Mouse Broadcasting with HKN

[Ualaa]

HKN = Hot Key Net
HotkeyNet: Home


Hot Key Net, is a free multiboxing software option. One of its features is phenomenal mouse broadcasting, which can be used in conjunction with whatever boxing software you currently use.



Original post by Karuga87 on D-B.com/showthread.php?t=32741



I thought I'd write a 12 STEP Guide to Earthquake. I tried and failed to find a decent one and thus wrote my own.

I'm not sure if everyone uses this spell as boxers but since learning how to do this simultaneously I can't recommend it enough. I thought I'd put this somewhere where more people can find it in case you were like me, absolutely clueless as to where to begin to use earthquake for your shaman of doom team.

Earthquake Guide.

Step 1: Open up a word processing app like Notepad.
Step 2: Copy and paste the text below and save the file as "hotkeynet earthquake". Feel free to replace f5 as the modifier, this is the key you'll press to send the earthquake to the other clients screens so don't make it too complicated :P


<UseKeyAsModifier F5>
<Hotkey F5 LButton>
<SendLabel w1, w2, w3, w4, w5>
<Clickmouse %TriggerMainKey%>
<hotkey ctrl R>
<sendpc local>
<RenameWin "World of Warcraft" w1>
<RenameWin "World of Warcraft" w2>
<RenameWin "World of Warcraft" w3>
<RenameWin "World of Warcraft" w4>
<RenameWin "World of Warcraft" w5>
<hotkey shift R>
<sendpc local>
<RenameWin w1 "World of Warcraft">
<RenameWin w2 "World of Warcraft">
<RenameWin w3 "World of Warcraft">
<RenameWin w4 "World of Warcraft">
<RenameWin w5 "World of Warcraft">

*Thanks to Khatovar for her input*


Step 3: Once saved Download Hotkeynet software
Step 4: Load Hotkeynet
Step 5: Click File, Load script.
Step 6: Now find your saved word file with the text you just saved and load it up.
Step 7: Proceed to load WoW clients with software of choice and log in.
Step 8: You must if you haven't already run WoW in Windowed mode, rather than full screen windowed, this helps when renaming the windows themselves.
Step 9: Now we must rename the windows so hotkeynet can send the earthquakes at the same time. Simples, as we already have the command to do this loaded, the default I've included in the script is "Ctrl R" again, change this if it conflicts with your own macros or keybinds or it won't work. It may take one or two presses of the same key to change all the windows, now all the windows should be renames individually as "w1,w2,w3,w4,w5" etc.

Step10: Make a macro with this for your shamans so they all have the same camera view/distance

#showtooltip
/script SetView(5);SetView(5)
/script CameraZoomOut(20)
/cast earthquake

Keybind all your shamans earthquakes to the same hotkey ingame (mine's 5 if you're wondering)

Step 11: Have a key (closer the better to your earthquake key) you'll PRESS and HOLD DOWN as you left click (mine's F5) to cast the multiple earthquakes Remember that the key has to be one at the top line of the word document "<UseKeyAsModifier f5> f5 being the default i've given".

Step 12: Press step 10's key then HOLD step 11's key down, leftclick the mouse selecting an area nearby to earthquake

Final Step: All shamans should earthquake, proceed to laugh as melee Fall On Floor.

**To change the names of the windows back just press "Shift-R". **

I Hope I've given people a good insight into what some regard as either an inaccessable or useless talent. Seeing as the software is free to get there's no reason why you can't do the same.
I'd love to hear if this guide's helped you. Or if you feel anything could be added to it.

[Ualaa]

Repeater Regions are discreet predefined areas of the screen, which when your mouse enters automatically enables mouse broadcasting -- including clicks, and when your mouse leaves the region disables the mouse broadcasting; all this is done without the need for any keyboard actions.

The largest benefit of a Repeater Region, is when combined with Vuhdo, Healbot or Grid, for click based healing from any screen.

Here is how to do this, with HKN (which is free, and can be used in conjunction with software options that don't support this feature, such as Keyclone or Pwnboxer).

Thanks to Khatovar from Dual-Boxing, for explaining in detail how to do this. This is a direct copy/paste, from her post:





Everyone Mouse Clicks -

Useful for everyone clicking something in the same location on all screens, such as Jamba Item Use Bar, Portals, Stuff on your Hotbars, Menu items.

<Hotkey LButton>
    <If MouseIsOverWindowRect WoW1 755 481 200 200>
                <SendLabel w1, w2, w3, w4, w5>
                <Clickmouse LButton>
                    <RestoreMousePos>
            <Else>
        <SendFocusWin>
                <Clickmouse LButton>

Of course, you'll have to specify the proper coordinates for whatever location you're using. The above ones are directly in the middle of my main's window, only effects Leftclicking and only from the main window for passing {leftclicking on a slave window does not pass to any other windows}. Anywhere outside the specified area sends leftclick only to the active window.

"Auto" AOE -

Useful for Targetted AOE without having to use additional keys or hold modifier keys. For example, the examples earlier in this thread require you to -

1. Activate the targeted spell {IE Earthquake, D&D}
2. Position your cursor
3. Press and hold the modifier key to enable mouse broadcasting
4. Click the mouse to place the spell
5. Release the Modifier.


The following code condenses all of these steps into one keypress and release.

<Hotkey 2>
    <If MouseIsOverWindowRect WoW1 755 481 200 200>
                <SendLabel w1, w2, w3, w4, w5>
                    <Key F11>
            <Else>
            <SendLabel w1, w2, w3, w4, w5>
                <Key 2>

<Hotkeyup 2>
    <If MouseIsOverWindowRect WoW1 755 481 200 200>
                <SendLabel w1, w2, w3, w4, w5>
                <Clickmouse LButton>
                    <RestoreMousePos>
            <Else>
            <SendLabel w1, w2, w3, w4, w5>
                <Key 2>

This turns the REGION into the modifier, because we assume this is the only location where you will ever want to cast AOE.

Mousing over the region you chose while pressing down the key you choose turns on the mouse broadcasting and activates the spell. Releasing the key while still over the region sends the leftclick command. If you move your mouse out of the specified region before releasing the key, the leftclick will not be sent. If you move your mouse out of the region without instituting a keypress, it will send an unmodified command.

This means that you can add this to your spam key {My example uses 2, but you can substitute 3 or whatever your spam key is}. If your mouse is anywhere other than {using my example} the middle of the screen, you're just sending a normal 2 key to your windows. If you move to the middle of the screen, it calls the AOE.

Some additional notes, you can adjust which windows receive the commands by changing the SendLabel to only the desired windows and adding the other windows to the default command

<Hotkey 2>
    <If MouseIsOverWindowRect WoW1 755 481 200 200>
                <SendLabel w1, w4, w5>
                    <Key F11>
                <SendLabel w2, w3>
                    <Key 2>
            <Else>
            <SendLabel w1, w2, w3, w4, w5>
                <Key 2>

"Auto AOE" can be done another way, but that is really, really in the gray area, so I'm not comfortable using or posting it. To be safe, I highly suggest only using the two-step process above.

Note that the coordinates do not place the cursors at specific locations {IE you cannot specify that mousing over the lower right corner of your main window puts the AOE in the middle of the screen.} It's only for defining the region. You can, however, break it up by specifying a different location for the Hotkeyup command

<Hotkey 2>
    <If MouseIsOverWindowRect WoW1 1557 739 20 20>
                <SendLabel w1, w2, w3, w4, w5>
                    <Key F11>
            <Else>
            <SendLabel w1, w2, w3, w4, w5>
                <Key 2>

<Hotkeyup 2>
    <If MouseIsOverWindowRect WoW1 755 481 200 200>
                <SendLabel w1, w2, w3, w4, w5>
                <Clickmouse LButton>
                    <RestoreMousePos>
            <Else>
            <SendLabel w1, w2, w3, w4, w5>
                <Key 2>

This way you can press the key down over an icon-sized space in the lower-right side of your screen to activate the spell and broadcasting, then move your cursor over to the center of your screen and release the key it'll place the reticule there and click. But I don't think that's going to be terribly useful since it'd always send the leftclick whenever you mouse over the center of the screen, even if you don't have the AOE spell on the cursor.

[Baldecaran]

Wow! Awesome post. I saw this at DB.....seeing it again makes me want to give it a shot

Ualaa, I know that you're an ISBoxer user and that it supports repeater regions and mouse broadcasting; Have you tried this HKN configuration?

[Ualaa]

Have not tried HKN at all.
But know quite a few use it.

From people who have used both, the mouse broadcasting is superb with both programs.

I've posted regarding Repeater Regions, as the best way to heal a group, several times here. This is a way for anyone to add that functionality to their set up, regardless of the software they use.

While there's no gain for an IS Boxer user, this should prove useful for anyone using another software option -- and they can continue to enjoy the features of their current software.

[Baldecaran]

Originally Posted by Lavos

Interesting that a lot of information from the dual-boxing site gets cross-posted here on this site, but no one over there needs the information here. I'm sure if the original author wanted it here they would have posted it here themselves, no?

I've noticed that all cross-posts are preceded by the original author and the site from which it came. In the spirit of community, this is much appreciated. I frequent both sites, but perhaps some newer users are not aware of Dual-Boxing's site. And, I certainly cannot speak for any one person from either site, but why wouldn't the author of this content want it consumed by persons from "the other site"?

[Ualaa]

It sucks that there are two sites, that don't get along... because there are two communities, which essentially do the same thing. If something is useful on one site, then more then likely, it will be useful on the other site as well.

Dual-Boxing caters to more software options -- both IS Boxer and Keyclone contribute to the site, and have links at the top of every page. But there are users of Auto Hot Key, Clonekeys (Mac), Game Commander Pro, Hot Key Net, Mojo, Octopus and probably others. The only software really missing is Pwnboxer, and that is because of the falling out between the owner/admins of the two sites. Dual-Boxing is for pretty much every game that can be boxed, not specific to warcraft.

Multiboxing is more interested in stories, news and guides. There are a lot of users here who stream what they're doing, less who post movies. However, there are only a fraction of the number of users here. This is less of a forum, but more of a boxing site. Different approaches, but both are useful to the boxing community. The only software that gets major mention here is Pwnboxer, and 99% of the site boxes Warcraft.

As far as cross posting goes, if I find something interesting on either site -- that happens to be missing from the other, I usually cross post it; and note the original thread and/or author, when doing so.

[hodnee]

Couldn't agree with you more Ualaa .....but as you see people will be people(hints) looking to start problems.

[EaTCarbS]

This thread inspired me to set up my mouse over healing setup for hotkeynet (which works flawlessly btw). I'll have to either add it to this thread or make a new one.

[hodnee]

Yes please do! I have been trying to figure out how I am going to heal with pwnboxer/click healing now that my team is at 70's.

[Tim]

Originally Posted by hodnee

Yes please do! I have been trying to figure out how I am going to heal with pwnboxer/click healing now that my team is at 70's.

Check out Dockable Clickmapping w/some macros that are /cast [target=SomeGuy] for heal spells, it works out quite well.

With that said, one of the major new things currently being developed in Pwnboxer is going to be ultra awesome for this very thing: Main controlling your tank/dps and having your healer be an alt.