5 box - 2 computer - Questions about Box number 2

[Xaga]

Ok, so my setup is 1 account on Box 1 (main toon)

4 accounts on Box 2 (slave)

I am trying to setup WoW Maximizer to make the screen split into 4 nice pretty windows, but not having any luck. If I am doing this, would AutoHotKey work or would I need to use Keyclone. If AHK does work, how do i get the screens to split? Screen Res 1024x768.

Thanks Guys!

[Katharsis]

Take a look at Hotkeynet which has the window resizing features. I like the toggle feature which lets me play all my windows at full size and toggle between them.

[Freddie]

Here's how you could do it with HotkeyNet. There are two hotkeys here. The first one renames the WoW windows so HotkeyNet can manipulate them individually. The second resizes and positions them. HotkeyNet can also remove the window borders and lots of other things but I'm keeping the example short. If you want to know more, ask away.

<Hotkey Ctrl R>
<Rename "World of Warcraft" wow1>
<Rename "World of Warcraft" wow2>
<Rename "World of Warcraft" wow3>
<Rename "World of Warcraft" wow4>

<hotkey F1>
<TargetWindow wow1>
<SetWinPos 0 0>
<SetWinSize 512 384>

<TargetWindow wow2>
<SetWinPos 512 0>
<SetWinSize 512 384>

<TargetWindow wow3>
<SetWinPos 0 384>
<SetWinSize 512 384>

<TargetWindow wow4>
<SetWinPos 512 384>
<SetWinSize 512 384>

[keyclone]

doing this in keyclone is fairly trivial. and you have many options to make this as easy as you'd like.

just click-drag the regions you want into the position you want on the layout editor. then just enable maximizer.
if you have auto-add enabled, then when you start your wow and it appears in the list... just right click and select 'maximize...' and select the region you want it to go to

also.. for your convenience, you could create a command for each wow... in each, specify the region you want it to run. then just type the command name in the front of keyclone when it starts.

beyond that, you could even put the commands into the startup-commmand section.. thus starting your wows when you start keyclone.

i would also fill-in the auto-connect field with the ip and port of the main machine... thus completing the process.

if you followed these instructions, just by running keyclone on both of your machines... they would end up connected with all your wows in maximizer and ready for password with just 2 double-clicks (1 per machine). it doesn't get any simpler then that (well... it does if you put keyclone in your startup group... but that only works if you have dedicated game machines)

if you have any questions, please feel free to drop me a note.

have a great day,

Rob

[Xaga]

Thanks for the replies guys. Trying to do this on hotkeynet before paying for keyclone (though from the tutorial keyclone looks to be pretty simple).

I have 4 wow folders, each named World of Warcraft1, 2, etc. I put in the lines above to change the window settings using the F1 hotkey, and it keeps telling me it can't find the windows. Can you explain to me where I am going wrong here?

Thanks guys!

[Xaga]

Ok,

got the the program to recognize and rename the windows, but it isn't positioning them on the screen. It just keeps them minimized at the bottom.

[Freddie]

The sample I gave you doesn't minimize windows, and it assumes you're starting out with open windows.

Edit: That sample gets used like this. Open your four WoW windows. They should be the only four things on your desktop named World of Warcraft. Then press Ctrl R to rename them. Then press F1 to resize and reposition them.

[Xaga]

ok, so here is what I am doing.

Open wow 1-4. run HKN, swap back over to wow# and then Ctrl-R(works) and F1. at that point, the window i am in gets shifted into position one (regardless which wow# it is) and the rest of the screen is black and flickering. Am I still getting the process wrong, or is there another way to do this?

Thanks Freddie.

[Freddie]

I'm sorry, I forgot you're using two PCs. I wrote that sample as if you would load it and run it and press keys for it on the second PC (the one with the four toons). But you probably want to press keys to do those actions on your main PC. If that's the case, the file has to be written as follows, then loaded into HotkeyNet on the main PC. Fill in the IP address of the second PC where indicated.

<Hotkey Ctrl R>
<SendPC  SECOND_PC_IP_ADDRESS>
<Rename "World of Warcraft" wow1>
<Rename "World of Warcraft" wow2>
<Rename "World of Warcraft" wow3>
<Rename "World of Warcraft" wow4>

<hotkey F1>
<SendPC SECOND_PC_IP_ADDRESS>
<TargetWindow wow1>
<SetWinPos 0 0>
<SetWinSize 512 384>

<TargetWindow wow2>
<SetWinPos 512 0>
<SetWinSize 512 384>

<TargetWindow wow3>
<SetWinPos 0 384>
<SetWinSize 512 384>

<TargetWindow wow4>
<SetWinPos 512 384>
<SetWinSize 512 384>

[Xaga]

I would like to do it all on the 2nd box if possible, but if that is too messy then I can do it from box 1. I just don't understand where it is going wrong on box two.