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

[Jafula]

Hey everyone,

[s]I've been away for a while and my website seems to have got itself tangled in the web and gone for a walk ... (lol).[/s] I've fixed the problem and it's back up for me. Hopefully you all can see it too.
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To everyone with master follow problems, I believe the problem comes from the fix I made for the auto follow after combat bug on 0.3.[/s] I'll get onto that now. Also I'll make sure that when you turn the follow status / experience bars / gui off that no unnecessary data is being sent over the wire. Likewise for the data that Jamba target sends.

Ok, I found the problem, I was sending follow status updates regardless of whether you wanted them or not. For those that use follow strobing, this will kill your performance (as you have noticed). It will also explain why you are getting random master changes (they are happening, but getting queued up and taking some time to filter through). I've fixed this problem, but I want to test it and check for some other bugs.

Edits:

@Talos - great quality assurance work there; you worked out exactly what was going wrong. Thank you for posting such a detailed explanation. And yes, my fault, not wow's fault. Did you know the follow strobing was zanthor's idea.. It's awesome huh :-).

@zanthor, @cairnz - cheers likewise for the bug reports!

I'm really sorry for the bugs, but thanks so much for reporting them and I'll try and get a bug fix version (0.3b) out in the next 24 hours (or sooner!).

Cheers,
Jafula.

[Jafula]

I get the following error

Interface\AddOns\Jamba\JambaComms.lua:2469: attempt to index local 'targetButton' (a nil value)

when I hit , (my "/follow focus /script SetView(4);" script on 1 of my slace toons)

[what's that "targetButton" ?]

Ah, another silly bug. My bad. I've fixed this one for you. Fix is in 0.3b (soon).

Targetbutton is a variable that holds the button that I use to display your toons portrait and their follow status. You use Jamba slightly differently to me (from what I can tell from your posts) so this bug only manifested itself with your setup. Thanks for reporting it.

[Talos]

Ok, I found the problem, I was sending follow status updates regardless of whether you wanted them or not. For those that use follow strobing, this will kill your performance (as you have noticed). It will also explain why you are getting random master changes (they are happening, but getting queued up and taking some time to filter through). I've fixed this problem, but I want to test it and check for some other bugs.

if you need a tester jaf, let me know
for now ive stopped using the followstrobe function, as it was killing me in pvp, cause i could just not switch leader when 1 died :S
hopefully the next update fixes this

and for the 1243th time
where's your damn paypal link ?

[Xar]

Thanks for this add-on Jafula. I had been using twoboxtoolkit & ZQB and never knew about this addon till the others weren't updated and I came here looking.

I have a request about the pop up box that comes up when you turn in a quest that requires a reward choice, is there anyway you could either add an option to not pop up this box?

Oh and thanks for making flight nodes by name!

[Jafula]

Thanks for this add-on Jafula. I had been using twoboxtoolkit & ZQB and never knew about this addon till the others weren't updated and I came here looking.

I have a request about the pop up box that comes up when you turn in a quest that requires a reward choice, is there anyway you could either add an option to not pop up this box?

Oh and thanks for making flight nodes by name!

Hey, you are welcome!

What box are you referring to? Is it something Jamba does or something WoW does? I don't recall a box appearing for reward choice... Ah, hold on, it could be a bug from a fix I made because of the changes to the wow api in patch 3.0.2? Is it the Jamba-Quest box with the select, abandon, add/remove watch buttons or something different?

[zanthor]

Ok, on the Leadership change lag issue:

I confirmed that it's the data being queued... I changed my follow strobe to 3 seconds (Ugh its slooooow) and the system behaves properly. If a 3 second strobe is the answer I'll live with it, but if there's a way to fix it I'll love it!

[Jafula]

Ok, on the Leadership change lag issue:

I confirmed that it's the data being queued... I changed my follow strobe to 3 seconds (Ugh its slooooow) and the system behaves properly. If a 3 second strobe is the answer I'll live with it, but if there's a way to fix it I'll love it!

Fixed version for you to test in your gmail inbox.

[Talos]

Ive tested your fix jafula, and it cleared any queueing problem
see your PM inbox for more info

for anyone else having these follow-strobe queueing problems, jaf has the fix right now for the next update !

thanks again jaf !

[Jafula]

Ok, fixes for Moorea's issue and the follow strobing issue a bunch of you reported (thanks) are available in 0.3b which has been released. Let me know if you find and more bugs. :P

[Mithryx]

I have a question that might sound strange to hardcore multiboxers, but worth a shot anyways

Both my wife and myself are eager multiboxers, she has 3 accounts with shamans and I have 4 accounts where I have a team of shamans and a team of mages setup. However, when we do instances, we like to combine where she run 3 shamans and I run 2. We used to use the Multiboxer addon until 3.02 but now changed to Jamba and love the setup, seems very streamlined and it solved some issues for me. However, we have not yet tried to "duo" in an instance yet, so I wanted to ask what kinda problems we would get with 2 x Jamba users in one team, and how do we go about solving them, anyone have any experience with it?

The first thing I'd see is that we both have Follow on master in our seperate teams, that wont work too well here since I assume just one of us can be master of a team? Is there a way to "isolate" those two Jamba installations within the team and just dont make master the team leader?

There are more things that will appear when we try it, but just wanted to get a head start and ask here if anyone have any experience with it, or if you all box solo.

Thanks.