MultiBox (software)

[Micah]

Updated source code in original post for anyone interested in poking around in it.

[kneeki]

If I only know how to program outside of LUA =(

[thrillhaus]

First off, let me say what a great program this is

However, I had no luck in sending middle mouse button clicks while I was focused on the second screen. Am I missing something?

[shockbeta]

In hopes micah will see this before to long, I'm trying to open up your solution file and it tells me "The selected file is not a valid Visual Studio solution file." I'm curious what IDE you use and what version if visual studio.

*EDIT*

So I just opened it with 2003 and it told me it was made with a newer version... So I don't have a newer version and am kind of partial to the versions I have. I could I guess get 2005 somehow, maybe express edition if it's still available will work. All that aside I could rebuild it in 2003 if you would be kind enough to tell me any special settings you made in the solution or project settings. Thanks in advance.

[clothboxer]

is there a current project to port this to Mac?

I have started looking into it, but i am not a programmer so yeah, it may take a while.... but i think i am on the right track.

I found bakefile from the wxWidgets site - Bakefile is cross-platform, cross-compiler native makefiles generator. It takes compiler-independent description of build tasks as input and generates native makefile (autoconf's Makefile.in, Visual C++ project, bcc makefile etc.).

I also have access to the mac edition of MetroWorks CodeWarrior 8.0, and of course have Apple's XCode installed with the newest gcc compiler.

[shockbeta]

Alright so I have both wxWidgets 2.8.0 and multibox building and running from my build. I created a 2003 project and used that to build everything with since 2005 was giving me headaches. Now I'm trying to learn wxWidgets. It's alright for the most part, but I find the lack of a graphical interface to create and place dialogs items a bit slow. I may end up porting it over to MFC by the end as I know MFC much better then wxWidgets.

[daanji]

I have a multibox feature request.

How hard would if be to make Multibox also send keystrokes to multiple WoW instances on the same computer and across the network? I would love this feature as I would not have to bother with AutoHotkey.

I have 6 years of coding experience, so I can do it myself, but I'm not too familiar with Windows Programming. Could you point me in the right direction on how to get Windows/instances and send keystrokes to them?

[shockbeta]

So I modified Multibox and have it so you can only broadcast keys you want, I'm still testing it a bit. It seems to work for the most part. There is a lot of useless bindings I show you, but it was easy and best way I could think of it quickly to not bog down multibox with lag. After I get home from work tonight sometime I'll test it a bit more then upload it for anyone who wanted that feature in.

[Buruan]

shockbeta, thanks very much for taking this on.
I really appreciate that this is being continued.

If you have the time, can you also look into the hot switching fucntionality discussed earlier in this thread.

Upon keypress i take control of Machine 1 or 2 (Mouse and Keyboard) and when pressing the same key again it goes back to normal control.

Would a be fantastic feature.

Thanks again.

[shockbeta]

That was the next thing I was trying to get in. I'm not to familiar with wxWidgets, so adding controls to the interface is becoming tedious for me. I was trying to mimic how Micah had the dynamic selection boxes to hotkey the computers. I'll come up with some way though for it to know which computer each hotkey is for. I know you don't want to rebind each time you run it. Anyways, it's all coder talk from here on so I'll spare everyone and work on it a bit. Later on tonight I'll post the new version, have a few things I need to take care of before I can get it taken care of. Oh, also only the server changed. The old verison clients can connect just fine to the new version.