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

[Jafula]

The new syntax of "/w toon !mb" (where mb is a chat snippet that described multi-boxing) looks simple and clear... but who exactly is "toon"? Is this just someone out of the blue that my main wants to send a whisper to (without first having received a message by the main or any of the slaves)?

Yes, "toon" is anyone you want to whisper to. You do not need to have received a whisper before you can do this. You can initiate this from any toon (master/slave).

Can a slave initiate a whisper with a chat snippet (from the main screen)?

When you say "main screen", I assume you mean the master. To get a slave to whisper someone from the master screen, you can type on the master:

/w slave @someone my message to someone from slave

If you want to send a chat snippet that has a name of mb (typing on master via slave):

/w slave @someone !mb

The syntax of "/w slave @bob !mb" (where the main replies to a slave that someone else had whispered to) seems clear enough... but I'm not sure why the "@bob" part is required.

@bob is optional and you can use it to tell the slave to whisper a particular person (in this case bob) rather than the last person that whispered them.

From what I can tell, the normal operation of Jamba is the "Forward Whispers and Relay" (forwards a whisper directed to a slave to the master, and then a reply to the slave from the master will cause the slave to reply to the original whisperer with the master's reply). So with this rule, I would imagine that "/w slave !mb" (with the "/w slave" part being filled in via the press of the key bound to "reply") would do the trick... and would be a godsend if "bob" has one of those funky special ascii character names.

Yes, if a slave forwards a whisper to your master and you reply to your slave, the slave forwards your reply onto the orginal sender, and you can use a chat snippet in this case.

Which is actually the original design of the system, the addition I made yesterday was to let chat snippets be used in all whispers, not just when replying to someone via a slave (from the master).