Hotsrings???

[filthandfowl]

So I am kinda new to keyclone (mad props to the creator... you are the friggin man), but I want to setup the leaderless/targetless setup as shown in another thread on the forums here. My problems seems to be that I have no freakin clue what hotstrings are lol. Can somebody clue me in? Also if anyone can upload an example of their keybind files so that I can see exactly what it is I am supposed to be using that would be great. Thanks

[Dominian]

Working on the hotstrings aswell but the hard part seems to be understanding it!

My rl mate told me that once you understand how it works it gets realy simple but you just have to read the guide again and again and again.

I assume you already read the tread:

Focusless, targetless, 'leaderless' setup.

The wiki is realy nice aswell...

[Jamien]

Hotstrings confused the hell out of me the first time as well. However, I'll try to explain it to you:

Character 1 is your main. Character 2 and 3 are your slaves.
You want to set up hot strings so that you press [ on whatever WoW you have in focus, and all the characters follow.
In the hot strings section (Keymapping) you will see this:


Ignore the 1 Test bit.

We want to set up hotstrings for Character 1. Click New up the top.
For this example lets assume you want the button [ to be follow. The other button we will use will be ]
Click on the box under KEY and press the [ button. Now in the box on the right, HOTSTRING, type in Follow1. Now click Add.
Now back in KEY, press Ctrl+Alt+] and in HOTSTRING type Follow2, click add.
Again, in KEY press Ctrl+Shift+], HOSTRING type Follow3, click add.

Up the top click Save. Label this Follow1

Click new.
In key press Alt+Shift+], hostring type Follow1
In key press [, hotstring type Follow2
In key press Ctrl+Shift+], hotstring type Follow3
Save as Follow2

Click new
In key press Alt+Shift+], hostring type Follow1
In key press Ctrl+Alt+], hotstring type Follow2
In key press [, hotstring type Follow3
Save as Follow3

In command editor, you can set each copy of WoW to load with a pre-defined keymap. In this case you would want each character to load their respective keymaps. Char 1 would load Follow1, etc.

Ingame you need some macros made up.
/target [mod:alt, mod:shift, nomod:ctrl, target=Character1] [mod:alt, nomod:shift, mod:ctrl, target=Character2] [nomod:alt, mod:shift, mod:ctrl, target=Character 3]
/follow

Now what these keymaps are doing is:
You are currently playing Character 1.
The macro you made up is on Bar6 position one. On all the characters Bar6 position one is bound to ].
When you press [ on Character 1 (Note- [ doesn't have to be bound to anything!) , keyclone reads that key press and registers that it has a keymapping for that key.
It then sends out the hotstring "Follow1" to all open WoW's that also have keymaps.
Keyclone would send the hotstring to Character 2, which would read that you have just pressed Alt+Shift+].
The macro kicks in, which reads that you have alt and shift pressed thus targets Character 1 and follows.

So essentially when you press the [ key on one wow, keyclone makes the other wow's think you are pressing other keys as well.

I hope that explains it :P

[olipcs]

I'd like to pint you to the keymapping tutorial of Araketh:

What exactly are hotstrings for?

perhaps its all you need
(and all but the last sentence is correct, and better explained as I could do it in the ftl-wiki )