Question about making hotkeys

[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%>