Moved from -Focus- to -Party1- system, small issue with /Follow

[Ualaa]

I was using this as my primary button "1." Now that I am level 52, Its time that I actually start making an effort with scripts to utilize something that changes leader when one of my toons dies. Is adding the /follow jamba master command the best way? I have Jamba, but I havent figured out how to change who my leader is effectively(FAST) when I die. I have a macro setup and I can change my WoW windows without any issue. Is there a way to have it so that when I use my F1-F5 to change my wow window, when someone dies, the "F1-5" key also assigns that new person leader, and all other party members set him as the new focus? Sorry for the nooby question, while I have found 20 threads on leader both here and at hotkeynet, I havent figured out how to make this work.




When I press my switch toon key, in my case Shift-F1 through Shift-F5, keyclone broadcasts that to each of my clients.
The Shift-F(#) key tells Keyclone's Maximizer to bring that toon's window to the active front position.
Warcraft has a macro on each of those keybinds as well. So with a five toon group, they each have five macro's.

For the toon who is the new leader (macro 1, for toon 1 // macro 2 for toon 2 // etc), it reads like this:
/jamba setmeasmaster all
/changeactionbar 2

For every other toon (ie the ones who are not being made leader), their macro on that hotkey reads:
/changeactionbar 1
/script PromoteToLeader("TOON-NAME");

The reason for the changeactionbar commands is because party1 results the party leader for the non-leader's, but its the first toon for the leader. IE, party1 = pressing F2 in game using the default keybindings.
I have assist versions of all my spells on the first action bar, and non-assist versions on the second bar.

So when I press the Shift-F4 keybind:
1. Maximizer brings my toon 4 window to the front.
2. Warcraft clicks the promote to leader and go to action bar 1 macro for every toon except toon 4.
3. Warcraft clicks the toon 4 macro which puts that toon on bar 2 and makes it the current Jamba leader.

So when I press my follow macro (which is a Jamba command)...
/jamba-follow master all
The current master runs, while the other toons follow that toon. Whoever is active is considered the master by Jamba.





If you are using F1-F5 to change the active toon, and want to use Focus for your assist method, there is no reason to change the party leader as well.
In the place of my wow-macro's, where I have one for the new leader and four for the not-to-be-leader toon's, you could simply run a macro like this:
/Focus NewToonName

So your F1 key brings that region to the front, and has all toons click the macro on keybinding F1, which makes that toon the Focus for the group.
Pressing F2 does the maximizer command for that toon's region to be in the front, while having all of your toons make that toon the new focus.

Follow Focus will work for your follow commands, because the focus will be the moving/active toon for all toons. It won't try to follow itself but all of the others will.





I prefer the party leader system.
The major benefit is having Focus free for another use.
The drawback is losing an actionbar worth of keybinds.
In either method, you have a full actionbar (as many spells/abilities) as you normally use, which assist the active toon (Party1 = party leader // or // Focus).

The focus system gives you an extra bar of hotkeys.
The party leader system costs you that bar, but gives you the /Focus command for PvP focus-firing without targeting or for PvE crowd control.

Either will easily switch the leader and/or focus as a wow macro and switch the active region as a keyclone (or other software application) hotkey.

[ilililil]

Thanks for the response, attaching the F# bind to a /focus "charname" might be the best route.

I also make the following assumption based on what you said.

focus - AV battleground, 5 or more player environment where the possession of leader may be subject to restrictions outside of your control

party1- arena, and if ur doing something that is strictly confined to 5 players wherein you have sayso for who is leader.

I might actually adopt the change of action bar as well, this way its more customized as who i primarily control will generally utilize different spellset than slaves.


Thanks for the help!