New multi-boxer and an AoE spell question

[MrHepp]

The WoW client itself can detect this. There's no need for Warden here. A program knows when it's minimized unless some other program has done something blatantly illicit like intercepting its messages and DLL calls.

I have been playing my slaves in minimized windows for a couple of months now, and so far Blizzard has not banned me.

I should probably ask a GM about this, but I assume that the WoW client has detected this and that Blizzard would have banned me a long time ago if it violated the EULA. (Or does Blizzard wait for several months before they ban people?)

[Freddie]

I think it's impossible to send mouse clicks to minimized windows, at least in Windows (I don't know anything about the OS X APIs)..

If you wanted to do this, it's certainly possible:

PostMessage ( hwnd, WM_LBUTTONDOWN, 0, 0 );

It would be trivial for the receiving program to decide not to react to the message, since it can find out with a single line of code that it's minimized.

[Ughmahedhurtz]

Windows being minimized or not has no bearing on this. The only two things at issue are the standard "automation" angle (which sounds like you're good on) and how you "inject" your keys/clicks. The latter meaning that certain ways of manipulating the client may fall afoul of standard usage and trip you up but on the surface it doesn't sound like it'd be a problem.