Redoing my config and am lost on some basics
Config: https://pastebin.com/HZfbUPr2
It has been a couple of years since I've done anything serious with ISBoxer. Part of that time I tried out one of the "TrueBox" EQ1 servers and had a good time, but alas my schedule puts me in a position where I'm unreliable as a guild member.
Recently I have some extra time, and figure that I will start over on a regular server and do my own thing for a while. The ISBoxer profile I put together in the past is rather complex and will take some time to figure out. I decided to start a fresh ISBoxer profile (no wizards) and manually add things. This time I'm documenting the process along with abundant screen shots so that the next time I find myself in this position I have a refererence. The reason I mention this is to explain why I'm going backwards from something that works.
Anyhow some things are not working quite right, and I need some help right now. I feel that the problem is a basic misunderstanding on my part of how ISBoxer works. Not a serious one, after all I have a lot working, but something isn't quite right.
1. Let me start with the Virtual G13/G15 keyboards. I have both. I should add that I have a two monitor setup as shown in the Window Layout which uses one full window and a DxNothing display with six mini windows plus other goodies.
I have the menus manually toggling via a keystroke mapped in "Always On" (Load Menu).
I want the hotkeys/button sets to be active from all characters, but only visible on DxNothing. I was able to do this with a duplicate menu where everything was transparent, and show this on everything other than DxNothing. This seems "clunky". I suppose I could use a bunch of Menu Button actions, but that seems clunky as well. I've tried defining an ATG with everything but DxNothing and then sending different menu styles, but this does not allow the keyboard presses to be seen.
I could make global hotkeys, but that would separate the function of the menus into different parts of the config. I would prefer to have one set of Button Sets to edit. Ideally there would be some sort of style which would just not draw the buttons on some screens.
OK, I am a bit OCD about those displays. The config I pasted works, but seems inelegant.
My experiments broke the menus such that reloading the profile wouldn't fix things. I needed to log out all characters and load the profile from the Innerspace system tray icon before the menus would work again.
2. Single Keypress Follow/Assist
I am remapping virtual keys for the active character. This is through the Character Set slots, "When I switch to this character...". I note that when a profile is sent to ISBoxer this does not automatically fire. A minor thing, but I must remember to switch to another character and then back in order for this focus to work. But the focus does work.
If you look at the Button Set "G510 Setup" the G2 key is mapped to follow. This executes "Control: Follow Me" in 199: General Hotkeys, which has two steps. Now the rule is "one key press, one step". I was hoping to use the "on press or release" trick to ensure there is an appropriate delay between assist changing a target, and the follow command. This occasionally works, but usually no.
Setting the menu button to "Hold" and then having the "199" hotkey set to "on press or release" sometimes works if I hold the key down for a second. But I suspect that the focus is not always working correctly. Just now I changed to my bard, and no matter how long I held the key down before release, everyone followed the previous focus. If I activated another character and then returned to the Bard then everything was OK. I'm able to repeat this behavior. About 1/3 of the time the focus change does not occur.
Well I think I'll leave this at two issues and add more posts later. Nothing is gained by burying an issue in the middle of a long post.
Thanks for being here to help.
Edit: Adding a popup text action to the end of the focus change seems to make a positive difference
It has been a couple of years since I've done anything serious with ISBoxer. Part of that time I tried out one of the "TrueBox" EQ1 servers and had a good time, but alas my schedule puts me in a position where I'm unreliable as a guild member.
Recently I have some extra time, and figure that I will start over on a regular server and do my own thing for a while. The ISBoxer profile I put together in the past is rather complex and will take some time to figure out. I decided to start a fresh ISBoxer profile (no wizards) and manually add things. This time I'm documenting the process along with abundant screen shots so that the next time I find myself in this position I have a refererence. The reason I mention this is to explain why I'm going backwards from something that works.
Anyhow some things are not working quite right, and I need some help right now. I feel that the problem is a basic misunderstanding on my part of how ISBoxer works. Not a serious one, after all I have a lot working, but something isn't quite right.
1. Let me start with the Virtual G13/G15 keyboards. I have both. I should add that I have a two monitor setup as shown in the Window Layout which uses one full window and a DxNothing display with six mini windows plus other goodies.
I have the menus manually toggling via a keystroke mapped in "Always On" (Load Menu).
I want the hotkeys/button sets to be active from all characters, but only visible on DxNothing. I was able to do this with a duplicate menu where everything was transparent, and show this on everything other than DxNothing. This seems "clunky". I suppose I could use a bunch of Menu Button actions, but that seems clunky as well. I've tried defining an ATG with everything but DxNothing and then sending different menu styles, but this does not allow the keyboard presses to be seen.
I could make global hotkeys, but that would separate the function of the menus into different parts of the config. I would prefer to have one set of Button Sets to edit. Ideally there would be some sort of style which would just not draw the buttons on some screens.
OK, I am a bit OCD about those displays. The config I pasted works, but seems inelegant.
My experiments broke the menus such that reloading the profile wouldn't fix things. I needed to log out all characters and load the profile from the Innerspace system tray icon before the menus would work again.
2. Single Keypress Follow/Assist
I am remapping virtual keys for the active character. This is through the Character Set slots, "When I switch to this character...". I note that when a profile is sent to ISBoxer this does not automatically fire. A minor thing, but I must remember to switch to another character and then back in order for this focus to work. But the focus does work.
If you look at the Button Set "G510 Setup" the G2 key is mapped to follow. This executes "Control: Follow Me" in 199: General Hotkeys, which has two steps. Now the rule is "one key press, one step". I was hoping to use the "on press or release" trick to ensure there is an appropriate delay between assist changing a target, and the follow command. This occasionally works, but usually no.
Setting the menu button to "Hold" and then having the "199" hotkey set to "on press or release" sometimes works if I hold the key down for a second. But I suspect that the focus is not always working correctly. Just now I changed to my bard, and no matter how long I held the key down before release, everyone followed the previous focus. If I activated another character and then returned to the Bard then everything was OK. I'm able to repeat this behavior. About 1/3 of the time the focus change does not occur.
Well I think I'll leave this at two issues and add more posts later. Nothing is gained by burying an issue in the middle of a long post.
Thanks for being here to help.
Edit: Adding a popup text action to the end of the focus change seems to make a positive difference