Input method ok/notok TOS question

[Tehtsuo]

I suppose I should ask on the WoW forums about this one, but figured I could get opinions here too. If I were to have an app (I think AHK might allow me to set this up) that would generate a keypress when the WoW window gained focus, would that be against the Terms of Service? True it's not a hardware key press, but it's not strictly automation as it has to be initiated by the user. I think it's some very shaky ground, any ideas?

[Kedash00]

from the way i understand it, if you are not actually pressing the button on your keyboard it's considered automation by bliz. That is the way it was put to me in simplest form from a GM.

[Tehtsuo]

from the way i understand it, if you are not actually pressing the button on your keyboard it's considered automation by bliz. That is the way it was put to me in simplest form from a GM.

This is true, but if you don't have focus follows mouse on, you have to click a mouse button to pass focus, and therefore trigger the action...

[Anozireth]

Even if you have focus follows mouse on, it is your movement of the mouse that triggers the focus change, not anything automated. Still, this is a bit of a gray area I think.

[Tehtsuo]

Even if you have focus follows mouse on, it is your movement of the mouse that triggers the focus change, not anything automated. Still, this is a bit of a gray area I think.

I agree wholeheartedly, it's gray all over. :S

[Chorizotarian]

I assume that the GM in question defines "button" broadly to inlcude things like unit frames, ore nodes, etc. There's lots of things in WoW that don't require actual buttons, either keyboard ones or in-game.

OP: What are you trying to do? Maybe someone can suggest a way that keeps you out of the gray area.

[Tehtsuo]

Well, if I run maximizer, I could have each window fire off a keypress when I mouse over it to make that window the follow target. Kinda an alternative to PiP. I also have another use for it that I'm keeping to myself till I test it some more.