mouse broadcasting activation/deactivate

[thelionman]

I would love to have the activate/deactivate be the same key! so I hit my "-" key it "toggles" mouse on and hit"-" key and to toggle it off.

The whole idea of broadcasting is to be able to "quickly" AE with all toons and be back in business. Toggle would be better for this imo ( less keybinds used up )

[Ualaa]

With IS Boxer, you have three options for mouse broadcasting (which they call repeater).

With repeater enabled, mouse movements and clicks (or modifier keys + clicks) are passed to every other window.

You can configure keymaps where a given hotkey will automatically turn on mouse broadcasting for all clients, or only specified clients, until the next mouse click. So I can press "4" which is an AoE key on my Bear druid, move my mouse around the screen and see the AoE target circle on my mage, warlock and priest. A right click cancels the spell as normal and a left click places the Blizzard, Shadowfury and Mass Dispel; once a click is done broadcasting is off.

The final option is to create repeater regions, where any mouse movement within the region automatically turns on broadcasting for specified clients -- which is amazing for click to heal addons like Vuhdo, Healbot or Clique used in conjunction with Grid or OpenRDX.




I think the 2nd option would by far be the strongest in actual play, for placing ground target AoE's.
If I was programming PB, I'd try to implement something similar.

On a keybind press, a keymap activates broadcasting and turns it off with a click. That way you never need to turn on broadcasting to place an AoE, and never need to remember to turn it off.

The other two broadcast modes have very good uses too, but for ground AoE's broadcasting on a per keymap basis is gold.