GameCommanderPro

[Ualaa]

With Keyclone, pardon my poor images..

I bind a command, or hotkey to each region.



1111111111112222
1111111111112222
1111111111113333
1111111111113333
1111111111114444
1111111111114444


If I press Control F1, the toon in region 1, is brought to that window (which is the default start position).

If I press Control F2, then it swaps the large window...

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2222222222221111
2222222222223333
2222222222223333
2222222222224444
2222222222224444

ISBoxer does something similar, but the active region is large, and instead of swapping, that portion displays your desktop background. So you know which region is active at a glance, because that region shows your background.

So it might look like (I guess this one would be for a 3-box, not a 4-box):

3333333333331111
3333333333331111
3333333333332222
3333333333332222
333333333333
333333333333


How does your software handle (or does it), a picture in picture option?

[Aarelan]

First let me clarify that you dont need to zoom in order to make a character "active", just simply mouse over.
If you do want to use a key to zoom a window, do something like this:

<<Barelan>>
Max
This will zoom my hunter
The command to un-zoom:
Std

You could then assign whichever key you would like to these commands.

You could even just use one key with a "Get" command:

Get, ZoomWho, who would you like to zoom 1-5
Chan %ZoomWho%
Max

This would ask you which window to zoom.

A Slightly more sophisticated version of this would be:

Get, ZoomWho, who would you like to zoom 1-5, 6 to un-zoom
if %ZoomWho% = 6
Std
else
Chan %ZoomWho%
Max
endif

This would allow you to have the un-zoom on the same key.

[Moorea]

Competition is good to improve innovation but I'm curious to why as of late so many people are creating new commercial tools around mboxing - it doesn't seem like a growth market; even with great ease of use and more powerful computers, I don't see many people paying for 5 wow subscription - what's the business plan behind those ?

This behind said I'll be happy to test new software, I have experience with Keyclone and HotKeyNet - just would need some assurance this isn't a fly by night key logging/account harvesting operation :-) (or a clone of the evil one)

[Aarelan]

How does your software handle (or does it), a picture in picture option?

Our zoom is like the second option(ie. zooms not switches). We do however support multiple layouts which can be instantly recalled, so it would take a few minutes to setup but would actualy give you greater flexibility. For instance you could have one window layout, for each combat situation(ie. Tank N Spank, Caster Duel, Complexing Healing).

[rahven32]

How much time does it take to switch window layouts? Reason I ask is I tend to have my main really big and the "slaves" really small basically unplayable but big enough to see that they are where they are supposed to be and facing the right way. If my main dies the time it takes to switch to the other layout can be very important.

[Aarelan]

Competition is good to improve innovation but I'm curious to why as of late so many people are creating new commercial tools around mboxing - it doesn't seem like a growth market; even with great ease of use and more powerful computers, I don't see many people paying for 5 wow subscription - what's the business plan behind those ?

This behind said I'll be happy to test new software, I have experience with Keyclone and HotKeyNet - just would need some assurance this isn't a fly by night key logging/account harvesting operation :-) (or a clone of the evil one)

Originally GameCommanderPro wasn't designed for commercial use. I designed it for personal use. It was because other people saw the product and liked it, that we are releasing it for general use. The business plan isn't to make millions of dollars, rather to make a product that is capable of supporting its own maintenance and support costs.

Not sure how I can answer the key logging thing, other than to say that GCP doesn't do it, and that we're good honest members of society.

GCP only needs write access to it's data directory, and only writes during user requested operations, so it would be fairly easy to monitor that it behaves honestly. It does attempt to open a listen port, which you can block with your firewall if you feel uncomfortouble. This port is only used when you interconnect multiple copies of GCP. We'll be releasing that feature soon, but for the moment you can leave the port blocked.

Phil

[Aarelan]

How much time does it take to switch window layouts? Reason I ask is I tend to have my main really big and the "slaves" really small basically unplayable but big enough to see that they are where they are supposed to be and facing the right way. If my main dies the time it takes to switch to the other layout can be very important.

Time taken is entirely dependent on your graphics card. The actual command takes GCP milliseconds to process, and it's just up to your system to handle the command. On our primary testing machine (running vista with a Nvidia GTX260) all zoom commands are instant, however on our secondary machine (XP with Nvidia GT8500) the zoom takes a few seconds. All of the other equipment on the two machines is the same.

[rahven32]

Does the program handle processor affinity? or does it? Sorry if I'm asking to many questions lol. I would love to see a video of this in action.

[Aarelan]

Does the program handle processor affinity? or does it? Sorry if I'm asking to many questions lol. I would love to see a video of this in action.

Short answer; no. We did some trials with our test machines (2 of which are quad cores, 1 of which is dual core) and found no significant difference, so decided not to include it. If there's real need, it's not a problem for us to add it (in case you're a techie, we already acquire the process handle for some features, so this shouldn't take very long).

We've actually found that most of our machines hardly hit the processor at all, it's actually the graphics cards that determines how well multiple copies of WoW run.

*edit*
Forgot to mention, we were planning to do videos today, however we seem to have had a premature launch :P. Videos will be posted soon, we plan to add tons of videos to our getting started sections, and plan to do a vlog sort of thing.

[rahven32]

When running mine if I don't set the affinity it will only use 2 cores. I've used keyclone and currently using HKN. It looks like your program is a mix of the two which I find pretty interesting. Being able to script makes it very powerful and the gui lets me visualize better. Have you guys made any video's? I'm pretty interested in seeing it work.