Octopus, an oldie but goodie. Need some input.

[zanthor]

Ugh - you could set <enter> as your broadcast pause toggle (and then map it to itself so it does a pass-through>

Problems with that...

/ to start chatting instead of enter.
R to reply
enter to repeat last chat type

I've never worked out a reliable way to toggle broadcasting while chatting.

[WaffleFrie]

lol i figured out my launcher issue, didn't have "auto add windows" on DEE DEE DEE. as for any kind of update, last i knew the person that made it killed the project and ended the open source on it as well. that was about a year ago that i saw this news, so hopefully he's picked it back up! a quick profile switch would be extremely handy for me as i try to multibox alot of different games(anyone play some games that are f2p/micro transaction/trial to certain lvl that i could try out)

[Sethra]

I still use Octopus.

However, a while back when I installed the Win 7 public beta on my new machine, the X-Keys/Octopus combination seemed to act weird. Single key broadcasting worked fine, but if I bound two keys together at once (i.e. ctrl-F1) then it wouldn't broadcast anymore.

I do get the very occasional random crash, but it's so rare that I don't care.

[Ghallo]

Single key broadcasting worked fine, but if I bound two keys together at once (i.e. ctrl-F1) then it wouldn't broadcast anymore.

I had this problem too with my XKeys. I went to each key and did the following:
Add the "on-release" checkbox
Put Ctrl-F1 in both the top box and the buttom box
insert "Key Down" at the end of the top box line
insert "Key Up" at the end of the bottom box line.

[Sethra]

I had this problem too with my XKeys. I went to each key and did the following:
Add the "on-release" checkbox
Put Ctrl-F1 in both the top box and the buttom box
insert "Key Down" at the end of the top box line
insert "Key Up" at the end of the bottom box line.

Seems to be working now.

Thanks!

[Rhod]

I had this problem too with my XKeys. I went to each key and did the following:
Add the "on-release" checkbox
Put Ctrl-F1 in both the top box and the buttom box
insert "Key Down" at the end of the top box line
insert "Key Up" at the end of the bottom box line.

To add to this sub topic: I had a similar problem when I upgraded to 7 from XP Pro with my G15 keys. The key profiler, that starts up when your computer starts, needs to be shut down and restarted as "Run as Administrator." This fixed the problem with my G keys not functioning.

[olibri1]

I have used Octopus since shortly after it was created. I like it a lot, and it works pretty well. My biggest problem has been simultaneous key-presses with key modifiers causing strange behavior. For example, if I broadcast shift-z and am hitting '2' at the same time, then sometimes this ends up as shift-2. I don't know how the key-broadcasting works, but I would have expected that the ASCII value actually gets sent as opposed to the individual keys, which may not have caused this problem.

I like Octopus enough that I'd have paid for it. Unfortunately it takes so much work to integrate that kind of program that you don't know for a long time whether it will work for you or not.

FYI: I use Octopus, hotkeynet, Autohotkey, xkeys, and a logitech g15 for my multi-boxing.

[species6729]

I have been using Octopus for a long time. I am just getting back into WOW after taking a few months off. Trying to setup Octopus to play a 5 box team. I think I got it to work 90% of the time. Still have some problems with Mouse Broadcasting to cast AOE from my 4 mage.

I am trying to follow Ghallo and Ughmahedhurtz advice but I am still doing something wrong. This is what I am setting up in Octopus 1.3.5f

1, Go to " Server" tab, then to "Clicks" tab.
2, Name a New profile "my mouse clicks"
3 , I have a Wolf King Gaming Mouse with 4 button + a scroll wheel. I am able to get Octopus to add "Btn1, Btn2, and Btn4" to my profile.
4, On my 4 Mage I have bind "6" with my "Blizzard" spell.
5, In order to cast "Blizzard" from my 4 mage. I need to press "6" (all my mage has the AOE ready), Left click or use Btn4 from my main to where I want to cast the spell but nothing happen. All my mage still has the blue circle out but no one cast the spell. I can either click on each of my mage screen, then left click on the area, then the mage will cast the spell.

Did I miss a step somewhere.

[Ghallo]

Well, I'm not totally sure how far I am going to go with this, but I talked with Skarlot (the original author of Octopus) and purchased the source tree for both Octopus and Interbox. I am not a dev, but I've been looking at this and figured I could make the simple changes necessary.

But Octopus is a very complicated application. I must say it is well organized code-wise, but it is very daunting to look at.

[Mamut]

I have been using Octopus since i started boxing ages ago, and i still use it. Click regions is a great idea to make healing easier on an alt but other then that i wouldn't change anything.

Wonder what happened to skarlot?