AutoHotKey

[Ellay]

AutoHotKey is an application that allows you to send a keystroke to more than 1 client on the same PC. It is scriptable and open source. There is another application called Keyclone that provides similar functionality but without the scripting. If AHK does not work for you and you do not want to go pure hardware, take a look at Keyclone.

http://www.autohotkey.com/

For those planning on dual-boxing with just 1 PC this is the application for you. Being able to push keystrokes on 1 screen and it sending the same to the other greatly enhances the effectiveness.
Although it does take a bit to set up, this is an example of setting up the "2" key to be sent to both World of Warcraft clients.

Code:
WinGet, wowid, List, World of Warcraft

~2::
KeyWait 2
IfWinActive, World of Warcraft
{
ControlSend,, 2, ahk_id %wowid1%
ControlSend,, 2, ahk_id %wowid2%
Return
}

Learning Curve - Medium - High

Post Reviews, Suggestions, and Comments below.

[Los]

Im somewhat afraid of useing these kinds of tools. Because this could be rated as third party software. Any comments on it?

[Smeagoldfish]

Was kinda wondering about this aswell. Anyone got a clue?

[Rahjak]

Been using it with WoW for quite some time. I've never gotten any hiccup or call from a gm while using it. I doubt it could fall under Warden's hammer because all it's doing is duplicating a keystroke. As far as Warden is concerned, it just looks like another set of hands.

Warden can't really tell what the program is doing. Just that it's running. That program doesn't interact with WoW, so Warden doesn't care.

I'll keep on using it until a GM makes it an issue.

[Micah]

The first thing on the list of Auto Hotkey features:

Automate almost anything by sending keystrokes and mouse clicks.

Because of this they may decide to ban it at some point, especially if a lot of players start using it to macro. Based on past precedence, you won't be contacted by a GM, instead you will just have a banned account the next day. If all Auto Hotkey did was allow you to send keystrokes to a background process I doubt they would care but you can write fully automated game play with it as well.

[Ellay]

Very true Micah, if anyone does get any type of message from a GM or a legitimate response stating that it is against the TOS please let me know so we can remove said application.

[Anverc]

I asked a GM last night and he said it should be ok. Then I forgot to screenshot I'll ask the next GM i talk to (should I end up needing to talk to one anytime in the near future) so i can actually get a screen shot.

[Shiakhan]

Hmm, this worked perfectly on 32 Bit Windows XP, but now that I'm on 64 bit, it doesn't work so well. I am triple-boxing, and sometimes the third World of Warcraft window will not receive the key strokes. I can usually resolve this by closing and restarting the World of Warcraft window completely, and then restarting the script. I guess it is because Autohotkey doesn't support 64 bit quite yet.

[Nocturne]

I'll give it a try on my x64 box tonight and post my results.

[Nocturne]

Anyone found a better way to send Shift+key sequences? This is cumbersome and does not work 100% the way I would like it to. It also prevents me from typing !,@,#,$,%, or ^ outside of WoW which is really irritating and likely due to my inept attempt at writing in the script.

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WinGet, wowid, List, World of Warcraft

; *** Begin Action Bar sequence ***

~Shift & 1::
IfWinActive, World of Warcraft
{
ControlSend,,{shift down}{1 down}{1 up}{shift up}, ahk_id %wowid1%
ControlSend,,{shift down}{1 down}{1 up}{shift up}, ahk_id %wowid2%
return
}

~Shift & 2::
IfWinActive, World of Warcraft
{
ControlSend,,{shift down}{2 down}{2 up}{shift up}, ahk_id %wowid1%
ControlSend,,{shift down}{2 down}{2 up}{shift up}, ahk_id %wowid2%
return
}
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