Introducing Plexer for Mac

[shadewalker]

Characters continuing to run off tells me you aren't really following the norm for character movement, which is to use the /follow command for your slaves.

(sorry for the delay, haven't checked the forums in a while).

I use a /follow macro on my slaves to follow.

The problem shows up mostly when I want to stop the slaves from following my main. If I strafe or use a movement key to break the follow (I don't know of any other way to break follow), it appears the slaves sometimes receive the "key down" event but not "key up" event for the movement key.

I can then use a follow command to try and collect my slaves, but they keep running in circles due to what appears to me as the initial movement key still being depressed. I don't know for sure if this is what is happening, just my guess at it.

I use "shift" and "ctrl" modifiers a lot, and have black listed all the movement combinations with those mod keys. I'm not sure if that has anything to do with the issues I am having or not.

[skarlot]

Characters running off into the distance is a Blizzard bug. it occurs on a daily basis and is a potential wiper.

I have posted it on their bug forums like 2 or 3 times now but they continue to ignore it after 2 + years. I even linked to a thread here showing dozens of people who reported it.

I am absolutely positive it is because it occurs in keyclone and in the programs I wrote and I know exactly how they work of course.

Blizzard are just too slack to fix it. My last post to them was not polite but its a real shame that a silly bug like this gets in the way of game play. I think the only way around it is to macro some additional movement keypresses like 5 ms after you break follow. Just enough to counter the bug, but not enough to get in the way of casting.

World of Warcraft - English (NA) Forums -> Follow Bug and running into oblivion

[shadewalker]

I have had characters run off while using keyclone as well, but just tapping any movement key would stop the slave characters.

When i use Plexor and my slaves begin running off, it takes more than simply tapping a key. The only way found to stop the movement is to bring the slave window to the front and cycle through all my movement keys.

I don't know maybe my plexor is messed up or there is something wrong with my computer set up.

[Tanntyn]

I'm no coder, but I've heard that sometimes, to fix one bug you create another. the question is, which is the least of the 2. This might be the case and is why it hasn't been fixed yet.

Characters running off into the distance is a Blizzard bug. it occurs on a daily basis and is a potential wiper.

I have posted it on their bug forums like 2 or 3 times now but they continue to ignore it after 2 + years. I even linked to a thread here showing dozens of people who reported it.

I am absolutely positive it is because it occurs in keyclone and in the programs I wrote and I know exactly how they work of course.

Blizzard are just too slack to fix it. My last post to them was not polite but its a real shame that a silly bug like this gets in the way of game play. I think the only way around it is to macro some additional movement keypresses like 5 ms after you break follow. Just enough to counter the bug, but not enough to get in the way of casting.

World of Warcraft - English (NA) Forums -> Follow Bug and running into oblivion

[trentburns]

I've not seen much if any activity on plexer in over a year. Is it still active and supported? Anyone know if network support was ever added?

[owensd]

I've not seen much if any activity on plexer in over a year. Is it still active and supported? Anyone know if network support was ever added?

Hey, I've been away from WoW for a while and making a bit of a comeback. It's still active, though I haven't gotten any emails of any issues that people are having. I've been contemplating adding in networking support, but honestly, there have not been a ton of sales for the product. Not sure if people just don't know about it or just don't care.

[CausticSaint]

Hey, I've been away from WoW for a while and making a bit of a comeback. It's still active, though I haven't gotten any emails of any issues that people are having. I've been contemplating adding in networking support, but honestly, there have not been a ton of sales for the product. Not sure if people just don't know about it or just don't care.

I care!

With the discounts on WoW for the holidays, I've been looking at picking up a 3rd set of software. I used to use HKN on a PC, but now i use my Macs pretty much exclusively for WoW, so I came back here looking for an OSX solution.

The machine I use the most is a MacBook Air (1.7GHz i5 with 4GB/128SSD) and it runs two copies of WoW just fine. Does Plexer play nice with Lion?

[owensd]

I care!

With the discounts on WoW for the holidays, I've been looking at picking up a 3rd set of software. I used to use HKN on a PC, but now i use my Macs pretty much exclusively for WoW, so I came back here looking for an OSX solution.

The machine I use the most is a MacBook Air (1.7GHz i5 with 4GB/128SSD) and it runs two copies of WoW just fine. Does Plexer play nice with Lion?

Yeah, I've not had anyone report any issues with Lion.

I've started doing some work to see how hard it would be to get reliable networking working. I'll keep you all posted if you're interested.

[Norrin]

Hey Owen

MultiLaunchBox supports Network.
If you want to look at the code for that, and use what you need let me know.
I would be more than happy to share it with you.

[CausticSaint]

There are TWO choices for OSX boxing? O.o

I'm not looking to do any serious dungeoneering or BGs or anything. I just want something that'll handle keysending between 2 apps, like what I was used to with HKN on PC back when I was into it. My main use will be leveling a pair of hunters (they were fun to MB in the past) to boost my current lowbie up to 80 so he can be a decent farming toon. I'll also be using the grantable levels to jump a bank alt up to 80 so she can finish off her JC, giving me double the number of tokens to shop with.

Both Plexer and MultiLaunchBox look like they'd meet my needs for running 2 copies of WoW on one Mac. I'll grab the trial of both this weekend and see how they go.

Owen, thanks for the tip on Lion.

Norrin, thanks for letting me know about other options.