Round-Robin Reset on Window Switch

[daanji]

I am running 5x Dks and 5x Paladins. I setup a click bar with a mouseover macro that does Lay on Hands that is Round-Robined.
Each button on the click bar (10 buttons) all go

This works extremely well, however, I noticed that when I switch windows the Round-Robin order resets to the beginning.


How can I keep the order between window switched.

[Lax]

The way it works is each game instance has its own copy of the Mapped Key, with its own state information (what Step it's on, what number each Round-robin is at, etc).

So what you need to do is make sure it keeps using the state information used from some specific window, instead of the active window.

So.. to make this simple let's say you used the Mapped Key Wizard to set up a Round-robin on the "Q" key... so you have some mapped key and it's called "RR Q" and it has a Hotkey "Q" and in Step 1 it has a Keystroke Action configured with Target being "Window: All w/o Current" with the round-robin box checked.

Here's some easy steps to convert such a Mapped Key to what you want:
1. Remove the Hotkey ("Q" in this example) from the Round-robin Mapped Key ("RR Q" in this example).
2. Right click on the Round-robin Mapped Key ("RR Q") and select Create Alternative Hotkey. This will generate a new Mapped Key with a name based on the original (e.g. "RR Q - Alternate")
3. Put the Hotkey ("Q" in this example) on the Alternate Mapped Key instead of on the original
4. Expand the new, Alternate Mapped Key so that under it you see Steps, 1
5. Click on the 1 under Steps
6. In the bottom right pane, the only Action in the new Mapped Key should already be selected, just change the Target for the Do Mapped Key Action you should be looking at, to a specific Slot, e.g. "Character Slot:1 (name of char)" in the drop-down box
7. Export to Inner Space

This way, when you press "Q" in this example, the current window will send an instruction to window 1 saying "hey, do 'RR Q'", and then window 1 will look at its "RR Q" and decide who needs the keystroke. Regardless of which window you're in.

Enjoy

[JohnGabriel]

Instead of Round Robin could your macro just use a different castsequence with four nulls for each?

/castsequence Lay on Hands, null, null, null, null
/castsequence null, Lay on Hands, null, null, null
etc

[Lax]

Instead of Round Robin could your macro just use a different castsequence with four nulls for each?

/castsequence Lay on Hands, null, null, null, null
/castsequence null, Lay on Hands, null, null, null
etc

Here's what I don't like about Poor Man's Round-Robin... Tap your button twice, and you've either lost Lay on Hands from 2 characters instead of 1. Also, correct me if I'm wrong, but if LoH is on cooldown it's just going to hang at Lay on Hands in your sequences until it's ready, so if you press it 10 times quickly, you'll not only waste every Lay on Hands you have, but every game instance should be stuck on Lay on Hands in its own castsequence, so when you press the Hotkey once 10 minutes later, every Lay on Hands fires. Having more than one of them stuck on that spell defeats the purpose of Round-robin


With the actual Round-robin functionality, you can enable "Do not advance for ___ seconds" on the Step and set it to 0.5 seconds or so. That way you can hit it a couple times to deal with global cooldowns if necessary, and not automatically skip half of your characters or waste their abilities if you happen to tap it an extra time.

[daanji]

Thanks Lax, that did the trick!

I am having a different issue with my click bar.

When I restart, I have to for ALT+CTRL+SHIFT+G again and each window to setup the click bar again. I hit save on each window and synchronize everything. It works great, but then I exit WoW and come back later and my click bar on all the slaves are gone (it remains on Slot 1, my main).

Any idea?


Secondly, is it possible to use Mouse 4/5 or scroll wheel up/down or middle click with a click bar?

EDIT: After some searching, I found this thread that answers my mouse question. http://mail.isboxer.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=27&t=1086 . Also it seems my click bars are now saving correctly.