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

[Jafula]

How do I send chat snippets? I have tested but it only sends my command, not the actual text.
If I have a snippet called mb do I only write !mb in my whisper to send it, or am I missing something here? When doing this my receiver only get !mb as a whisper...

Hmmm, the way I originally built chat snippets was that they only worked when you replied to a slave toon that someone else had whispered, which was just plain lame!

After reading your question and seeing how limiting the functionality was, I changed it so that what you are trying to do will work. You will need Jamba 0.5f which has just been released. You will have to go into the Jamba-Talk settings and check the "Enable Chat Snippets" box.

Now typing /w toon !mb will send your chat snippet text. The snippet command will only work on its own; i.e. trying to send "blah blah !mb blah blah" will not work. You need to send "!mb" only.

Please let me know if this works for you!

Cheers,
Jafula.

[Jafula]

Jamba 0.5f released.


Jamba-Talk

• Chat snippets now need to be enabled, by checking the check box that says "Enable Chat Snippets". Chat snippets can be whispered without need to reply to someone. For example a chat snippet called "mb" with the text explaining about multiboxing can be whispered by typing: /w toon !mb

Jamba-Quest

• Fixed a bug with auto quest accepting which happened due to a change in the wow api for 3.3.3.

[BlueGriffon]

I loaded Jamba 0.5d just last week and have been having a ball with it! I haven't had the opportunity to play with chat snippets yet, but the change log for 0.5f has gotten me interested. But I'm not sure of the syntax from the documentation and the change log.

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

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. 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.

[valle2000]

Hmmm, the way I originally built chat snippets was that they only worked when you replied to a slave toon that someone else had whispered, which was just plain lame!

After reading your question and seeing how limiting the functionality was, I changed it so that what you are trying to do will work. You will need Jamba 0.5f which has just been released. You will have to go into the Jamba-Talk settings and check the "Enable Chat Snippets" box.

Now typing /w toon !mb will send your chat snippet text. The snippet command will only work on its own; i.e. trying to send "blah blah !mb blah blah" will not work. You need to send "!mb" only.

Please let me know if this works for you!

Cheers,
Jafula.

Fanastic, now it works great! Thanks!
This addon is fantastic, I just sent you a donation. Keep up the great work.

Another question/improvement.
Any chance you can allow pets to also be shown in the Jamba team list, and an option to remove the standard party portraits so only the Jamba team list can be used instead?

[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).

[Jafula]

Fanastic, now it works great! Thanks!
This addon is fantastic, I just sent you a donation. Keep up the great work.

Another question/improvement.
Any chance you can allow pets to also be shown in the Jamba team list, and an option to remove the standard party portraits so only the Jamba team list can be used instead?

Sweet, thanks for the donation!

I don't play a pet class, so I have never had the need. I've put your request on the list of things to do here:

http://wow.curseforge.com/addons/jam...-display-team/

I don't know how to remove the party portraits (I'm sure there is a way). I'm trying to make sure Jamba doesn't become a party portrait addon, because that is a lot of work and there are plenty of good addons out there already that do a great job.

Something I would like to do is integrate Jamba into PitBull or XPerl. Feehza has posted some code which you can use to setup a custom group in Pitbull here:

http://www.dual-boxing.com/showthread.php?t=29654

I think, if I was going to spend time on portraits, it would be doing more integration...

[valle2000]

Under Core Team there is an option "override: set to group loot if stranger in group". Would it be possible to make the override only activate if I actually do invite real strangers, not when inviting a player currently in my friend list? When boxing I always want to use free for all, but I want it also when playing with my real life friends.

[alcattle]

Another question/improvement.
Any chance you can allow pets to also be shown in the Jamba team list, and an option to remove the standard party portraits so only the Jamba team list can be used instead?

What do you need to see on pets? If it is HP, I see them in VuhDo. Most of the time I don't want to see them.

[Maxion]

For some reason, broadcasting of abandoning quests does not work for me, and has not in quite a while. (using the jamba quests buttons)
Are you aware of this being a problem Jafula?
Or am I the only one with this problem?

[alcattle]

Are you using the default Quest UI? I use other UI and abandon never works. Maybe we can put our heads togerher (to make one)