New multibox tool; Ideal functions?

[Freddie]

hotkeynet is already perfect - minus the phone home, etc..

Thanks for the kind words!

Starting with today's build (200):

-- HotkeyNet no longer calls home.

-- HotkeyNet no longer requires an Internet connection.

-- HotkeyNet no longer expires.

[Owltoid]

Thanks for the kind words!

Starting with today's build (200):

-- HotkeyNet no longer calls home.

-- HotkeyNet no longer requires an Internet connection.

-- HotkeyNet no longer expires.

Why did you make those changes, Freddie?

[Freddie]

Why did you make those changes, Freddie?

Originally I put those things in the program in case one day I began selling it. The idea was to prevent free old versions of the program from getting passed around and competing with future for-sale versions.

But HotkeyNet has been free for two years and its user numbers haven't grown high enough for me to want to bother charging for it. If it hasn't happened by now, I don't think it's ever going to happen.

The authorization scheme has always been a nuisance. It prevented people who lack an Internet connection from using it. It often prevented people from using the program in corporations. (HotkeyNet gets used in companies. It's not just a multiboxing program.) It scared some people off because they worried that the program contained malware.

If the call-home code isn't ever going to be of benefit to me, and if it annoys users, what's the point? There isn't any. So I removed it today.

Also, today's build was number 200. That's a nice round number, and I wanted to do something special to celebrate. Over the last two years there have been some special people (including you) who contributed tremendously to the program by testing and reporting bugs and making suggestions. The best way to celebrate is to do something tangible to show my appreciation for you folks, and this is what I thought of.

[Natch]

Thanks for the kind words!

Starting with today's build (200):

-- HotkeyNet no longer calls home.

-- HotkeyNet no longer requires an Internet connection.

-- HotkeyNet no longer expires.

ALL HAIL THE FREDDIE!
(and thanks for an awesome program)

[thinus]

These are a few of my favorite things:

• Separate login configurations (for single battle net account support)
• Configurable window locations and sizes for multiple sessions on the same machine
• Fast swapping of windows
• Three broadcast modes: Full, Configured and None that controls which keypresses or mouse operations are broadcast
• *Macro export, import, cloning (probably better as a WoW addon)
• *Keybind export, import, cloning (probably better as a WoW addon)
• Network broadcasting

* Not sure if this is possible since the macros and keybinds went server side. Can you still load configuration files?

Mubox looks interesting. I'll try and get it building locally and play with it a bit over the weekend.