Question about mouse repeater when using 2 machines

[Zub]

Hi,
i've followed the guide on http://www.isboxer.com/index.php/com...iple-computers and everything seems to work fine. both my computers start from the main, and keys/mouse are broadcast correctly from one machine to the other, to all slaves (got main on machine 1, and 4 slaves on machine 2)

whenever i enable mouse repeater however, the 'other' machine's mouse becomes very slow/stutters, which i assume corresponds to this warning on the webpage:

Any broadcast to "all windows" (or "all w/o current", etc) will include all linked PCs. Action Target Groups will also work across linked PCs. When using Mouse Repeater, make sure not to enable Repeater from All Windows -- this will cause all PCs to enable Repeater and, since they all have an active foreground window, will result in each of them broadcasting their mouse cursor, therefore causing jittering.

how do i do that? atm i just enable repeater by clicking the gray/green icon in the top left corner of my main machine.
(the icon becomes green on the main machine, not on the other, but still i see the mouse repeated)

thank for your help
-Zub

[Justest]

i had this problem aswell. then i changed the resolutions of the game windows to be all the same and the mousrepeater worked like it should. dont know if thats ur problem and i dont know if u have to do that but it solved that problem at my pcs.
good luck testing it

[Lax]

The button you're pressing does the "Activate Repeater" mapping under Control key map. Unless you changed the Target of the Repeater State Actions in that to all windows, it defaults to only the current window. If you changed it yourself, you might have only changed the Repeater State Actions, and not the one that does the click bar buttons.

[Zub]

ah i haven't changed the state of the default button, but i think Justest hit the nail on the head: my main screen (on machine1) has a resolution of 1680*1050 when my slaves (on machine2) have 1/4th of that (800*500).

hum, does that mean i need my slaves to have a 1680*1050 reso as well? not sure my second machine will handle 4 of that.

[Zub]

The button you're pressing does the "Activate Repeater" mapping under Control key map. Unless you changed the Target of the Repeater State Actions in that to all windows, it defaults to only the current window. If you changed it yourself, you might have only changed the Repeater State Actions, and not the one that does the click bar buttons.

i've just checked, and from what i could see (and understand) all the settings are still for 'current window' only.
and still very jittery whenever i move my mouse over a repeater region. (be it from one machine or the other)

i've now removed the clickbars and repeater default profile from the character set of my slave machine, but no change.

I also changed the render size to make it similar on all layout screen (every wow instance) to be the same as the main window (1680x1050) but no luck there either.

attached is my ISBoxer xml file, if that helps. Probably a lot of stupid things i did in there >.<

thanks for the help
-Zub

[Harrypott]

I had a issue where my second computer didn't have the same resolution due to old monitors... so when I repeated the mouse it was in a different location on the other screens. Went out and got a new screen for it sorted that out. So ended up running the same res for the windows and in game. That wasn't jittery tho.

If I create a repeater region for healing and set it to ( "all windows" or "all w/o current") then it is jittery, based on the documentation for setting up multiple computers " make sure not to enable Repeater from All Windows" I gather that is expected? so I'm probably going to use a "Action Target Group" to just send the mouse repeater to the two toons I want it to go to that are on my main computer anyway.

[Zub]

i tried changing a few more things but i really can't seem to make the repeater regions work nice and steady when using 2 machines.

basically, as soon as my mouse moves over a region, the mouse starts jumpingin a 5-10pixels radius around the actual mouse position, and the mouse becomes very sticky, as in it takes alot of effort to move the cursor out of the repeater region.

Could not heal that way yesterday, as the mouse was jumping all over my grid/clique setup and i couldn't target the correct toon to heal it.

Any more ideas?

Apart from that, i'll add that changing ISBoxer from a single machine to a 2-machine setup was fairly painless and quite intuitive. the guide is clear and worked first go.
I now have a much higher FPS on my second machine (which runs 4 instead of 5) and can use the main fullscreen.
I can finaly fly in Icecrown without any toons lagging due to FPS loss :-)
just this Mouse Repeater thing to fix and i'll be all set

[Lax]

The only reason it will be jumpy is if the foreground/active window on both PCs has Mouse Repeat enabled. If you're using Repeater Regions, you can avoid placing them on windows you wont need this control *from*.

[Zub]

ok let me try understand this:-)

The only reason it will be jumpy is if the foreground/active window on both PCs has Mouse Repeat enabled.

i never use a mouse specific repeater, i only use either the default keymaps button (left icon, topleft corner of screen) or the default repeater button (right icon, topleft corner of screen)
at the moment, i don't even see those icons on the slave machine as i ermoved clickbars and repeater default profiles from that character set
In my case, the only way i can see the mouse on all screen is if I click the repeater icon from the main machine, or if my main mouses over one of the repeater regions.

question, on the slave machine, since there will obviously be one wow with the focus, does that mean the mouse is interfering? how can i disable the mouse for that wow? (not talking about repeater here, just the normal mouse)
is it as simple as keeping the mouse out of the wow window or do i need to open a notepad or something so taht the wow windows doesn't have focus?

If you're using Repeater Regions, you can avoid placing them on windows you wont need this control *from*.

ok i believe you're saying that is i need the Regions to heal for example, then i should only set that region on my healer. Fair enough, one of my regions is set like that (on another character set)
The current problematic region is for all toons however (region over the jamba items bar)

cheers,
-Zub

[Harrypott]

Worked out my problem!! I'm guessing it's the same as yours too.

In ISBoxer... at the top expand repeater Profiles, you should have a Default one there. Click on it, now down the bottom, under Character Sets.... I had two character sets.. the toons on my main pc and the toons on my second computer. I removed the character set for the toons from the second computer... (so only one character set in it..) Did copy + export to all computers.. and it's all working fine now.