Hotkeynet stopped working

[r3tardbatman]

My money is on Blizzard having done something, I'd bet there was some kind of patch this morning in combination with the maintenance.
Using hotkeynet I can control both Half-Life 2 & The Stanley Parable, as well as enter text in chrome. With WoW however I can't do more than rename the windows. Thus it's not something that's changed in Windows that's broken it.
I'm running Windows 7 Ultimate, last update received March 16'th. Tried disabling my antivirus which did nothing and I'm about to fire up my other computer in safe mode to see what happens there.

EDIT: CKS does work however, unfortunately it's not exactly a substitute.

[Rafipi]

It was a temp fix for me as well I'm afraid. Worked once but can't get it to work again.

[fdelduque]

I first I tought was Wow related, but today I tried using on notepad to be sure and didn't work too. So probally the problem is with windows and HKN, I hope they fixed this cause I like HKN. I'm using autohotkey while HKN isnt working

[MiRai]

There's no reason to have multiple threads about the same topic, so they've been merged.

[Rathik]

I am still having issues, all I can do is rename the windows.
None of the other keys work in any wow windows.
I re downloaded hkn and use default script but nothing works still.

Anyone has any more tips on how to make this work again?

[Spacecowboy]

Came here to see if anyone else was having a similar issue and if there was a fix for it. I can open wow fine manually but when I use my script I get the same blank grey error box as everyone else. I did manage a work around for this problem but hope someone can come up with a better solution. Anyway, here is what I did:

Open each instance of wow manually
Then use HKN program menu to manually rename each instance. The rename option is under the Actions menu. Right click the title bar of the window you want to rename when the Rename option is open. Then type the windows new name.
Then I just use the hotkey I have set up that Configures the position of the windows.

Note: Depending on how your config file is set you may want to add a <RemoveWinFrame> to your ResizeAndPosition command.

Hope this helps and that we can come up with a better solution soon.

Here is the relevant code for reference:

//----------------------------------------------------------------
// Alternate Window CONFIG WITH HOTKEYS Alt Shift F1-F5
//----------------------------------------------------------------
<Hotkey ScrollLockOn Alt Shift F1>
<ResizeAndPosition 1 2 3 4 5>
<SetActiveWindowTracking On>
<SendWin WoW1>
<Key Oem6> // Key to send to focus win to tell slaves to follow.

<Hotkey ScrollLockOn Alt Shift F2>
<ResizeAndPosition 2 1 3 4 5>
<SetActiveWindowTracking On>
<SendWin WoW2>
<Key Oem6>

<Hotkey ScrollLockOn Alt Shift F3>
<ResizeAndPosition 3 1 2 4 5>
<SetActiveWindowTracking On>
<SendWin WoW3>
<Key Oem6>

<Hotkey ScrollLockOn Alt Shift F4>
<ResizeAndPosition 4 1 2 3 5>
<SetActiveWindowTracking On>
<SendWin WoW4>
<Key Oem6>

<Hotkey ScrollLockOn Alt Shift F5>
<ResizeAndPosition 5 1 2 3 4>
<SetActiveWindowTracking On>
<SendWin WoW5>
<Key Oem6>

//-----------------------------------------------------------
// SUBROUTINE TO Position Windows for 5 boxing.
//-----------------------------------------------------------
<Command ResizeAndPosition>
<SendWinM WoW%1%>
<RemoveWinFrame>
<SetWinRect 0 0 1920 1050>
<SendWinM WoW%2%>
<RemoveWinFrame>
<SetWinRect 1920 0 840 525>
<SendWinM WoW%3%>
<RemoveWinFrame>
<SetWinRect 2760 0 840 525>
<SendWinM WoW%4%>
<RemoveWinFrame>
<SetWinRect 1920 525 840 525>
<SendWinM WoW%5%>
<RemoveWinFrame>
<SetWinRect 2760 525 840 525>

[Glayde]

I thought I was going crazy the other day when it stopped working.
I run two wow's on two machines, and normally I send to "World of Warcraft" on the second machine so I don't need to bother renaming windows.

What seems to happen is that the actual "World of Warcraft" window isn't being recognized. If you put up another window with the "World of Warcraft" title, such as a website, your keystrokes will be sent there. However if the game window is the only titled window matching "World of Warcraft" the keypresses go into the void.

What I found to work was to manually rename my "World of Warcraft" default window to something else and direct the script on my master hotkey client to send to the new name, and not "World of Warcraft."

Hotkeynet simply can't recognize the default "World of Warcraft" window.

[Rafipi]

Yes the problem is to do with how the windows are renamed. I have some code in my script that renames my 2 World of Warcraft instances as WoW1 and WoW2. I have also made my own code to rename them back to World of Warcraft. Just keep playing with renaming the windows until you get it to work. If the windows don't seem to be renamed the first time you press the key, don't worry and try the game anyway. That might be what gets it to work.

[Mamut]

Manually renaming does work, thanks for the tip.

I cannot get any of the usual commands to rename them from a script. It makes me wonder if its some kind of change to hurt botters? Once renamed everything else works just fine.

[Armslave]

Wildflower you got an Ingame Invite from BlueShadow.
So kann man sich direkt austauschen^^