologize. I've read thru quite a bit, and haven't seen anything quite like this.

Thanks for all of your hard work on such a great addon.

[Jafula]

I'm loving this addon, I can't thank you enough just for being able to mess w/ settings on one toon, and set all other toons accordingly!

I was wondering, how difficult would it be to add in a couple of commands, "/jamba assistmaster" and "/jamba followmaster" or something similar to those. The reason I ask is because I prefer an assist approach to attacking, but I like the ease of switching masters your addon provides. And as far as the follow, I don't really use follow after combat, I like for them to stay in place til I tell them otherwise.

If something similar is already implemented into it, I apologize. I've read thru quite a bit, and haven't seen anything quite like this.

Thanks for all of your hard work on such a great addon.

Glad you like the addon. I agree, the push settings is great concept. Read below for assist and further below for follow which is implemented already.

=====[NOT IMPLEMENTED YET]=====

Assist

As for the /assist command; if implemented in Jamba, it would not be something that you could modify in combat. That means, you can not change masters in combat and have the assist command change as well. It works well if you NEVER change leader in combat!

I will add an assist master function in 0.3 for you; but to use it you will have to bind a key to the "Jamba Assist Master" function. And to assist, you will have to press the key. So perhaps you are better off using your current macro set; that way you can incorporate your /assist along with a command like attack or cast.

Switch Master In Combat Solution

Assist

To solve this issue, I am considering adding 5 "switch master" key binds. This will be one macro that you can edit. In your case, you might have it simply like this:

/assist %TOON%

Now what jamba will do on startup (and when you request) is modify each of the 5 "switch master" macros to replace %TOON% with the name of each character that you have in your Jamba Team. In order to map toons to keybinds; you give each character a "system" tag; like "setmaster1", "setmaster2", ..., "setmaster5". Jamba will replace %TOON% in the macro with for "switch master key 1" to the name of the toon that has the tag "setmaster1", etc for the other 4 keys/toons.

In your case, you would need to also outside of this system, run the /jamba setmaster command as well.

Focus Method

If you were using the focus method, in these switch macros, you could combine the two as focus only needs to be set once per master change. Using the new option I am adding in (great idea Ken); to automatically change master when the focus changes; you have a pretty sweet switching system. Assist you need to click everytime you fight a new mob (and you would have to click a different key for each toon).

/focus %TOON%

This essentially means you can add a new toon to your team and not have to write a new macro for it. And you can change masters and have the focus change in combat. You could also set up the same key for character to do a PIP swap using your favourite keyclone / hotkeynet application.

=====[IMPLEMENTED AND AVAILABLE IN JAMBA NOW]=====

Follow

The follow feature you requested is already implemented in 0.2a.

If you issue this command on one of your toons; it will that toon will tell "all" the others to also follow the master as well.

/jamba-follow master all

If you just want each toon to follow the master and not tell the other toons, just use:

/jamba-follow master

The "all" in the first command is actually a tag. If you look in the Jamba options, under the "Tags" tab, you will see that you can set tags for each character. Only the characters that have the "all" tag will follow the master. By default all characters get the "all" tag.

You could give your priest a tag "supermonkey" and then issue the command

/jamba-follow master supermonkey

and only your priest would follow the master.

Cool?

Does the follow thing make sense? Give it a go. Also bug me about the whole /assist thing if you have some ideas / questions.

[Jafula]

Another feature request:
It would be nice if the "leave battleground" button would be broadcasted.

Hmmm, I don't PVP, the wow api command for this is "LeaveBattlefield()" and it does not seem to be protected so assuming this is correct, I'll gladly implement a "/jamba leavebg <tag>" command to do this for you. You'll have to test it. :P

[Jafula]

I don't think I can make the "/jamba setmeasmaster all" part of my PiP switch macro's, as every toon would broadcast that to every other toon.
But it will be easy enough to have a second macro, which is mouse clicked, so only the current client activates the "/jamba setmeasmaster all" macro.

I'd like to say keep up the excellent work on your addon. By far, its the best multibox addon out there.
And you're also active on these forums for support of your addon, which absolutely rocks.

Thanks for the kind words and you are so welcome!

If you know who the new master will be in each macro; you could use the command

/jamba setmaster Yaswar

where Yaswar is the toon you wish to be the master. Of course, you'll need to run this command on each toon.

[Jafula]

I don't play WoW but the huge number of downloads on this thread caught my attention, so I just read most of it. Sometimes you can tell when a piece of software is great just from seeing user comments and the way the developer answers. That's obviously the case here.

Jamba looks so good, maybe I'll roll a few WoW toons just to try it out.

:love: Thank you.

[vblifeline]

Could you add alerts for spell procs? i made a small addon to do it for me but i would love integration into jamba to alert me while on the main guy. Im mostly interesting in Nightfall for warlocks. but im sure you can add others as well.

Might help ya out not sure.

function NightFallAlert:COMBAT_TEXT_UPDATE()
	if arg1 == "SPELL_AURA_START" and arg2 == "Shadow Trance" then
    	self:Print("SHADOW TRACE");
	end
end

[Jafula]

Could you add alerts for spell procs? i made a small addon to do it for me but i would love integration into jamba to alert me while on the main guy. Im mostly interesting in Nightfall for warlocks. but im sure you can add others as well.

The spell proc is going into a later version; but if you are going to supply the code to do it... I could "hack" it in for you and refactor it for other spells later.

[ZorbaTheGeek]

Is it possible to make the slave units auto-accept trades when the master hits accept? I'm guessing this may be a protected function but it would be extremely handy.

[Crucial]

Man I love this addon -- don't know how I lived without it now. I'd love to see it enhanced though with passing/need/greed on items for individual toons by loot quality, type and/or name and selling of things by name as well (like those white items that you'd consider vendor trash anyways). There was an addon that could do this but I can't recall what it is anymore but it'd be nice to see it contained all within Jamba somehow. Regardless, great work - keep it up!