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

[Jafula]

So my best guess is that something is getting backed up when I change the master causing Jamba to run really slowly. I doubt it's any of the other addons I have installed as I have disabled everything on all toons except Jamba and it still does the same exact thing for the same amount of time. When I do not switch masters however I never experience this problem, or least not in the last week and a half I've had this installed.

Any help is appreciated

Yup; it's Jamba swamping the addon channel with too much information. You can reduce what your toons send to each other. I suggest turning off the Forward UI Errors and Forward UI Information options in the Jamba-Talk options. This should help a lot.

If you have macros that use jamba commands that use tags; you can minimise traffic by duplicating the macro on all the toons and removing the all tag. (Sorry I can't explain this further right now.)

Jamba uses the Ace3 library which in turn uses ChatThrottleLib. ChatThrottleLib is designed to make sure your characters don't get disconnected when sending addon traffic. Hence when Jamba sends too much information over the wire, you see delays and this is ChatThrottleLib managing the addon traffic. ChatThrottleLib will halve its output rate if your toons FPS is below 20. This sucks for most of us as our slave FPS is usually between 5 - 15.

A solution to this is to make sure all your toons have a minimum of 21 FPS. Another solution is to find all instances of ChatThrottleLib.lua in your Interface/Addons folder and change this line (its near the top of the file):

ChatThrottleLib.MIN_FPS = 20 -- Reduce output CPS to half (and don't burst) if FPS drops below this value

Glad you like Jamba and I hope some of what I have said helps!

[Jafula]

eta on next version?

I aim to have a beta version of 0.5 out for folks to test at the start of June.

Sorry folks; I'm going to have to push this date back to mid June. Silly RL getting in the way again!

[Tdog]

Yup; it's Jamba swamping the addon channel with too much information. You can reduce what your toons send to each other. I suggest turning off the Forward UI Errors and Forward UI Information options in the Jamba-Talk options. This should help a lot.

If you have macros that use jamba commands that use tags; you can minimise traffic by duplicating the macro on all the toons and removing the all tag. (Sorry I can't explain this further right now.)

Jamba uses the Ace3 library which in turn uses ChatThrottleLib. ChatThrottleLib is designed to make sure your characters don't get disconnected when sending addon traffic. Hence when Jamba sends too much information over the wire, you see delays and this is ChatThrottleLib managing the addon traffic. ChatThrottleLib will halve its output rate if your toons FPS is below 20. This sucks for most of us as our slave FPS is usually between 5 - 15.

A solution to this is to make sure all your toons have a minimum of 21 FPS. Another solution is to find all instances of ChatThrottleLib.lua in your Interface/Addons folder and change this line (its near the top of the file):

ChatThrottleLib.MIN_FPS = 20 -- Reduce output CPS to half (and don't burst) if FPS drops below this value

Glad you like Jamba and I hope some of what I have said helps!

Well I've read through something like 30 pages of this thread last night, my eyes hurt , and I've seen you make mention of the /jamba setasmaster all and /jamba setmaster {toon} all commands which I tried which didn't seem to help. However I didn't try the putting the command on the followers so I'll try that again later and see if it helps.

[Tdog]

As far as the fps yea they are usually running at about 10-15 fps on my alts. I was about to go buy a vista 64 so I could use more ram anyways so I suppose I'll just go buy that today and see if it helps.

[davedontmind]

So like the subject says: Issue with WoW windows crashing when I don't take all the toons on a taxi run. So has anyone experience it at all? I think its related with JAMBA but not sure.

Same here. Anyone already on a bird crashes to the desktop when the master takes a flight path. If they're not on a bird, you just get the warning about "I cannot figure out where to go" message. You should be able to switch it to solo mode before doing that if you're not all synched up.

/jamba solo

I've been meaning to try that but it's so rare that I do anything to cause the problem that it's not been a priority. :P

I was not able to reproduce this on my EU server. Are folks still having problems?

I've had the problem a number of times, but I don't think it can possibly be Jamba per se - it's a proper WoW crash (the WoW equivalent of a BSoD or core dump), and addons can't cause that sort of crash.

It usually happens when I have a toon on follow but don't get that toon to open the flight path NPC, so he then attempts to follow (on foot) a toon that takes off on a taxi flight .... crash!

[Jafula]

it's a proper WoW crash (the WoW equivalent of a BSoD or core dump), and addons can't cause that sort of crash.

Yes, they can; I've done it a few times while writing Jamba code.

[Bettysue]

I can recreate the crash on EU and US by:
1) disabling all addons
2) loading more than one WoW instance on a single PC (group all chars)
3) having 2 characters follow a "main"
4) take a flight on the main when my ping is less than 100ish (the chars on follow are within interact range of the flightmaster, though no dialog is open)
5) The 2 on the ground now drop to desktop...

Or I can
1) enable only jamba
2) ...same load group follow scenario as above...
3) open dialog with flightmaster on 1 follower but not the other
4) take flight with master
5) master now crashes, no dialog guy stands there looking silly, seconds follower rarely drops but does more often with a higher ping.

I used 2 routers before my cable modem to cause the higher ping for testing...

I don't think jamba is the cause, but it does change the nature of the problem so perhaps it's simply interacting with a bit of code causing trouble in WoW.

[Shannara]

Hello!

I am new to all of this. Unfortunately, I could not get the newest version of Jamba to invite members at all. Followed instructions on the site, it's the only addon installed to. All slaves kept rejecting invites. With all jamba turned off, the slaves will be prompted to be invited. So I know it's Jamba refusing the invites. It doesnt even prompt to allow invites. It just auto-denies. The Jamba-Group addon is setup correctly.

Could this be a broken version of Jamba? If so, is there an older version w/o this bug (if it exists)?

[Jafula]

Hello!

I am new to all of this. Unfortunately, I could not get the newest version of Jamba to invite members at all. Followed instructions on the site, it's the only addon installed to. All slaves kept rejecting invites. With all jamba turned off, the slaves will be prompted to be invited. So I know it's Jamba refusing the invites. It doesnt even prompt to allow invites. It just auto-denies. The Jamba-Group addon is setup correctly.

Could this be a broken version of Jamba? If so, is there an older version w/o this bug (if it exists)?

There was a bug like this and it has been fixed. Make sure you are using the latest version 0.4e from the website: http://wow.jafula.com/

[DPAD171]

Is there a way i can make it so that whenever the Master targets something, the slave also targets it?
If so, that would be a major help.
So please lmk if there is a way to do that with this addon, or just a way in general. (without having to click a button though)