MultiBox (software)

[shockbeta]

I'm not sure I udnerstand exactly what your settings are at, or what the problem is causing the problem. I'm trying to get the same effect you're having but am not able to. So I decided to make some images of settings...


As you can see here, Server is launched, then client on the server. Finally the other clients are launched. I mimiced your layout I beleive... server and client combo on left. Only client on right. I have an extra layout box on the left as I use 3 computers with it.


I used ` on the left display(display 0) and page down on the right display(display 1). The Never broadcast checkbox on this screen is to tell the server that the checked display never wants to receive broadcasted input.

The other button on the server "Broadcastable Keys" is used to tell the server which buttons never to broadcast. For now click the button and click reset button. This will check all boxes if any were unchecked allowing all keys to be sent to any client.

The mouse panning to other displays is handled by the layout selections above. You select the names of the clients as they appear to be connected. In the above scenario my computers would be laid out like this...

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__________________ _________________
| | | |
| Multibox Server | | |
| | | Multibox client|
| Multiibox Client| | |
| | | |
|_________________| |_________________|
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With my settings as they are above I can not duplicate what you're experiencing. If you still can't get it to work let me know more about your system and more about your settings and anythign else you noticed about the bug.

[sabot7726]

I think I figured some of it out. Turns out I had an additional computer name in the drop down menus that wasn't there initially. My computer name is MIGGITY (I didnt name it :P), but instead of choosing MIGGITY in the dropdown I have to choose miggity.hsd1.wa.comcast.net.

I'm pretty sure it has something to do with my network interfaces. I have a Hamachi interface installed which shows up first in my network connections, and was being used by default on the main computer's client to connect to the multiboxserver.

Once I disabled my Hamachi interface, the normal lan interface is default and the screen spanning worked.

So now the mouse moves back and forth across the screens, and the keyboard works in both places when in windows, but the keyboard does not work on the secondary computer when in WoW. I tried it in broadcast and normal mode but no dice using my desktop keystrokes on the laptop for some reason.

It lets me pan the mouse over there and back but never lets me use a keystroke when in either mode. I doublechecked and reset the settings so that nothing was excluded with no change. All keys work in windows but none work in WoW.

Thanks for your help btw

[Beastiebabe]

For all those who needed Keys excluded from being broadcast, I've made an edit to Micah's app.

Get it here
http://ultrashare.net/hosting/fl/8f7c9c6015

No fancy UI, just a plain text file where you specify which keys you dont want broadcasted. the file you want to edit is "Exclusions.txt"
If you dont know what to put in there look in "ExclusionsREF.txt".

I'm using it and it works perfect for my needs, leme know if you find a bug

[Buruan]

Shockbeta,

you you get this hosted somewhere else? I cant get it downloaded from ultrashare.

If you send it to me via EMail ill host it on my server.

buruan (at) buruan.com

[shockbeta]

Alright new multibox server. If anyone with dual monitor setup *looks at Ellay* would be kind enough to test it out for me I would appreciate it. Looking for the above scenario with mouse broadcasting on.

Micah's awesome Multibox modified: http://ultrashare.net/hosting/fl/d3c104343e

I just tested that link and it worked. I just got really busy at work with a few projects so I haven't been able to do anything more with multibox currently. If I get some time this weekend I'll see what more I can do with it.

[Buruan]

SB,

i finally got the download done. Works perfectly for the Keybroadcasting.

(a select/deselect all option would be nice to have)

As for mouse broadcasting, I have a hotkey to enable mouse broadcasting, both machines receive mouse movement.

The server machine doesnt receive clicks (which is fine), but dragging the mouse while having left or right button clicked (to adjust camera angles and movement directions) doesnt work, it gets all messed up thereby making it impossible to control the toon.

Any idea?

[shockbeta]

(a select/deselect all option would be nice to have)

What do you mean?

The server machine doesnt receive clicks (which is fine), but dragging the mouse while having left or right button clicked (to adjust camera angles and movement directions) doesnt work, it gets all messed up thereby making it impossible to control the toon.

Any idea?

Think server doesn't receive clicks as you have the Never broadcast ticked in the Key bindings window. If you don't then I'm not sure why it wouldn't.

As for the turning characters with the mouse. In theory it should work perfectly... IF you have same res on both monitors. Notice the "In theory" There can be many problems that would cause this to fail. I haven't looked into it much as my primary thought on using this was targeting areas for AOE spells. Even with that it's still a little off, but they're AOE so close is close enough.

Checked the code and I beleive the problem is both monitors regardless of resolution have 65535 screen space. So a Higher res monitor will allow the mouse to move further. Since moving your character isn't dependent on mouse postion, but more of a sensitivity I Think that is the problem.

I use relative movement for the server, and exact position for passing the clients. So the difference in those could cause the problems. I'm testing on two instances of WoW and it doesn't seem to be consistent differences. I.e. I start looking forward pan 90 to the right, pan 90 back to the left. Should be in same spot as I started on both, but I'm not. I'll keep messing with it see if I can get it working properly.

[Buruan]

(a select/deselect all option would be nice to have)

What do you mean?

In the screen where you can chose which keys to broadcast, it would be nice to have an option to select all keys or none of them.
I only want to broadcast a few and it took me a while to deselect the rest.
Its no big deal, but if its easy to add, why not?

As for the mouse, i dont know, the resultion is the same, it just doesnt work at all.

The mouse moves fine on the screen but WoW seems to get the information all wrong and its impossible to use.

But i am cool with just the keyboard for now.

[shockbeta]

Looked more into the code, and tested it a bit more. It seems the absolute movement isn't the best for handling range with mouse. I.e. click and move mouse to get a distane it's traveled. If you move the mosue really slow you'll see it stutters a lot on the off screens. This is because it's passing absolute positioning. But this absolute positioning is what's giving the same relative mouse position. I can try to get them both to work as I believe they both should be possible, but I'm not sure if I'll be able to.

[Buruan]

Hey SB.

Can you start a new thread for your modified MB?
I think new people on this board wont read this whole discussion here and might miss your download link.