New multibox tool; Ideal functions?

[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.

[Mubox]

I'd like free as in open source free as opposed to free as in free beer (hotkeynet) as for free beer hotkeynet is already perfect - minus the phone home, etc... - it seems Mubox's is what I want ?

Mubox - can one svn sync that codepex thing and type "make" and obtain a working executable from your sources ? what dev env you need ? (VC++? something free ?)

CodePlex offers SVN access, but there is no makefile. Mubox was written using Visual Studio 2008, .NET Framework 3.5 sp1 and, thus, can be built from a command line using MSBuild.exe (standard build tool, ships with the SDK or VStudio editions.) You should be able to download the source via SVN, as a ZIP from the codeplex website, or other means, load the solution file using Visual C# Express (a free IDE) or similar, and run directly under a debugger. Mubox is a C# application that utilizes WPF for the UI.

"MSBuild" will eventually replace 'make' according to Microsoft, I haven't seen 'make' since probably 1997 on a Unix-variant OS.

[Moorea]

"MSBuild" will eventually replace 'make' according to Microsoft, I haven't seen 'make' since probably 1997 on a Unix-variant OS.

According to microsoft linux doesn't exist, neither does firefox or ipods :-)

[Mystic]

Did anyone happen to grab the source code for MuBox a while back when it was still available from the source repository at CodePlex, still have it, and would be willing to forward on to me?

On trying to track it down I see it no longer exists on CodePlex, I am assuming because Shaun (the author) now works as of April this year, as a developer for Blizzard.

[Akoko]

A two-step key, like interact with target and then walk backwards, so that casters can face their targets.

[staolog]

Did anyone happen to grab the source code for MuBox a while back when it was still available from the source repository at CodePlex, still have it, and would be willing to forward on to me?

On trying to track it down I see it no longer exists on CodePlex, I am assuming because Shaun (the author) now works as of April this year, as a developer for Blizzard.

If you are interrested in continuing the nice work Shaun started why not contact him? =)
I'd love to see someone taking care of Mubox as I really liked it. Even a complete noob like me was able to use it, hehe.

What needs to be done is:

e.g. development and coordination, updates to the add-on for new WoW releases, etc

If that's not what you wanted to do perhaps there's someone else who'd like to?

[Mubox]

*casts L5 thread resurrection from the beyondness*

When I went to work for Blizzard I was prohibited from working on Mubox as a conflict of interest. Their legal department danced around the issue, but made it clear that it was a conflict of interest being an employee *and* releasing multiboxing tools.

How, I don't know. A cease and desist was issued to CodePlex operators and the source was taken offline. I remained employed with Blizzard for approximately two years. Mubox is currently stored to CodePlex in its original form (up to the point development stopped in 2010.)

However, I've resurrected the project since and the latest version is hosted on github (http://github.com/wilson0x4d/Mubox) While I don't spend nearly as much time on it as I used to I've added support for Guild Wars 2 and User Extensions. it may not do what you need, it may not work for you at all, but it works for what I need it to do. I no longer play WoW (Blizzard killed that interest for me) and so the add-in support languished and died as a result.

As I have time I will continue with development. I still check the coordinator mailbox (mubox - @ - mrshaunwilson.com), just don't expect an immediate response (I only check 2-3 times a year, like on holidays.)

Enjoy.

[luxlunae]

Interesting. I think the price of ISboxer has gone up since 2010 so there might be a greater demand for a free multi-featured program than there was several years ago.