FFXIV - HotkeyNet - using modifiers alt, ctrl

[Seth45]

Hi,

I started with dual boxing today, I'm completely new to both multiboxing and scripting, nonetheless I managed to adapt all those scripts available for wow to work with FFXIV as well. What I however cannot make work is modifiers.

FFXIV has way too many skills to be handled via 1-9, so I have 3 bars of skills and I use alt and ctrl to switch between bars.
That means:
Bar 1 = 1-9
Bar 2 = alt + 1-9
Bar 3 = ctrl + 1-9

There are more keys involved, but the logic is the same.
I tried googling solutions, but nothing I found has worked so far, not in the slightest, could anyone give me a tip how to make it work please?

This is the simple script I "glued" together:

//==================================================
// Script For Two FF’s On One PC With Cloned Commands “FF1”
//==================================================


<KeyList MainKeyList A-Z, Numpad0-Numpad9, 0-9, Enter, Tab, Oem4, Comma, Oem6, plus, minus, decimal, NumpadMinus, NumpadPlus, except C, B, M, L, N, O, W, A, S, D, X, P, Space>


<Label f1 Local SendWinM FF1>
<Label f2 Local SendWinM FF2>


<Hotkey ScrollLockon MainKeyList>
<SendLabel f1, f2>
<Key %Trigger%>


//-----------------------------------------------------------
// PRESS CTRL R TO RENAME FF'S IF YOU LAUNCH THEM MANUALLY
//-----------------------------------------------------------
<Hotkey ScrollLockOn Ctrl R>
    <SendPC local>
        <RenameWin "FINAL FANTASY XIV" FF1>
        <RenameWin "FINAL FANTASY XIV" FF2>




<Hotkey ScrollLockOn Ctrl T>
    <SendPC local>
        <RenameWin FF1 "FINAL FANTASY XIV">
        <RenameWin FF2 "FINAL FANTASY XIV">
//-----------------------------------------------------------

[Wubsie]

Not used the program in years anymore at this point, but AFAIK you could just define them like this:

<Hotkey ScrollLockon Alt MainKeyList>
<SendLabel f1, f2>
<Key %Trigger%>

<Hotkey ScrollLockon Ctrl MainKeyList>
<SendLabel f1, f2>
<Key %Trigger%>

This of course uses your MainKeyList so in theory at least it gives you modifier options for all keys defined in it. I guess you could just do it similar to this as well.

<Hotkey ScrollLockon Alt 0-9>
<SendLabel f1, f2>
<Key %Trigger%>

Take this with a grain of salt OFC since I'm not able to test this currently.

[Seth45]

Thank you for the reply. I tested this solution too, but it just didn't work at all at first.
Later I found a very old topic from 2009 which suggested changing SendWinM to SendWinS, which didn't work either until I fiddled with the Send mode settings and unchecked "Send new SendWinS and SendWinSF". Now it's working, sort of... A very strange thing is happening, when I'm in window 1 the modifier works only for window 2 and window 1 behaves as if I did not push alt. When I go to window 2 and try it, everything works as it should, both windows use alt + 1-9.

I see no reason for this to be happening, the log in HotkeyNet looks okay, no errors, succefully sent alt +1-9 to both windows, so I have a bad feeling that this is simply a bug in HotkeyNet. This issue always affects the window named FF1, so when swap the window names, the issue moves to the other character/window. Luckily I only need it working on the lead window, so it's something I can live with.

Thank you again, I'll post the current script, maybe you'll see something strange, but it's so simple that it's dicfficult to really mess something up
Btw. if there's a better free software that would work with FFXIV I'm all ears ) Thanks!

//==================================================
// Script For Two FF’s On One PC With Cloned Commands
//==================================================


<KeyList MainKeyList A-Z, Numpad0-Numpad9, 0-9, Enter, Tab, Oem4, Comma, Oem6, plus, minus, decimal, NumpadMinus, NumpadPlus, except C, B, M, L, N, O, W, A, S, D, X, P, Space>


<Label f1 Local SendWinS FF1>
<Label f2 Local SendWinS FF2>


<Hotkey ScrollLockon MainKeyList>
<SendLabel f1, f2>
<Key %Trigger%>


<Hotkey ScrollLockon Alt 0-9>
<SendLabel f1, f2>
<Key %Trigger%>


//-----------------------------------------------------------
// PRESS CTRL R TO RENAME FF'S 
//-----------------------------------------------------------
<Hotkey ScrollLockOn Ctrl R>
    <SendPC local>
        <RenameWin "FINAL FANTASY XIV" FF1>
        <RenameWin "FINAL FANTASY XIV" FF2>


<Hotkey ScrollLockOn Ctrl T>
    <SendPC local>
        <RenameWin FF1 "FINAL FANTASY XIV">
        <RenameWin FF2 "FINAL FANTASY XIV">
//-----------------------------------------------------------