Introducing Plexer for Mac

[TheBigBB]

I've come across some issues with the program, although it's still amazing and these issues are easy to work with.

I consistently see, after a long period of use, Plexer start sending some windows duplicate keystrokes. So I type in for everyone to do "/use hearthstone", and one of them will do "///uuussseee hhheeeaaarrrttthhhssstttooonnnee" instead. I close the program and reopen it. I'm just concerned that this will look like something illegal if someone from Blizzard ever saw it, besides the minor annoyance of restarting the program. It's not that big of a deal for actual playing at least.

[owensd]

@lacitpo

I'll look into adding #1 and #2. #3 might take more work than I want to put into it right now... the problem there is I'd want to have it position the windows correctly too and I'm not sure I want to invest the UI time for that at the moment.

@theBigBB... that's really strange. If you toggle plexing on/off does that fix the issue? Do you toggle plexing on/off frequently? I'm just trying to think what could go wrong in the code for that situation to occur... I'll play around with it and see if I can't come up with a way to prevent that from happening. Can't say I've seen it myself though.

Thanks everyone!

[yaki]

I consistently see, after a long period of use, Plexer start sending some windows duplicate keystrokes. So I type in for everyone to do "/use hearthstone", and one of them will do "///uuussseee hhheeeaaarrrttthhhssstttooonnnee" instead.

Sounds like it caught the zombie plague from the Wrath launch.

Bbbrrraaaiiinnnsss...

[dozigden]

I've seen the multiple keypresses thing too - however it only seems to happen with me after client crashes and fairly rarely at that.

[lacitpo]

RE: Crash Problem

I experienced something that might be related. I had one of my wow clients crash, and then try to crash again last night after playing for a while. Restarting plexer fixed this problem. If I can find a way to reliably reproduce this problem i'll report back

RE: escape key

It's addable, but you have to move your focus to the game window. If you have plexer selected and you try to add space bar, or escape to whitelist or blacklist, it cancels the key add dialogue. This is a bit confusing and maybe could be fixed by requiring that the 'done' button be clicked rather than allowing key presses to end the key adding dialogue box.

[owensd]

OK... Plexer might be getting duplicate windows in the app list when you restart WoW after the crash. I might be able to fix that fairly easily.

Yeah, as soon as you told me the escape key doesn't work I knew what the problem was. I'll try and push a fix our this weekend.

[owensd]

Version 1.0.4 is out!

Fixed the issue with the escape key.
Fixed the issue with the space key (just a rendering problem, the key should have been there).
Potential fix for the crash issue.

[lacitpo]

Love the active development. Thanks for the update and bug fixes.

[owensd]

I'm looking at making a bigger version update. This is what I have for items that people want:

- Networking
- Start up applications, size, and position windows
- Growl support
- More customization for keys instead of just the drop-down

I'll be taking new feature requests under consideration. So if you have any, let me know.

[Jayne]

Just want to pitch in and say that Plexer is awesome! Could finally move to my Mac for boxing! Looking forward for the "start up applications, size and position" part though - it's the only thing I've been missing so far.

Cheers!