Mouseover healing - using the tank as the main while sending signals to the healer

[Freddie]

DariusLloyd, thanks a lot for the info. I want to improve this part of HotkeyNet so I appreciate the input.

As you know we're discussing this topic on HotkeyNet's forum at the same time. I just left a long reply there so I'll keep this one short.

If anyone else is experiencing this problem, could you please test something that might help me improve this? Could you try running Media Player at the same time you play WoW and see if that helps? Thanks.

[Freddie]

However, for mouseover healing instead of sending the mouse click I send the mouse position and a key press (for example shift-f). This seems to be very reliable... it may have something to do with the actual mouse clicking needing to take the program delays into consideration whereas the button press is quicker. Who knows

Could you please paste the healing hotkey here? Even though I helped write it I'm having a senior moment and I can't remember what it was or why it would be different.

[Owltoid]

However, for mouseover healing instead of sending the mouse click I send the mouse position and a key press (for example shift-f). This seems to be very reliable... it may have something to do with the actual mouse clicking needing to take the program delays into consideration whereas the button press is quicker. Who knows

Could you please paste the healing hotkey here? Even though I helped write it I'm having a senior moment and I can't remember what it was or why it would be different.

<Hotkey ScrollLockOn Button4>
	<If MouseIsOverWindowRect Strong 400 450 200 160>
		<SendLabel Curiously>
			<SaveMousePos>
			<Clickmouse Noclick Norestore>
			<Key Ctrl h>
			<Restoremousepos>
	<else>
		<SendLabel Curiously>
			<Key Alt Ctrl h>



<Hotkey ScrollLockOn Shift Button4>
	<If MouseIsOverWindowRect Strong 400 450 200 160>
		<SendLabel Curiously>
			<SaveMousePos>
			<Clickmouse Noclick Norestore>
			<Key ctrl shift h>
			<Restoremousepos>
	<else>
		<SendLabel Curiously>
			<Key Alt Ctrl Shift h>

I have it setup so the if I hit button4 at some random part of the screen, then it heals Strong. If I hit button4 while hovering over the nameplate range, then it uses mouseover healing and heals whomever I had highlighted. Similar functionality with chain-heal.

I'm going to modify it to use a leaderless setup where instead of healing Strong it heals whichever window it came from, but I'm still getting used to healter/tank/DPS... once I get that down I'll start optimizing.

[Freddie]

That's interesting. I think you're right that there's no delay this way although I would have to check the source code to be sure. You can get the same effect with plain mouse clicks by setting ClickMouse delays to 0 0. I wouldn't expect that to help, though.

it's really quite Curious ... no pun intended.

[Owltoid]

That's interesting. I think you're right that there's no delay this way although I would have to check the source code to be sure. You can get the same effect with plain mouse clicks by setting ClickMouse delays to 0 0. I wouldn't expect that to help, though.

it's really quite Curious ... no pun intended.

Hmm, I'm not sure, but this brings up an interesting point. I think the in WoW you can keybind a mouseclick to an actual key. If that's the case, then it may be better for the AoE spells to just broadcast the mouse position and a key press instead of the mouseclick. It could take care of the delay problem associated with the current mouse broadcasting.

[torytrae]

Hi guys, I am currently trying the same. The problem to start with:
I use Pitbull and can sort by name, but it excludes the current toon - that means the current toon is always on top and the group is seperatet in another frame. Now like this I dont get it sorted right on all screens. Is there any feature in pitbull I just missed I have to use?

[olipcs]

Is there any feature in pitbull I just missed I have to use?

Yep, anywhere in the 1000-settings of pitbull you can include the current toon in your normal group unitframes, so that he get also sorted by name.

[torytrae]

Thanks a lot, and thanks for the great work Owltoid and olipcs

[dariuslloyd]

Question for the OP Owltoid:

How are your toons laid out on the screen? Does the mouse over action cause your primary master to lose window focus shortly?

I run two accounts overlapping on the same monitor, the healer is a slave in the background.

The only way I can get a click or actually, even mouse over macro to work properly, is if the background window temporarily comes to the foreground. I simply cannot otherwise pass the mouse click except to the unit the background thinks the mouse is on. You can see more of what I mean here http://hotkeynet.com/phpBB3/viewtopi...6&p=5734#p5734.

Was just curious as to your setup and how you got that to work. I REALLY want remote click healing like this, but am having so much difficulty.

[Owltoid]

I play on a 37" HD screen, but I'm sitting about 6 feet away (I play in my living room so I can spend "quality" time with the g/f which seems to slow her WoW rage... she watches one TV and I play on the other). The majority of my screen is my current master and the 4 slaves are on the right side in a vertical line (can only run 3 slaves until my new computer comes in... Thursday). I do not have overlapping since it seemed to cause problems months ago when first trying to get my druids treants to work well. I would suggest trying not to have any overlapping at all.

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