Using 5 regions (one not always active) for four accounts

Hi,

I was looking around, and i probably missed this, but here is what i'm trying to achieve.


-2 monitors
-I have 4 accounts currently that i want to use
-I set up 5 regions; 4 on monitor B and 1 on monitor A (main window)

I want to be able to keep those 4 mini regions on monitor B, but have the option to focus them on monitor A in the main region. However, I don't necessarily always want to have an account on my main. Is this possible?

An example:
My four accounts are sitting on monitor B, in the 4 mini regions. Monitor A, with the main region, is empty. I hit my swap hotkey on region 5, it swaps that mini region to the main region (region 1) on monitor A. I hit swap again, the window goes back to monitor B, and monitor A once again has nothing on it.

[lax]

Yes, it is possible.

First, you will need to change the swapping drop-down in your Window Layout to not start with "always" in order to achieve this. This drop-down box is what makes the window automatically swap when you switch. If you set it to "only when I press the Swap Hotkey" for example, this gives you a Hotkey (configured directly below the drop-down) that you would press within a specific Window in order to bring it into the Active Region (where one of your windows will go at launch).

The only piece you will be missing is a method (Hotkey) to push the window from the Active Region into its Home Region.

Here's how to make it

1. In the top left pane under Key Maps, select a Key Map to put your new Hotkey in. If your Hotkey will not be something that interferes with your ability to type (e.g. if you make it Pause or something, you don't normally need that key for other purposes), you could put it in the "Always On" Key Map (called "Control" for WoW players), otherwise you could put it in either the Combat or Non-combat and it will be toggled by the standard Key Maps toggle.
2. In the bottom left pane, right click Mapped Keys and select New Mapped Key
3. Give your new Mapped Key a name so that it's not "New Mapped Key", e.g. "Push window back". To rename it you can right click and select Rename, or press F2.
4. In the bottom right pane, at the top, set the Hotkey by clicking the <. This is the key you will press to push the window back.
5. In the bottom left pane, expand your Mapped Key ("Push window back" in my example) so that under it you should see Steps, 1
6. Select Step 1 (the 1 under Steps)
7. In the bottom right pane, right click Actions and, under Window Actions, select New Window State Action
8. Now, to the right of that, you will have a couple of options...
8a. Set the Target drop-down to "Window:All w/ Current" - this will tell it to send every window to the Home region, so you can use this hotkey from any window not just the one that's in the Active Region
8b. Set the "Where" to "Background" (another way of saying its Home Region); this is default
8c. Set the "How" to "Instantly (emulate)"; this is default. This option affects window swapping speed and whether the display may be scaled (which is fast to switch) instead of adjusting the resolution (which is slow to switch).
9. Export to Inner Space to activate your changes

That should do it.

Hey Lax or anyone, First off thanks for you're software its a great help however i am stuck i read this and got it setup the same way but using 6 accounts + 7th region thats nonactive at start all works by using Cntrl + F9 to swap to larger window.

But is there a way to make the larger screen revert back to inactive and send the current active in that 7th region back to its orginal Area on pressing a diff hotkey or the same one again?

Never mind Figured it out.

Keymap = Swap window - Puts in window then click on another small one and press key again.. lawl so easy to easy for my brain to work out.

I can't figure this out.

I have 5 slots and a 6th blank region. I can get them to swap to this region, but I cannot get the key to send the slot in region 6 back to its home region. Essentially making region 6 blank whenever i want it to be.

[Alge]

I can't figure this out.

I have 5 slots and a 6th blank region. I can get them to swap to this region, but I cannot get the key to send the slot in region 6 back to its home region. Essentially making region 6 blank whenever i want it to be.

Did you follow Steps 1 to 9 in Lax's post? They walk you through setting up a Hotkey that does exactly this. If you did and it still isn't working, you will need to share your configuration so I or someone else can take a look at it.

[lax]

I would like to offer an alternative. Here's what I do for my 4 Diablo 3 windows on 2 monitors.



On the left is my main screen, with the "Full Screen Stacked" style of Window Layout. On the right is one dxNothing window added to the Character Set. It's a blank canvas I can use for ISBoxer widgets, like the 4 Video FX views you see.

The Video FX are configured as fully interactive, so I can click or use the keyboard in any of them as needed without bringing the window to the focus. I have the Video FX focus Hotkey enabled on all of the views, so I can Alt+Mouse1 to focus any of them. I also use my per-slot Hotkeys as needed, etc.

The one caveat to doing this is that it is an additional window in your Character Set, so if you set up custom Round-robin and whatnot this window is included in "all" windows. So it will eat one of the keystrokes needlessly and appear to do nothing. You can work around that by creating an Action Target Group that includes the actual Diablo 3 Characters in it, and set the Target for your Round-robin to be that ATG instead of all windows.

Thanks for posting that Lax - I'm also 4 boxing witchdoctors and I was decently happy with my old setup but I switched to yours (4 stacked & videoFX feeds on the dxNothing window in the second monitor) about a week ago and it's even better.

The only issue I'm still looking to resolve is having to squint at the videoFX feeds when I'm picking up loot. This is probably more of an issue for me than other people because my secondary monitor isn't as nice as my main monitor (main is a 24" 1920x1200, second is a cheap 22" 1680x1050 that I had lying around). I'm running all 4 diablo instances @ 1920x1200 and I have the videoFX windows on the secondary monitor sized to 824x515 (I had them at 825x525 but I wanted to make the ratio exactly 1.6:1 to see if that helped the clarity at all). I'm mostly concerned that I might miss seeing a legendary drop in one of the secondary windows since the font color on legendaries is dark.

Any recommendations on things that have made it easier to see dropped items (zoom on rollover maybe? I don't know if you can do that with videoFX feeds). Hotkey the instances and switch through them on the main monitor? Maybe I just need a better secondary monitor. If anybody else has any ideas I'm definitely all ears.

EDIT: Having the videoFX windows exactly match the aspect ratio (16:10) of the in-game diablo 3 resolution helped. I also tweaked the brightness/contrast/gamma settings for that monitor which helped a lot in dark areas but washes out text in bright areas. I'll play with it a while and adjust as needed. I'd still be interested in hearing how people visually scan for loot.

Another thing I thought about was using the sound effects when items drop to give me a shot of noticing that a legendary dropped. Normally I only run with sound on my main window (and it's a mix of all the categories, music, ambient, voices, etc) but I thought about figuring out which sound category the "dropped item" sounds are under (ie if a rare drops that makes a different sound than a legendary) and just running that sound category on all 4 of the windows. That way I can drop a legendary i already own on the ground a few times, get used to the sound, then pay attention for that sound while playing.