Octopus, an oldie but goodie. Need some input.

[Ghallo]

I 5 box with it as well. Fef, the same thing happened to me. Within a week of installing it someone hacked one of my accounts and I had to call to get it back. Leads me to think that the location we may have got it from is doing something fishy. But other than that isolated moment it has done everything I've needed it to do.

There are a few things that maybe I just don't know how to do that I would like.

1) Run in different resolutions. Currently if I change any of the resolutions on my clients it changes for all. I only run off of one WoW installation folder -> so using 2 different folders may take care of that for me.
2) Mouse broadcasting for AoE. Once again something that it may be able to do and I just don't know how.

If you guys know how to set that up I'd love to hear it!

1) I currently run 1 client at 1920x1200 and the other 4 at 960x600. Works fine. Just go into the "Maximizer" setup and define the screen sizes - I'd recommend naming them things like "TopLeftx960x600" etc and then in the Profile manager you assign that toon to that maximizer. I can send screenshots tonight.
2) All you have to do is bind a key to "mouse broadcast" and then check the box on each client for "receives broadcast clicks" - then you can have them AOE with a single mouse click.

[Ughmahedhurtz]

1) Run in different resolutions. Currently if I change any of the resolutions on my clients it changes for all. I only run off of one WoW installation folder -> so using 2 different folders may take care of that for me.

Try looking up the symlinked folder (or NTFS junction points) methods for running multiple wow folders with a single base install. I use the junction point method and aside from a few minutes of extra work on patch days, it works like a champ.

2) Mouse broadcasting for AoE. Once again something that it may be able to do and I just don't know how.

If you guys know how to set that up I'd love to hear it!

If you want to setup mouse cursor broadcasting where the _cursor_ moves on all clients, I can't help ya. If you just want click broadcasting for casting Blizzard/Treants/Flamestrike/bombs/etc., just enable it and add your mouse keys that you want to use to the server-->Clicks list. Assuming you're using 1.35 or later, it should work fine. If you need a process for setting it up, let me know. I've been meaning to set up a click broadcast section in my tutorial but just haven't gotten around to it.

[edit] Caveat Emptor: you need to have all your wows set to the same UI scale and video mode aspect ratio for the clicks to be accurate. Check out my post here for the basic stuff to check if you're having problems with mouse clicking not being accurate in Octopus.

http://www.dual-boxing.com/showthread.php?p=77201

[Rhod]

I've used Octopus for a couple years now. I'm very comfortable with it and best of all, it works with my Windows 7 64-Bit "Server" Machine and my other 32-bit Windows XP "client" machines without a hitch. (Minus the little UAC junk you have to do).

One thing I would like to see is a "quick" profile change setting. I have pretty unique keybinds which are centered around being able to play my other "boxed" toons on my main computer solo without changing a bunch of keybindings. I have one profile for "normal" boxing and another for "mounted" combat. It would be cool if I could hit a quickkey and change my profile instead of through the dropdown menu.

[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.

[Thulos]

Been using it for a year and a half 5 boxing across two computers. There are two bugs I get from time to time that are annoying. The first is every once in a while a key get stuck, but its usually pretty easy to fix. Its not so annoying unless it is the Control key and then the d key toggles sound on and off for a few seconds until I get it unstuck. The second bug is octopus sometimes crashes when it loads on bootup.

[Ughmahedhurtz]

The second bug is octopus sometimes crashes when it loads on bootup.

That's not an octopus bug -- it's a bug in the way DLLs load in .NET Framework. I've seen it with other .NET start-on-boot apps.

[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.

[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.