Mouse broadcasting

[redmanjd]

I have raf leveled 4 druids to 44 and now i am starting to look think about end game pvp. Now i have been searching and was looking for someone to tell me is mouse broadcasting allowed by blizzard? I am using keyclone and try to use Hurricane and it does not allow me to move the targeting circle. I can only get it to cast at my feet on the clones. Is this because its not passing the mouse location to the clones because its not allowed by blizzard? I have read the there are other programs that will pass the x,y mouse locations but i have already bought keyclone and am happy with it i was just looking to enhance my gameplay. TY for any non-flame responses.

[Zal]

Can't broadcast mouse clicks.

[skarlot]

well WoW behaves in a way such that, you can tlel it the mouse has moved to X or Y by sending a WM_MOUSEMOVE message, but then WoW will ask where is the cursor, by calling GetCursorPos. Since that's a global thing, the only way for the AoE targgeting to move before the click is by injecting a DLL which is what I did in Octopus. I dont think its neccesarily correct to say its not allowed. I have even asked on there forums but they don't respond. No one knows why WoW was coded like it was except the person who coded it, or those in charge.

[Freddie]

I dont think its neccesarily correct to say its not allowed. I have even asked on there forums but they don't respond.

I agree. I'm one of the people who keeps saying that I'm afraid to use your technique in my own program because I'm not sure it's permitted, but that doesn't mean I think it's against the rules. I just don't know. The rules are written in an ambiguous way and their meaning isn't clear. The provision that *might* forbid this technique is 4.B.(iv) of the EULA. That's the only rule I know of that says anything about this subject, if in fact it does.

By the way it's possible to broadcast clicks without hooking GetCursorPos by moving the mouse, then pausing while Windows updates whatever data structures it will use to service WoW, then clicking. This is what HotkeyNet does. The advantage is I don't have to worry even a tiny bit that I might get my users in trouble. The disadvantage is that it's slow. On a 2.4 GHz dual-core with two WoWs the pause needs about 16 ms. On a slow machine with lots of WoWs per core it can take an eternity.

[skarlot]

guess you can get hte AoE target up that way too unless it triggers a WM_MOUSEMOVE.

You know they have some scanning before connect, if it fails some tests it goes "Unable to validate game version" or something. I think when I had a debugger attached or just used detours on D3D it caused this. So I should think they'd do something other than banning if they decide they don't like it. My biggest concern would be some automated detection picking up the detours, but even that would suprise me.

[Misanthropia]

maybe it is possible to cast the AOE on the tank of the group? and then move the tank so the aoe completely covers the mobs.