A guide to IS Boxer (Long)

[Lyonheart]

http://isboxer.com/index.php/guides/18-changing-console-hotkey

thank you!

[Mercurio]

So... finally trying to get ISBoxer running (and of course used your name in the referral section, Ualaa).

It looks like a fairly straightforward piece of software to set up, once you take a few hours to familiarize yourself with the terms used and things.

I have a couple of questions:

1) I'm trying to set the software up to run on two machines. Downloaded ISBoxer and InnerSpace on both, followed the Multiple PC guide, recognized the other computer as it should have, successfully copied all my settings from my main computer to the 2nd one, set up a team for each computer and included the 2nd computer's team in the "Also launch" section of the first team, selected the correct computer from the drop-down on team 2's "what computer to launch on" area. Again, copied all settings over successfully. However, when I launch team one, it brings up those 5 windows on my main computer normally, but nothing happens on computer 2.
One thing I thought was intersting was that when I went into Window Layouts and my 2nd team's Regions, the right bottom drop-down where you change from <pre-defined computer> would never keep the setting when I changed it to computer 2's screen from the drop down. It always goes back to <pre-defined computer>. Not sure if that is related to the problem, but it might be.

2) This one is far less important, but the slave windows look like ass. It appears they are being emmulated by ISBoxer and so they are very fuzzy and text is impossible to read. Once in a blue moon I had this problem with Keyclone where one window would look crappy and I'd have to reload it, but all slave windows have always been ugly with ISBoxer. I'm using the same exact region placements and sizes with ISBoxer as with Keyclone. When I make any of my slaves the Hot Region, they come to the main window area looking very crisp as they should, but all windows in the slave areas aren't crisp at all.

Any suggestions?

Thanks,

Mercurio

[thefunk]

i get 2) regularly, i basically click the icon on the taskbar to minimise and reclick and they readjust ok. Either that or you could close that window down and then reload the character set, which apparently only loads the windows that are not loaded (not tested personally)

not sure on 1)

[Lax]

So... finally trying to get ISBoxer running (and of course used your name in the referral section, Ualaa).

It looks like a fairly straightforward piece of software to set up, once you take a few hours to familiarize yourself with the terms used and things.

I have a couple of questions:

1) I'm trying to set the software up to run on two machines. Downloaded ISBoxer and InnerSpace on both, followed the Multiple PC guide, recognized the other computer as it should have, successfully copied all my settings from my main computer to the 2nd one, set up a team for each computer and included the 2nd computer's team in the "Also launch" section of the first team, selected the correct computer from the drop-down on team 2's "what computer to launch on" area. Again, copied all settings over successfully. However, when I launch team one, it brings up those 5 windows on my main computer normally, but nothing happens on computer 2.
One thing I thought was intersting was that when I went into Window Layouts and my 2nd team's Regions, the right bottom drop-down where you change from <pre-defined computer> would never keep the setting when I changed it to computer 2's screen from the drop down. It always goes back to <pre-defined computer>. Not sure if that is related to the problem, but it might be.

2) This one is far less important, but the slave windows look like ass. It appears they are being emmulated by ISBoxer and so they are very fuzzy and text is impossible to read. Once in a blue moon I had this problem with Keyclone where one window would look crappy and I'd have to reload it, but all slave windows have always been ugly with ISBoxer. I'm using the same exact region placements and sizes with ISBoxer as with Keyclone. When I make any of my slaves the Hot Region, they come to the main window area looking very crisp as they should, but all windows in the slave areas aren't crisp at all.

Any suggestions?

Thanks,

Mercurio

1. You came into the chat room but i'm not clear on whether you got what I said or not:
[14:56] <Lax> Mercurio: on both PCs, right click IS and select Console
[14:59] <Lax> Mercurio: during the launch process, the Console in the uplink window on the two PCs details what theyre trying to do
[14:59] <Lax> Mercurio: so on the main PC you should see it try to connect to the second PC (and output on the second PC if it connects)
[15:00] <Lax> Mercurio: if it connects but nothing happens after that on the second PC, then the problem may be that the Uplink Name in ISBoxer for the second does not match the actual name in the IS Configuration window on that PC
[15:01] <Lax> if you see ISBoxer try to start launching a character set on the second PC after the connection, then the problem would be indicated in the console on the second PC

1.5. your window layout stores the screens, pre-defining that part of the Computer inside the layout. So the next time you open it, it'll always say pre-defined

2. see http://www.dual-boxing.com/showthread.php?t=30046

[Mercurio]

Lax,

After rebooting my slave computer and starting ISBoxer up, Windows Firewall popped up and asked if I wanted to block ISBoxer. After selecting No ISBoxer seems to launch both computer's accounts just fine.

I'm sure I'll have more questions down the road, but for now, thanks for the help!

[Mercurio]

More problems.

InnerSpace is really flakey. It comes up with an error and closes itself about half the times I try to open up my 10 accounts. It would typically open up 1-2 windows each time I tried to start a team, then die, then open up 1-2 more, then die, but I could usually get it to eventually open them all up if I kept restarting InnerSpace, though sometimes I had to reboot for InnerSpace to do anything at all. (BTW, I sent on my error messages that are auto-generated each time, hope that helps you).

I say "would" above, because that's when it was still detecting my other computer. Now I'm seeing an all-time low in terms of connection because I don't even have the option to "Export all to <All Computers>" when I right-click on Computers. For the first time, it isn't recognizing the other computer at all (not like my previous problem when it just wouldn't recognize it when starting up teams). I quadruple-checked my Windows Firewall options, the IS Config saying allow the connection, the IP address listed in ISBoxer for the other computer, etc. It is really odd because I didn't change any of these settings from when it was seeing the other computer to when it stopped.

I figured InnerSpace was pretty borked up in general, so I uninstalled and reinstalled it on one computer. Unfortunately, that didn't fix the problem. Also, all of my hard-earned Key Maps and other settings that I have created are gone on that computer. This wouldn't be a big deal except that I can't copy them from the other computer since it can't see it. I would like to try uninstalling and reinstalling IS on my other computer too, but that would eliminate all my settings entirely and I'm not keen to start over from scratch.

Any suggestions?

[Ualaa]

You can copy the Profile to clip board, and use Pastebin.com to host them.
Then you can open that, from the other computer.
You'll need to be able to see extensions, and rename the .txt to .xml
At which point, the other computer can open the profile.
Not the most elegant method to transfer mapped keys, but it will work.
You'd need to be sure to rename the 2nd computer to whatever its supposed to be, as they need to be different computers in the profile.

I've never run two systems, so am not sure what your issue is.
Are 5 accounts stable on both systems?
As in only five, on one or only five on the other?
It should be stable, with a five box on one system.
If you get that, then its just a matter of getting the two profiles to launch together and interact.

[robbotats]

Thanks for this guide. I just changed over to this program last night and although it was a bit of work learning how to use it, your guide certainly made things easier. Much appreciated.

[Crippled]

This is by far helped me the most out of all the guides i have read, i still have learning to do, and just playing around and getting my hands dirty. But thank you for helping me understand how some of the functios work

[lorddread]

Hi I am new here and not real sure how all this works yet but i was wondering about the

Example K - Click to Move (on Slaves only)
For those of us who want to have CTM enabled on the slaves, to facilitate having the slaves move closer to quest NPC's or Flight Masters automatically, but who do not like having it enabled on the active toon.

Create two Keymaps, in General Keymaps.

Keymap 1, "CTM Off".
Hotkey: Alt + Ctrl + ,
New Macro Action.
Target: Window (Current)
Key Combination: Control + Alt + ,
Display As (in Step): Checked; "Ctrl + Alt + Comma (CTM Off)"
In macro generator: /console AutoInteract 0

Keymap 2, "CTM On".
Hotkey: Alt + Ctrl + .
New Macro Action.
Target: Window (All w/o Current)
Key Combination: Control + Alt + .
Display As (in Step): Checked; "Ctrl + Alt + Period (CTM On)"
In macro generator: /console AutoInteract 1

Then modified the Follow/JambaMaster Keymap (Control Keymaps)
Added (twice) - Key Map Actions >> Do Mapped Key Action.
a) Window: Current, General, CTM Off.
b) Window: Current, General, CTM on.

Apply these two modifications to the Keymap which runs automatically on PiP switch.

My question is seeing as how we created a melee group above wouldn't it be better to do it using that group as the selected one to turn it on for only as apposed to anyone who is not main window that way you could have ranged and melee in same team and that would only make it ctm on on the melee ones?
ie on the target for
Keymap 2, "CTM On".
make it
Target: Group (others in):Melee
instead of
Target: Window (All w/o Current)
or am i wrong and missing something here?
You would still leave the ctm off the same as it is though right?

If this is how it works then could have ranged melee mixed or is that done another way?
Thanks in advance