AHK Wiki

[thinus]

I updated the Wiki page for AHK. Feedback/suggestions required.

AHK Wiki

[Djarid]

Excellent piece of work Thinus. No whinges from me on that one

[Chorizotarian]

Great guide! I suggest adding a caveat somewhere about sending multiple keypresses in one AHK key script. It's kind of a gray area IMO. Some board members would probably say that your targeting approach is out of bounds because you send 2 virtual keypresses for 1 physical one. Others would say that you are fine because there are no delays. My personal take is to avoid it as much as possible just to be safe, but it is a PITA having to set up a macro for every spell...

[thinus]

Great guide! I suggest adding a caveat somewhere about sending multiple keypresses in one AHK key script. It's kind of a gray area IMO. Some board members would probably say that your targeting approach is out of bounds because you send 2 virtual keypresses for 1 physical one. Others would say that you are fine because there are no delays. My personal take is to avoid it as much as possible just to be safe, but it is a PITA having to set up a macro for every spell...

There was recently a discussion about macroing with the G15 and that Blizzard is fine with it as long as it doesn't have delays anywhere and doesn't automate anything. Sending multiple key codes from AHK is basically the same as using the G15 to do it, it is fine as long as you don't have delays anywhere.

But your point is noted. I will add a section outlining ToS concerns and grey areas.

[Chorizotarian]

Oooh, I'd like to read that thread. It would give me a lot of piece of mind to know what's legal. WoW general forum?

[Chorizotarian]

Here's an example of the greyness in this area, even from Bliz (emphasis mine):

On my G15 at home, I have plenty of the G keys macroed to /cast <stance> and a lot of other things. It's a keyboard string so you'll have to record it into the G keys as that. Usage such as those are fine. Doing multiple things on a single button such as ( walk forward, wait for so and so, tab key, /cast fireball(rank 5)) is the type of play that is prohibited.
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Game and keyboard works fine. Just don't automate things too much and you will be ok. I haven't been banned yet for the G15. :P

http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/th...321064&sid=1#2

It would be great to have an explicit definition of "too much". For now I'm taking it to mean 1) no delays, 2) no getting around game mechanics (multiple spells with 1 click), 3) no actions that are not easily achievable by a singleboxer by in-game means. Currently I only send multiple keypresses for my "spread out in a line" button (the extra keys are walk on/off to stagger the line). I think that's ok because the action is 100% controlled by me and the multiple keypresses only provide a limited version of something that singleboxers take for granted.

[Chorizotarian]

Applogies for a 2nd reply to my own post..

Here is a more definitive statement:

So long as your use of the keyboard does not involve creating macros that allow you to control your character without being actively at your computer -- or otherwise automate behaviour that requires hardware commands -- you should be square.

http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/th...525514&sid=1#3

[thinus]

Here is the dual-boxing thread: Yay, my first blue response....semi-MB related

And the WoW Forums thread: Another G15/Macro's question


It seems Blizzard feels that if you can do it with an in-game macro then you can do it with an out-of-game macro.

[Tasty]

Thats some nice clean coding you have there. Great job

[thinus]

Thats some nice clean coding you have there. Great job

See the credits Most of it is not mine, thank Splorygon.