Question about making hotkeys

[shinderhizzle84]

If you're alt-tabbing, you're doing it wrong. WoW should only be run in windowed mode, not fullscreen. Then the keys can pass to both windows.

I'd suggest going to the HotKeyNet tutorial link in my sig and starting from scratch. Then if you're still having issues, post the details, including the errors and the script you are using so that I can troubleshoot what's not working.

After you have the basic broadcasting working, then we can work on editing the script to do specific things.

Thanks for the reply. I managed to figure it out, but I'm still having a bit of trouble.

I've assigned a macro for my secondary character in WoW2 to follow my main character in WoW1 and set it to be key mapped in-game to the F1 key. I assigned Hotkeynet to only use the F1 key on WoW2. But whenever I press the F1 key, yes, it works, but it also immediately switches windows to WoW2, which is not what I wanted it to do.

Also, I have to alt-tab out a lot, because whenever I need to accept or reject a quest or pick up loot or track how far along my secondary character is in a specific quest. I've seen several macros around to get my secondary character to just accept the quest but that really doesn't work--the character is just non responsive.

I'll show you the code for hotkeynet that I made to utilize the F1 and F2 keys for my secondary character. Both of the hotkeys now work, but they immediately switch the active window in Windows 7 to WoW2, and then I have to alt+tab back into WoW1.

And I have both WoWs in Windowed mode. Before I had them in Windowed [Fullscreen] since I find it annoying to not be utilizing my laptop's entire screen, but I'd just imagine that playing in Windowed mode just makes everything a whole lot easier.

Lastly, a quick question: Say I decide to not Multibox on the same computer and instead use a separate computer for my secondary account. My main computer is a Windows computer using hotkeynet but my secondary computer runs only Mac OS X. Is it possible to share my keys with a computer that is running an entirely different OS? Does hotkeynet support Windows-to-mac or vice-versa key sharing?

Thank you.

Here's the coding that I have loaded in hotkeynet as of now:

<Label w1 Local SendWin "WoW1"><Label w2 Local Sendwin "WoW2">


<Hotkey CapsLockOn F1>
<SendLabel w2>
<Key %Trigger%>


<Hotkey CapsLockOn F2>
<SendLabel w2>
<Key %Trigger%>

[shinderhizzle84]

Thanks for the reply. I managed to figure it out, but I'm still having a bit of trouble.

I've assigned a macro for my secondary character in WoW2 to follow my main character in WoW1 and set it to be key mapped in-game to the F1 key. I assigned Hotkeynet to only use the F1 key on WoW2. But whenever I press the F1 key, yes, it works, but it also immediately switches windows to WoW2, which is not what I wanted it to do.

Also, I have to alt-tab out a lot, because whenever I need to accept or reject a quest or pick up loot or track how far along my secondary character is in a specific quest. I've seen several macros around to get my secondary character to just accept the quest but that really doesn't work--the character is just non responsive.

I'll show you the code for hotkeynet that I made to utilize the F1 and F2 keys for my secondary character. Both of the hotkeys now work, but they immediately switch the active window in Windows 7 to WoW2, and then I have to alt+tab back into WoW1.

And I have both WoWs in Windowed mode. Before I had them in Windowed [Fullscreen] since I find it annoying to not be utilizing my laptop's entire screen, but I'd just imagine that playing in Windowed mode just makes everything a whole lot easier.

Lastly, a quick question: Say I decide to not Multibox on the same computer and instead use a separate computer for my secondary account. My main computer is a Windows computer using hotkeynet but my secondary computer runs only Mac OS X. Is it possible to share my keys with a computer that is running an entirely different OS? Does hotkeynet support Windows-to-mac or vice-versa key sharing?

Thank you.

Here's the coding that I have loaded in hotkeynet as of now:

<Label w1 Local SendWin "WoW1"><Label w2 Local Sendwin "WoW2">


<Hotkey CapsLockOn F1>
<SendLabel w2>
<Key %Trigger%>


<Hotkey CapsLockOn F2>
<SendLabel w2>
<Key %Trigger%>

So after reading your noob guide I re-set some things up and it just did not help at all. It only made it worse, lol. I made one macro in WoW2 to set my slave character to follow my master and keymapped it to the F1 key. First I tried the [ key, and that didn't work, so I thought I'd try switching to the F1 key. Still completely non-responsive.

I also have a macro assigned to the 1 key for my slave toon that assists my master character and casts his main attack spell, shadow bolt (he's a warlock). Everything is non-responsive. I can move and attack around fine in WoW1, where my master toon is, but nothing translates over to WoW2--I still have to alt-tab into WoW2 if I want it to do anything at all, ever.

Here are the two macros that I gave my slave character:

1. Assist:

/assist Erryn [that's the name of my toon]
/cast Shadow Bolt

2. Follow:

/follow Erryn

Simple enough. I'm not really looking to get into anything too complicated to start out with--just something as basic as this will be suffice for the noob zones.

I have Macro 1 assigned to the 1 key inside WoW2 and macro 2 assigned to the F1 key. When I am playing WoW in the main window, WoW1, and hit the 1 key, nothing happens in WoW2. When I hit the F1 key in WoW1, nothing happens in WoW2. I have no idea if my scroll lock button is on or off because I'm running on a laptop and there is no actual scroll lock button--instead it's a small combination of 3 keys that I have to press. Perhaps this is the issue? If this is the case, what button do you recommend using to make my keymappings in hotkeynet turn on/off? I'd love to use the capslock but then whenever I spoke to anybody in the game I'd be yelling at them :P

Here is the .txt file that I've had loaded in hotkeynet. I just switched the function button to Caps Lock and it didn't help at all. In fact, not only is WoW2 completely nonresponsive, but for some reason whenever I click any of the hotkeyed buttons Windows screws up somehow and I have to re-click on the WoW window to get back into it. In other words, my mouse and keyboard in Windows 7 seem to get triggered into acting outside of WoW everytime I use a hotkeyed key. And it's still completely unresponsive in both windows of Wow.

<Label w1 Local SendWin "WoW1"><Label w2 Local Sendwin "WoW2">


<Hotkey CapsLockOn 1-9>
<SendLabel w1, w2>
<Key %Trigger%>


<Hotkey CapsLockOn F1>
<SendLabel w1, w2>
<Key %Trigger%>