New to dual/multi boxing and ran into an issue with Windows 8.

[Coanunn]

So, the subject says the base of the problem, I'm running windows 8. That is a problem because as a disabled person I have limited income and was trying to stick with strictly free products and the one I chose was HotKeyNet, which apparently doesn't support windows 8. I am sort of at the end of my rope and about to go back to just putting the second character on follow and tabbing back and forth for crucial interactions but doing the work on the primary because I simply can't seem to find an option that works in Windows 8 but is also free. I apologize if this is covered elsewhere on the site, I did some searching and found several topics about which program was better but nothing that dealt specifically with the OS issue I'm having.

Thank you for any help you can provide.

[MiRai]

This is the first report I think I've heard that HKN doesn't work in Windows 8. What does the program do if you run it in a compatibility mode for Windows 7?

[Coanunn]

Thanks for looking into this for me. So far what has happened is that it does not actually replicate any keyboard commands. I have the script from their site running along with rebinds of all of the movement keys to follow command macros, but the only thing that gets sent to the second client window are mouse clicks and only if I hold down the OEM key. Even the mouse clicks will only replicate the first mouse click. No other commands are being sent over to the second window. In order to test this I even opened chat on the secondary account to capture any keystrokes and none were captured. I've had this happen both in compatibility mode as well as normal. I looked and the HKN site specifically states it only supports up to Windows 7 and there are no threads there in regards to work arounds for the compatibility issue, therefore I took them at their word that it was unsupported.

[aspekx]

are you running 8 or 8.1?

as far as i can tell i am running 8 (not 8.1) and i am running HotKeyNet without any problems (except for my noobish scripting ).

can we assume you have been launching HKN with admin priviliges by right clicking the .exe?

also a mistake i made right after downloading it was trying to launch hotkeynet_km.exe rather than hotkeynet.exe

[Coanunn]

are you running 8 or 8.1?

as far as i can tell i am running 8 (not 8.1) and i am running HotKeyNet without any problems (except for my noobish scripting ).

can we assume you have been launching HKN with admin priviliges by right clicking the .exe?

also a mistake i made right after downloading it was trying to launch hotkeynet_km.exe rather than hotkeynet.exe

I am running 8.1. I did not default to admin privledges via the contextual menu but have it set to prompt for access during launch so it is running in admin. My script was a copy and past off the HKN site and as such is below even "noobish" level and at "I stole it" level at best. As far as I know I have not launched the wrong program on any of my attempts.

[Coanunn]

Also, I am fully willing to admit this is likely an error between keyboard and chair if others are not having these issues with this program. It is quite likely I have done something complete daft or incorrect.

[aspekx]

so we can noob this out together maybe until someone brighter and more experienced jumps in

it sounds like you are getting the game to launch via hotkeys that you set up in HKN. (btw which game are you playing?)

but that once ingame you can't get keys or mouse clicks to broadcast properly to the game clients you have running.

is this the case?

[Coanunn]

Thank you again for the help, I was literally one step from just giving up. I am running WoW trying to capitalize on the Black Friday sale for an RAF to reroll on a new server. So far I can use Ctrl+Alt+L to launch the game, I hit scroll lock, log into both clients, reposition them where I want them on the screen (stacked by offset so that I can only see the bottom & right hand edge of the second screen is what I've done so far), hit scroll lock again and hit Ctrl+R to rename the windows. All of that works. I'll hit scroll lock, go through party creation, make sure both are close to each other, etc, hit scroll lock again and from the main screen start hitting movement keys and that is where it fails. Nothing happens on the second client at all. Now if I manually position both somewhere or manually click anything on the screen while holding down OEM3 key the FIRST mouse click will translate, but after that it is the same as keyboard commands, nothing is replicated to the second client.

[aspekx]

can you post your script?

if you go into the advanced settings for posting [Go Advanced] there is a hashtag# symbol that should let you post code here.

i can think of a couple of things that occur to me reading the above, but 1. im as new as you are and 2. it'd be better to see the script you've got running first.

[Coanunn]

Full copy and paste from http://hotkeynet.com/wow/wow-sample-two-on-one.html save that I modified the file path for the exe. As I said before, I'm still at the "I stole it" level of scripts for this as my understanding is exactly bubkiss so far.

Now the other half of the "setup" per the tutorial video I watched was to set my bottom right action bar keys to wasdqe and assign a "/follow maintoonname" (yes, I used my toon name) to each button, unbinding them on the second client from movement so that all movement was translated as /follow commands. They also had me create macros that set the focus of the secondary character to the main and cast ability on target of target.

Sample:
/focus coanunn
/targetfocustarget
/cast Arcane Shot