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

[Jafula]

Jafula,

I have (another) feature request

I love the quest tracker feature but really want to be able to ignore items that are complete across the team. Could you automatically move completed items to the bottom of the list or, better yet, add an option to discontinue tracking a quest once all team members have completed it?

I should be able to add this in the next release. I'll add an option to not display items that are complete across the team, I'll leave it so that you will have to manually untrack the quest (it should go away when you hand it in). Tasks that are complete on some but not all the team members will continue to display until all team members complete it.

[valle2000]

I think there is a ticket up for pets unit bars already. I'd rather not do healing functionality, there are plenty of great mods out there that do that, like healbot, clique and the amount of work required makes me want to run the other way...

I'm using healbot, but the problem is it's not made for multiboxing. It's great when a healer is master but otherwise no good in my opinion. I get problem with chars not listed in the same order on my different toons, messing up if I want to set up clickable regions with hotkeynet. Or am I using it wrong...

A jamba heal function would have the great advantage of looking identical on all toons in the group.
But I understand and respect your answer.

[Iru]

I should be able to add this in the next release. I'll add an option to not display items that are complete across the team, I'll leave it so that you will have to manually untrack the quest (it should go away when you hand it in). Tasks that are complete on some but not all the team members will continue to display until all team members complete it.

That would be perfect

[Jafula]

I'm using healbot, but the problem is it's not made for multiboxing. It's great when a healer is master but otherwise no good in my opinion. I get problem with chars not listed in the same order on my different toons, messing up if I want to set up clickable regions with hotkeynet. Or am I using it wrong...

A jamba heal function would have the great advantage of looking identical on all toons in the group.
But I understand and respect your answer.

I also use healbot and have solved all the problems you have by using using ISBoxer and it's ClickBars. I run healbot on all toons, have it at the same location on the screen, set it up to order my party in the same way on each toon. It's really neat. Here is the relevant thread; please note the repeater regions discussed at the start of the thread are not used, its one of my posts further down that details using clickbars.

http://www.dual-boxing.com/showthread.php?t=30511 (post 19)

In theory you should be able to do the same using HotKeyNet. If you need help setting healbot up, please post back here and I'll try and help you out.

[Khatovar]

I'm using healbot, but the problem is it's not made for multiboxing. It's great when a healer is master but otherwise no good in my opinion. I get problem with chars not listed in the same order on my different toons, messing up if I want to set up clickable regions with hotkeynet. Or am I using it wrong...

A jamba heal function would have the great advantage of looking identical on all toons in the group.
But I understand and respect your answer.

I use HotKeyNet and Pitbull4. In Pitbull, add player to party, then arrange party units alphabetically. From there, you can set up to use mouseover or buttons or whatever you like. You can do the same for pets.

[valle2000]

I also use healbot and have solved all the problems you have by using using ISBoxer and it's ClickBars. I run healbot on all toons, have it at the same location on the screen, set it up to order my party in the same way on each toon. It's really neat. Here is the relevant thread; please note the repeater regions discussed at the start of the thread are not used, its one of my posts further down that details using clickbars.

http://www.dual-boxing.com/showthread.php?t=30511 (post 19)

In theory you should be able to do the same using HotKeyNet. If you need help setting healbot up, please post back here and I'll try and help you out.

Thanks, I'll try this out.

[ElectronDF]

I am currently using your Display Team feature as clickable regions so my slave priest easily can heal anyone of my toons with clicks at my master screen. (I use hotkeynet to check for clicks where the health bars are located on screen). Works great since I also can see if my healer runs out of mana at the same location.

However I am missing the possibility to also see my pets health here. I use the horizontal layout with name, health, mana visible. Would wish to see a fourth bar to the right showing health of available pets as well.

Any plans of please adding pets and is it possible?

Edit:
Would it even be possible to add healing functionality to this Jamba module?
A function where you select one of the jamba team toons to be main healer and typing a spell in a text box, e.g. Renew. Then when left clicking on a health bar (in any toon window) that specified healer will cast this spell on the clicked toon.

Jamba got updated recently (like last month or so) to let you click on names in the display team frame to cast or select chars. Have you updated recently? Also, Jamba is on Curse, so you can use the Curse client to keep it updated.

[Tutunkommon]

Not to be overly negative, but I downloaded 0.6 and upgraded from 0.4g today. I just finally got frustrated to the point that I managed to find a copy of 0.4g to go back to and did so happily. A short list of what I was struggling with, offered as a list of starting points for debugging.

1: All my settings were lost going from 0.4 to 0.6. Worse, when I went back to 0.4 everything was lost again (the original 0.4 settings apparently were destroyed by 0.6)

2: It was a lot of work to get my team added and showing up on everyone's list. I built the team on the master and added just the master to everyone else. This was the same as 0.4g. When I "pushed" to the team, however, nothing happened. This was because everyone (including the master!) was showing up as offline in the master's list. (Dont understand how the master can ever show himself as offline.) I did some reading, renamed the channel, made sure that everyone was appearing in the channel list, added to slaves to the master's 'friend' list, and it sort of started working.

3: The team list that is supposed to show everyones XP (and now health too!). I had values and percentage both turned on. Everyone had 100/100 (100%) XP and health. Except the master. For whatever reason, the master never showed up in the team list.

4: As I came in for a landing from a flight path, all but one of the slaves got D/C'ed. When I logged everyone back in, the master never saw the connected toon as logging back in (because it never logged out). This caused that toon to show Offline in the team list. Guess who never received and invites, and never showed on the team list?

--Items 2 and 4 lead me to think that the code is trying to be too 'clever', and only send data / commands to toons that it determines are online. The problem is that it is frequently wrong in that assessment, and there is no easy way to tell it that those toons are actually there. Code that ignores me because it thinks it is smarter than me is frustrating...

5: The quest watcher puts a large, invisible frame across the center of the screen. This interfered with the mouse when I try to click-drag to adjust my camera view. I had to click off to the side of the screen. in order for it to register.

I still think Jamba is practically required to multi-box properly, and can't imagine trying to play without it. That is why it was so frustrating when so many things didn't work properly. Luckily, I had a working version that I was able to revert to so I can continue to play.

[Zub]

heya Jafula,
just wondering if we can make the team display bar of current toon green instead of red :-)
so that when all toons are following the main, all bars look green (instead of the main red and the other green)
i don't mean this to be a new feature, but if you could pinpoint the code where i can change this it would be great :-)

Thanks
-Zub

[Maxion]

Not to be overly negative, but I downloaded 0.6 and upgraded from 0.4g today. I just finally got frustrated to the point that I managed to find a copy of 0.4g to go back to and did so happily. A short list of what I was struggling with, offered as a list of starting points for debugging.

1: All my settings were lost going from 0.4 to 0.6. Worse, when I went back to 0.4 everything was lost again (the original 0.4 settings apparently were destroyed by 0.6)

2: It was a lot of work to get my team added and showing up on everyone's list. I built the team on the master and added just the master to everyone else. This was the same as 0.4g. When I "pushed" to the team, however, nothing happened. This was because everyone (including the master!) was showing up as offline in the master's list. (Dont understand how the master can ever show himself as offline.) I did some reading, renamed the channel, made sure that everyone was appearing in the channel list, added to slaves to the master's 'friend' list, and it sort of started working.

3: The team list that is supposed to show everyones XP (and now health too!). I had values and percentage both turned on. Everyone had 100/100 (100%) XP and health. Except the master. For whatever reason, the master never showed up in the team list.

4: As I came in for a landing from a flight path, all but one of the slaves got D/C'ed. When I logged everyone back in, the master never saw the connected toon as logging back in (because it never logged out). This caused that toon to show Offline in the team list. Guess who never received and invites, and never showed on the team list?

--Items 2 and 4 lead me to think that the code is trying to be too 'clever', and only send data / commands to toons that it determines are online. The problem is that it is frequently wrong in that assessment, and there is no easy way to tell it that those toons are actually there. Code that ignores me because it thinks it is smarter than me is frustrating...

5: The quest watcher puts a large, invisible frame across the center of the screen. This interfered with the mouse when I try to click-drag to adjust my camera view. I had to click off to the side of the screen. in order for it to register.

I still think Jamba is practically required to multi-box properly, and can't imagine trying to play without it. That is why it was so frustrating when so many things didn't work properly. Luckily, I had a working version that I was able to revert to so I can continue to play.

Pretty sure settings were carried over when I upgraded my Jamba, but I had been getting every version in between and not done such a large version jump.

To quickly add a team, invite everyone to a group, and broadcast the command /jamba-team addparty

Make sure everyone has the correct channel and password set, then relog after broadcasting.

Give Jamba time to load the xp bars etc upon logging in, if you start doing stuff too fast, they sometimes get stuck at 100%.

Make sure to do "/jamba-team iammaster all" on the master after loading and inviting.

if it bugs after a dc, try relogging those characters, though fixing the stuff above should take care of it.

Alt-click and drag to get the quest watcher out of the way, or just disable it in the settings (as I have until they make it possible to click stuff behind it).