Autohotkey+WoW questions

[maximusss]

Few questions about autohotkey and World of warcraft, sorry if these have been answered, didn't find answers though.

How can you pvp with autohotkey ? Sure /follow targetname is enough for pve, but in pvp when targets go out of sight, you'll need your secondary characters to turn around to prevent that. How can you get around this ? Simply by making secondary characters copy the main characters moves ? All the example/basic scripts here seemed to have only /follow thing nothing any more advanced ?

Is it possible to make secondary characters automatically get quests directly from npc's ? Also is it possible to make them hand in the quests and pick the rewards ? Following the main characters moves ofcourse.



Thanks

[thinus]

You are talking about replicating mouse movement. There are TONS of mouse discussions and the problems that come with it.

And yes, for pvp all the clones /follow and cast <insert favorite macro here> when you push the big red button.

[Narcoz]

Hi!

(AHK = AutoHotKey)

For the moment being there is the AHK thread under software tools and my own networked AHK experimental script.

The AHK thread one simply makes keystrokes go from the main window (where you play yourself) to eventual alt-windows on the same computer.

My script extends the same idea except it provides a way to play on one computer and to send the keystrokes to all game-windows on another computer.

AutoHotkey is a full script language that is imho not very "beautiful in the syntax" but seems very versatile considering what people manage to do with it.

AutoHotKey is NOT made for multiboxing directly but is more like a general purpose windows environment manipulation script language.

Given that AHK has commands and functions for reading mouseposition and capturing all keystrokes and mouseclicks and recreate them it seems to me to just be a matter of extending the scripts for your own need.

If you aren't into scripting yourself, I'd recommend to check out KeyClone (read up on if it does what you need first) or similar solution that is aimed on multiboxing in the first place.

[maximusss]

If scripting isn't problem, do you still recommend going for Clonekey ? Not worrying much about having to learn scripting with AHK. Too bad Clonekey doesen't have a trial feature or something, so that you could try it out and compare it with other programs.

[Narcoz]

disclaimer: I use AHK myself and have not tried KeyClone or others myself yet.

It revolves around how much time you got to make you setup. KeyClone is probably very fast to get going. AHK eventhough much harder to setup gives you a whole other level of flexibility. Since it can manipulate windows and place them and map keys/mouse as you wish you can do pretty much everything you can dream of in AHK.

Examples what i mean with flexibility:

1. You could have the numpad (on the keyboard) emulate a cellular-phones T9 input method when your mouse pointer is in the lower right corner of the screen but work as normal when the mouse pointer is anywhere else.

2. You could have you keypresses routed to the "action bar" ingame that is nearest your mouse pointer.

Not sure if this would ever be useful but it's examples of what you can do when you write it yourself.
I'm pretty sure the above mentioned functionality would be pretty hard to achieve in most other ready multiboxer packages (unless the author specifically add such a function that can be enabled in the config).

There is yet another aspect to: AHK allows for a very high degree of automation (being a general purpose script language and all) so you have to try to think about functions you do to follow the spirit of the WoW ToS all the way. Blizzards rule is (simplified): Never automate something into less steps (keypresses/mouseclicks etc) than would be possible to achieve with the original GUI (or through the Addon API).

I'm however pretty sure that AHK can do most of what the ready multiboxing packages can do, if you got the time to code it yourself. I don't think the language itself will be the limitation for implementing any of the features you need.