Oh. I suppose I should explain how to use horizontal spanning feature.Use the pull-down menus to enter that computer twice (the one with dual-monitors).
So mine looks like:
Comp1 Comp2 Comp3
Comp4 Comp5 Comp5
Notice that Comp5 is listed twice, that is how it knows there are two and to handle it as such.
Just wanted to have the ability to bind the broadcast keyboard toggle key to a mouse button. That way I can click mousebutton 5 on my mouse to toggle keyboard broadcasting on and off. Just would be nice to be able to control broadcasting at a thumb press rather then changing my regular keybinding layout.
aaah!
Only a few more hours then I will head home and test this.
Thank you, Micah!
I've been pretty busy lately but I'll try and take a look at the code this weekend to see how hard it would be to add something like that.Originally Posted by shockbeta
Hi Micah,Oh. I suppose I should explain how to use horizontal spanning feature.
So mine looks like:
Comp1 Comp2 Comp3
Comp4 Comp5 Comp5
Notice that Comp5 is listed twice, that is how it knows there are two and to handle it as such.
I have tested this and it does work - a bit. I encountered two issues that appear to be connected.
1) When attempting to leave the primary screen, comp5 in your example, sometimes the mouse cursor will not go. I have noticed that now, after setting up as you show it above I also get client disconnections. I find it interesting to note that I had no client disconnections when setting up MultiBox to 1 by 1 screen and choosing the primary computer as that screen, effectively disabling use of the primary systems mouse on the client computers. Therefore I doubt that this is a network issue.
2) If it goes and I return it to the primary screen, the mouse cursor moves sluggishly a couple of seconds behind where it should actually be. This state happens for about 5-6 seconds. If at that time I try to move the mouse cursor anywhere, I risk crossing the screen boundary and creating more problems.
Both issues are pretty much disaster when fighting. =/
Instead of comp1, comp2, comp3; comp4, comp5, comp5 I have set Comp5 and live without the mouse now. Naturally prefer MultiBox as full solution. I am reluctant to run Synergy just for the mouse.
Just keeping you informed, I dont mean to nag you to solve my problems =]
Cheers, Steph.
Are you running a 3x2 monitor array or some other layout (hard to tell in your image).
Just noticed another thing, I use the G15 keyboard. It has media controls on it, but they fail to function while using multibox. So here I go with another feature requestWould it be possible to allow the media controls be sent to the server computer? I don't know how you coded it, and how difficult, if at all possible, to always send the media controls to the server computer. If you could work that in it would be greatly appreciated
This has happened a few times so far tonight, and I'm not sure what causes it. I lose the ability to type anything on the computer with the server on it. I'm not sure exactly how I get it to this state, but the server computer will not accept typing, and sometimes they simulate wrong button presses. Everytime it's happened though I am unable to type in the chat window of wow. I can mouse over to the other computer and it works fine. I'll see if I can figure out what exactly it is I do when this happens and let you know.
The end result is I can still play the game fine, all my hotkeys work, and everything brings up and acts like it should, until you open a chat window. Then it doesn't accept anything except an enter to close it. Also the esc key doesn't exit menu, but opens the windows start menu. If I shut down multibox the problem doesn't go away, it persists until I restart WoW. It seems if I shut Multibox down and I wait about a minute it all goes back to normal without having to restart the computer or WoW. I still haven't figured out what I do to begin this behavior yet.
It sounds like a conflict between the keyboard drivers and MultiBox and unfortunately without such a keyboard it would be very hard to figure out what is going wrong.
As for the not being able to type, try pressing cntrl, alt and shift once each to see if it solves the problem. Sometimes those keys can get stuck in the pressed state and will cause some wierd problems.
If anyone knows exactly how (on a programming level) the G15 works it could help solve the problem with it.Does anyone else with a G15 have trouble?
Still haven't gotten input to freeze on me like it did before. I have another media keyboard, and it never dawned on me to check how that keyboards media controls behave with Multibox, as you probably already know, it works seemlessly with Multibox. So your assumption on the G15 was correct. I will try asking on some G15 forums about how it handles the media controls and see if anyone knows how to get something working. After I find out I'll let you know so we can see if it's feesible to do easily. I do know there is an LCD dev kit for the G15 and you're able to remap what the buttons do, so that may be a good thing for me to look at. Anyways I'll let you know what I find out.
Alright so the G15 is a USB keyboard, I'm starting to think that has something to do with the media controls not being passed to Multibox properly. Apparantly USB uses a different standard possibly then ps/2 keyboards. I could be completely wrong on this, but it's just what I've been reading. I do know that all "extended keys" come back as 255. It's been so long since I've messed with scancodes I can't recall how to get what was actually pressed. I had found this post that is about the g15 and the media keys though
http://www.g15forums.com/forum/showthread.php?t=558
I'll keep looking into it. I did have an idea on how to utilize the lcd with Multibox. I have a simple lcd app that flashes the screen when I want it to, currently if bIsBroadcasting the program flashes Broadcasting every few seconds. Not sure if that's handy for anyone, but if it was maybe we could get Micah to add it to his build.
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Alright, so I feel stupid now. I had multibox on this whole time while I was trying to poll keyboard input and codes. So without multibox on all VK codes are correct. I downloaded your old source and going to try and look at it to see if I can see whats up. If I can see what my problem is I'll let you know.
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Just poured over the code. I have no way of easily testing this, but is it possible that since you send the flag KEYEVENTF_SCANCODE it somehow isn't able to poll the proper key from wScan. I do notice with all media controls on either of the USB keyboards I have it returns 80ff. Although when I use my ps/2 media keyboard it returns proper codes and behaves normally. I can see the benefit to using KEYEVENTF_SCANCODE if you had mapped keys differently on seperate computers. I think that's the purpose of it at least, but if we could get it to use the vk code instead of the scan code it may prove to solve the problem. Of course it could be wrong but at least we would know.
I've been up entirely too long now, so I could be way off base with this, but my reasoning for it is simply because they're usb keyboards that are failing. I had read USB scancodes are different then ps/2. but I could of been confused on that form everything I've been reading. It makes sense as every usb keyboard I've tested has failed, while all ps/2 have worked. Anyways, if you have time, Micah, maybe we could check it out.
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