MultiBox (software)

[daanji]

Any chance of getting you to add a Keybroad caster to multiple wow instances on the same computer? It doesn't have to be fancy. If I have 3-5 instances of WoW on the same computer, then the keystrokes would be sent to each instance.

[Buruan]

I dont think that is easily possible.
From my understanding all multibox does is simulating keystrokes, which by default go to the window that currently has focus.

For this to work a whole lot more of complicated routines have to be added to send keystrokes to different windows.

It might be possible, but it also would move multibox more into the gray area where warden might disagree with it.

Maybe some coder can elaborate better.

[shockbeta]

Buruan is right. Multibox is a simple hook program. It hooks to the keyboard and mouse and captures all input prior to sending to the OS. To code that in would be a lot more code that a lot of people actually won't ever use. I'm trying my best to keep runtime code to a minimal on multibox as to avoid any lag with keypresses. What you could do is use another type of software that allows you to send inpout to more then one window at the same time on one machine. I'm sure someone on the forum has mentioned one before. I can't recall the post or name of the software they used, but I remember reading something about it. Just poke around on the forum and you'll find it.

As Buruan has stated, right now there is nothing illegal in WoW sense to using multibox. It only hooks the keyboard and mouse and then sends them to all connected clients. I'm sure you could make it send input to all windows on one machine as well and it wouldn't be illegal, but it does add a lot more complicated calls and a lot more code. With me not even needing that feature I won't be adding that myself to multibox.

[darkangael]

shockbeta you da man!

[darkangael]

Alright so with using multibox I find it useful in many ways, not just gaming. I have 3 of my 4 computers linked up with multibox currently. I only dual box right now so the third is more like a internet, chat, guides, whatever else machine. With that being said when I'm dual boxing I use broadcast at times and with only 2 of the 3 in game it didn't really allow me to use the third with multibox. I decided I wanted a feature to disable broadcasting entirely to a certain display. I added checkboxes below the display shortcuts to check if you never wanted it to receive broadcasted keys. As it is now when you have broadcasting on the checked displays will never receive keyboard input. You can mouse over to it and it still won't receive broadcsated input. If you toggle broadcasting off then it will receive input normally. I was considering making it so if that display has mouse focus it gets the input and others don't, but I'm on the wall about that. As sometimes it's still nice to be able to sent the other comptuers input while that one has mouse focus.

Anyways, if anyone else would like that I'll post a new server.exe. If not then I'll wait until mroe features and fixes are in it before releasing it.

I think that's a great idea, but am happy to wait for a release

[darkangael]

One problem I have with the mouse switching hotkey is this:

Set VK_NUMPAD1 to screen 1
Set VK_NUMPAD2 to screen 2

Pressing numpad2 will switch to screen 2 then send a 2 key to screen 2
Pressing numpad1 will switch to screen 1 then send a 1 to screen 1

I would think that not sending the hotkey to the screen you are switching to would be a better option.

[thrillhaus]

Not sure if this was addressed or not, but currently, mouse clicks (not right/left click) do not send to another screen that you've pulled your mouse over to. Middle click, and side buttons (bound to Win4 / Win5)

[sabot7726]

I was going to write a post about how annoying it is for these file download sites to artificially inflate wait times / file queues whilst spamming people with offers for a "premium membership".

And since the files we're downloading are less than a couple megs, I was going to offer to grab dualboxsoftware.com or something and just host it myself with no waiting since I doubt there's jillions of people cool enough like us to be into dual-boxing, yet.

But then I realized thats its 3am and I'm just tired so I decided not to rant and have people thinking I'm a ninnymugginswhinerpants.

[sabot7726]

Hi Shockbeta thanks for all your efforts. You too Micah

I have a couple possible bugs, but perhaps I'm missing out because I'm not a coder and can't just read the code.

I have a desktop and a laptop from left to right. The desktop on my left is the main machine running the server and client, the laptop on my right runs only the client.

I downloaded and ran the latest link, I'm assuming I overwrite the first multiboxserver.exe I already had so I did. It seems if I create and then use a hotkey to manipulate only the laptop, it switches roles and assumes the laptop is running the server. I.E., when I disable all broadcasting and even if I hit the hotkey to be controlling my main, I can only control my secondary laptop once I switch to it. In my case I had ` set to control the left and page down set to control the right. If I hit page down I can only ever control the right unless I turn broadcasting back on. But that only works while broadcasting is on, once I turn it off I can only control my laptop even though my main desktop is the server.

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Secondly, for a split second I was able to pan from one display to the next just by moving across the right edge of my left screen. I know this is what people use synergy for but I had no idea it was built into multibox, even after reading all 8 pages of this post so far

Is there a way I can turn that back on? I've tried tweaking and messing around with settings but there's really only so many I can manipulate and nothing seems to work.

In the server setup I have MAIN on the left and LAPTOP on the right. I'm assuming its supposed to automatically pan to the other display if broadcasting is off but it's not. Probably missing something here.

Perhaps someone can post a couple paragraphs as a HOWTO since there's no docs that I could find for multibox

In all likeliness I'm a moron and there's an easy fix for both of my issues, thanks for the neat software. Just gotta get it working for me.

[sabot7726]

Sorry, is there a way to pick which network adapter it tries to use as default? I have to disable my hamachi and activesync adapters before it tries to use my actual lan nic.