5 box - 2 computer - Questions about Box number 2

[Freddie]

Sure you can do it all on the second box. I'm not sure what's wrong. To save time let me say three things at once.

1. You may have accidentally renamed some objects like folders, buttons, etc., on your desktop besides the WoW windows "wow1", "wow2", etc. I've noticed that people do that pretty often when they start out with HKN. The renamed objects may be invisible. If that's the case, then when you press F1, HKN will try to modify those things instead of the WoW windows. Your WoW windows -- when they are open -- should say wow1, wow2, etc. in the title bars on the tops of the windows.

2. I didn't understand what you meant when you said "Open wow 1-4. run HKN, swap back over to wow#". Did you mean you click on one of the WoW windows? That's not necessary. There's nothing in the sample that has anything to do with which window is active or in the foreground. And yet you say "the window I am in" behaves in a distinctive way. But the sample doesn't know which window you're in, so I'm guessing the sample got screwed up somehow. Which leads me to number 3.

3. Could you please post or email me the entire contents of your file?

[Xaga]

Swing and a miss. same issue. One screen gets put into position one, they others aren't there with a flickering screen to hold thier place.

[Freddie]

How about trying some simple things to figure out what's wrong. Reboot the PC to start from scratch. Load just one copy of WoW. Don't rename it. Load this new file. Press F2, F3, F4, F5. Each time it will try to move that single WoW to one of the four spots. I'm leaving renaming out completely in case that's the problem.

<Hotkey F2>
<TargetWindow "World of Warcraft">
<SetWinSize 512 384
<SetWinPos 0 0>

<Hotkey F3>
<TargetWindow "World of Warcraft">
<SetWinSize 512 384
<SetWinPos 512 0>

<Hotkey F4>
<TargetWindow "World of Warcraft">
<SetWinSize 512 384
<SetWinPos 0 384>

<Hotkey F5>
<TargetWindow "World of Warcraft">
<SetWinSize 512 384
<SetWinPos 512 384>

[Xaga]

Loaded it, and it sent it to the top left each time, same error. rest of the screen was flashing blank.



** I also added the closed braces at the end of the SetWinSize lines, not sure if you left them out intentionally. Initially, it would not recognize them**

[Freddie]

Yep, you did the right thing about the brackets.

I just realized -- are you doing this in fullscreen mode? To change a window size, you need to be in windowed mode. There's a check box in WoW's video settings for that. If that's the case, my apologies for not thinking of it sooner. I'm not used to doing customer support.

[Joe_Boxer]

Hey guys I'm dual-boxing on my laptop, I use hotkeynet and it works great, but my laptop won't support windowed modes, only fullscreen, so it's not possible for me to run them side by side. No problem, as my hotkey setup works well enough that I really never need to see my second character's screen... until I need to loot something or accept/turn in quests. At that point I alt tab between them to do whatever I need to do then alt tab back to my main's window. The alt tabbing process always takes several seconds to minimize the one and bring up the other, I wonder if there's a way using hotkeynet to INSTANTLY toggle between them without any delay?

[saabik]

I use Octopus for my 2-box (5-man) setup. The VM itself provides smooth transition even in non-window mode. I used the built in maximizer and have 4 cascaded windows on the 2nd computer running perfectly. I would recommend this option if you do not like your current ones.