Key Modifiers?

[xRavyn]

I'm now running the script Bettysue posted, and still having the same problem; Shift does not seem to modify the keys being sent to the first/active window. It will modify them to the second window, so that the second character only uses their abilities when shift is held ( which is how I have WoW's keybindings set ), but even with that key held down, the first/active window still treats the numbers as if there is no shift key held.

And, I apologize for my newbishness.

[Freddie]

Do you always have the same window (that copy of WoW) in the foreground?

[Bettysue]

Alright let's try to break the problem down. What are you pressing on the keyboard and what are you expecting to happen on each WoW.
For instance I am pressing "1" and expect to see "shift 1" on WoW1 and WoW2.


If you are pressing shift 1 and want to see it broadcast to each wow you need to make sure your keybinding for that particular actionbar are set to "shift 1."

Or you could the macro on the particular key.
For example, Set the keybinding for the first action button to "1" (above the letter Q)
Then make a macro like

/cast ability; [mod:shift] otherability

Make sure you have unbound all of the modifier+key combos in the keybinding menu. The easiest way to be sure you have done this is pick the key you want and bind it to an action, this will clear it from all other spots it may have been bound then unbind the key, and set it to the desired keybinding.

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another option: You could also add "shift" "ctrl" and "alt" to your keylist.

Another thing to be aware of is use of the numberpad and shift. Quite a few of the standard keyboards on the market already have key assignments for shift numberpad0-9. For example shift numpad0 sends the insert ket to WoW.

Hopefully, we can get you on the right track pretty quickly, just let me know if this helps or not, and answer the question in the first line if nothing works. What we can do from there is write a single key script and make that work before we add a bunch of other keys.

[Freddie]

Another thing to be aware of is use of the numberpad and shift. Quite a few of the standard keyboards on the market already have key assignments for shift numberpad0-9. For example shift numpad0 sends the insert ket to WoW.

You're doing a great job with xRayvn's problem so I'll stay out of it.

Warning: digression ahead

About the number pad keys, this is not a matter of key assignment. What you are seeing here is that when Shift is down, NumLock's effect on the number pad is disabled.. This is done by the system software. This is standard behavior on PCs because IBM designed the original IBM PC that way.

As an example, here's how the number pad Zero key works:

1. When NumLock is off, the key is an Insert key.
2. When NumLock on and Shift is up, the key is a Zero key.
3. When NumLock is on and Shift is down, the key is an Insert key.

The third point often surprises people. The shift key temporarily turns off NumLock. That's part of IBM's design from 1981.

Here's an article about this feature by somebody who claims he helped design it: Use Shift to Disable Numlock

Just in case anybody here finds this interesting (for some strange reason, I do), here's the relevant code from the BIOS of the original IBM PC.

The point being, this is built into the computer, not the keyboard.

I highlighted the part where Shift cancels NumLock.

[Bettysue]

Hey Freddie thanks for the info. I know a few of the stranger programmable keyboards have remapped the functionality of the numpad, basically making the numbers the same as the numbers above the letter keys. My G15 does this but it seems not all of them do...so either I changed something somewhere or they have a couple different versions of the same keyboard. Anywho that's why i thought it was worth mentioning the the numberpad+shift quirks.