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

[Jafula]

Hi,
just stopping by to thank you for this incredible addon. I just started using it a few days ago and it is great.
Thank you and keep up the good work,
Bunny

Thank you for stopping by and taking the time to write something. It's nice to know people are using Jamba.

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.

Doesn't sound like there's really any reason to go ahead and add that in, unless others actually want it. Sounds like I would be better off just using the assist macro I'm already using (easy enough).

I did have one other idea, and I'm sure even if it could be implemented it would probably take a back seat to other more pressing things to add, but I thought I would throw it out there. Since you can send the settings to other chars for the addon, do you know if its possible to push game settings to other toons as well? Say... Keybindings for instance. I go in and set all my keybinds for one, then instead of going to each one, I could just hit "Push to Other Characters" and they then have the same keybinds. I realize there are a couple of batch files somewhere on these forums that others have written for this exact function, but I have yet to get one to function properly for me. Just an idea.

Sure, I'll leave the /assist out as I want to think some more about how to implement assisting, focus, targetting, etc. I've wanted to add a keybinding scheme to Jamba, as I have some functions I want bound to three keys. As a seperate idea, yes, it would be possible to push keybinds, but I can imagine it would take some time to go accross the network. Anyway these ideas are not likely to get implemented soon, but know that they are something I would like to do.

Just put Jamba into play last night, I have some issues that likely are covered 7 times in this thread, so don't worry about them too much, I haven't read the whole thread cover to cover as an active user yet. One example that was a little odd was when I was trying to have quest sharing and completing, it seemed that the slaves would accept the last quest I had completed when I accepted a new quest. It was like the slaves were one step behind. I'm sure I twiddled something wrong though, I'll tinker with it.

The defaults should just work without causing harm! Make sure you don't have another addon (like twobox or multiboxer) trying to do some quest automation for you as well.

One thing I think we could and should do as a community is start making an "owner's manual/FAQ" for Jamba, using this thread as the blackboard and having it end up on the wiki, which also would lend itself well to turning into a downloadable pdf that could be bundled with Jamba or downloaded separately. I realize a lot of that data is in this thread, we could do a lot of excerpting or revisions to get that helpfile vibe.

Documentation always suffers doesn't it? I'm going to work on it real soon (hehe). I also thought a PDF might be a nice idea. Stay tuned.

Main reason for the post is an idea I got from someone's comment in my Frankenstein thread based on main assists. I'm assuming that poster is using the name of his toon when he does mainassisttarget and such. But then I was thinking why not have a variable like Main Assist? Hmm, Jamba supports naming a member of the team as Master, why not have a capability to do something like /jamba setmeasmasterassist all, so that the other toons can /assist masterassist?

Really clever macro writers can likely build macros that can do this sort of thing, have a main assist macro and then use a separate macro to edit in the name of a targeted character, but I'm thinking Jamba may be able to do it much more cleanly and intuitively.

In similar fashion you could create variable for MainHealTarget or MainTank as well, though that also opens the door down the road to tying in to things like Bigwigs MT window, because adding those sorts of functions would likely add to MB capability to be more flexible and effective within a raid setting.

As lacitpo says, this is on the roadmap, but with the tags Jamba uses, the idea being that the tags can be replaced in the macros with the actual toon that has that tag. So you could tag a toon as a "mainassist" and then write a macro that included "%mainassist%-target". When you loaded your team; Jamba would replaces the %mainassist% with the first toon it finds with that tag.

Anyway, any ideas you have are always welcome.