GUIDE: Click Healing System Using Party Frames

[IMTrick]

What I noted is that I am often able to click through the click bar. So my main is actually targetting the group members. Of course in that case the heal is not casted and also the repeater region not loaded again.

Yep, that was exactly what I was running into... The click bar wasn't getting clicked. After screwing around a bit in the console and saving/re-exporting/yelling at the click bar and repeater area a few times, it's working great now.

Oh, man, is this easier than how I was doing healing before. I'm a happy boxer.

[balrog78]

Yep, that was exactly what I was running into... The click bar wasn't getting clicked. After screwing around a bit in the console and saving/re-exporting/yelling at the click bar and repeater area a few times, it's working great now.

Oh, man, is this easier than how I was doing healing before. I'm a happy boxer.

If you start a 2nd team you might run into the issue again. I had it perfectly working until I switched to my 2nd team. But maybe your setup is more stable than mine.
What I have now is F1-F4 to do the healing. for me it is also easier than having to move the mouse pointer.

[chazz]

Chazz,

K, first. Excellent info there. Its taken me a little bit to get my head wrapped around whats going on there. So I got a couple questions.

1. How does this differ / is better than negating the use of the repeater region completely, and just using the clickbars coupled with the "Target Me" and a particular mapped key for the healer on an aux action bar?

(Reason being, the Mosg/Apps method for healing.. which we stole from Remanz...hehe... works flawlessly. Instant window swaps to handle a toon specific emergency or movement, with synced bars, still allows for the same heal setup from any window) Could we not also use another method of click targeting and click healing by the way of a video feed from each toon, to each toon, saved as Auto within the setup screen, interdependent for each, and a simple clickbar or bar(s) for each to "click through" heal?

2. If we're currently using a click to heal method, have you tried a multi key from mouse for healing? I.e. both left and right mouse buttons for shielding? Or would the driving toon move forward too much? would we have to disable mouse movement on the lead window? (this seems a bit more cumbersome now that I put it in writing.)

The difference between using this and just using Click Bars is that you can target and heal by clicking the actual Player Portraits in the Party Frame rather than a Click Bar placed next to it, which at least to me is more intuitive and doesn't clutter my UI with unnecessary graphics. However using Click Bars will give you an extra Mouse Button. I used Click Bars to heal my companions when I was dual-boxing and VideoFX to display their healthbars beneath them.
As for your second question I have not tried that, as far as I know it isn't even supported in ISBoxer?

Yep, that was exactly what I was running into... The click bar wasn't getting clicked. After screwing around a bit in the console and saving/re-exporting/yelling at the click bar and repeater area a few times, it's working great now.

Oh, man, is this easier than how I was doing healing before. I'm a happy boxer.

Glad it worked out for you.
Regarding the issue you and Balrog78 seemed to have; I have never experienced that myself. But I haven't played my team with a healer in it for a few weeks now, so maybe it's a bug that has snuck in through an update of ISBoxer or something.

[OldRod_KS]

used Click Bars to heal my companions when I was dual-boxing and VideoFX to display their healthbars beneath them.

Would you be able to show how to set up this VideoFX (in idiot-steps preferably )? I love the click bar healing I have set up for my 2-box now, but having to look at the secondary screen to see the other companion health bar is annoying

[Apps]

The difference between using this and just using Click Bars is that you can target and heal by clicking the actual Player Portraits in the Party Frame rather than a Click Bar placed next to it, which at least to me is more intuitive and doesn't clutter my UI with unnecessary graphics.

Sorry, thats not right.

If a person were to make a keymap for the heal skill or anything really, and set up that mapped key to use assist, or target, or specifically press a "Target Party Member X" function in game, and reference that mapped key when setting up the click bar, you can absolutely target the player and heal them. Really, how else would you heal them if you didnt target them?

Example. I lead with Toon A. Toon B is the healer. Toon C needs a heal. On Toon A window, I click the 90% translucent clickbar. Toon B heals Toon C. I didnt have to target anything, press any key combination, nor did I have to swap screens or even look at Toon B or C windows, because I can see it go off from the Party portraits on the side. And as you mentioned, if using the clickbars, a person can set up multiple functions, name it, color it, hell, just for grins n giggles, I set up 4 click bars for heals, and mounting. Then I turned off my UI completely, as the clickbars sit on top, and I completely cleared out my screen for "cluttered UI". Pressing "1" through whatever key for my dps rotations, and the 4 click bars... the game functions perfectly, with NOTHING on the screen but my team.

I hope this doesnt sound like a "Negative Nancy" cause your stuff looks good. Just seems like doing it the hard way.

[chazz]

Sorry, thats not right.

You missinterpreted what I was saying.
I haven't played my team with a healer for quite a while now and have no access to the game nor my team at this moment, so I can't verify/re-check this, but;
When I created my first team I noticed that the Party Member Slots got shifted around and they didn't seem to stick to any logical arrangement, which meant that the first player in the Party Frame could be "Party Member #3" for example.
Due to this I came up with the idea of using Repeater Region & Click Bar to allow me to always target the correct Party Member by simply clicking on their portrait, which is the most intuitive way since their entire portrait is a health bar.

If this has changed in any way, or if by some miracle I ran across a bug when setting up my first team, then just using the transparent Click Bar could potentially work just as well. And give you an extra Mouse Button to boot.