ISBoxer 41
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ISBoxer 41 was officially released as of 2013-05-06!
ISBoxer 41 requires Inner Space build 5799 or later.
New Menu system
ISBoxer 41 introduces a new fundamental system for Menus, which are essentially a blend of Key Maps and Click Bars.
- ISBoxer Menu concepts
- Template - The Template defines the number of Menu Buttons available for a Menu, as well as its visual appearance and layout. Template styles currently available include Grid (similar to Click Bars), Radial (a popup Menu that centers on your mouse cursor when activated), and XML (fully customizable)
- Button Set - A Button Set defines behavior (e.g. Actions performed when a button is activated) and appearance for each of a set of Menu Buttons
- Hotkey Set - A Hotkey Set defines a set of Hotkeys that can be assigned to a Menu. Hotkey Sets are not required, but can be used to activate Menu Buttons without clicking on the GUI.
- Menu - A Menu is a combination of Template, Button Set and Hotkey Set!
- Random tidbits about Menus
- Menus are designed to simplify ISBoxer configuration management and eliminate problems associated with configuring Key Maps and Click Bars, such as...
- FAQ: I added a new Key Map but the Key Maps toggle does not disable it? - with Menus, it is possible to use a single "pause" and "unpause" to temporarily disable the assigned Hotkeys for all Menus
- Dynamic Click Bar buttons, like the default Key Maps and Repeater toggles, can't be placed in additional Click Bars without specifically setting up new Actions to handle the new buttons. With Menus, it is possible to reuse Menu Buttons in more than one Menu or Button Set, with any dynamic changes to the original Menu Button automatically propagating to each!
Due to the new Menu system, ISBoxer 41's Quick Setup Wizard will generate a different configuration style than ISBoxer 40.
New Quick Setup Wizard
ISBoxer's Quick Setup Wizard has received a complete overhaul.
- The Characters page is now unified and improved.
- A tree of available/generated Characters is provided
- Game and Profile selection is now done on a per-Character basis
- CPU Strategy selection provides a better preview of CPU load balancing and offers a better suggested setting (e.g. one that fully utilizes all CPU cores) than simply defaulting to round-robin strategy in all cases. If playing Diablo 3 or Path of Exile, the default FPS options will both be 30/30 instead of 60/30 (Foreground/Background).
- A new configuration style page replaces the Key Maps and Click Bars check boxes that previously donned the final page
- Different types of games will have a different configuration style suggested than others, so for example a configuration generated for games like Diablo 3 would favor Broadcasting Mode, while for games like World of Warcraft it would favor Key Maps and Menus.
- MMO players are given an opportunity to choose between a visible Menu or an invisible Key Map, for standard 1 through = Broadcasting Hotkeys
- Common Hotkeys and game Key Bindings (including per-slot Targeting) can be configured at this stage of the wizard
- Key Maps and Action Target Groups can also be selectively assigned from existing or suggested ones
- FTL Modifiers are automatically generated for RIFT; previously this required manual configuration by following RIFT: Basic Multiboxing Macros Walkthrough
Other changes implemented
- The ISBoxer Control Panel and other in-game GUI received a facelift
- Fixed a bug with Broadcasting the " key on various keyboards
- The Quick Setup Wizard no longer selects "Other" by default, making it less likely to forget to select the right game when necessary...
- The Window Layout Wizard no longer allows you to click Next without selecting a Window Layout
- The Window Layout Wizard now includes existing Window Layouts in the available styles
- Menu State Action can load, unload, pause or un-pause a Menu; or clear all loaded Menus, Pause or Un-pause all Menu Hotkeys
- Menu Style Action can attach a Hotkey Set to a Menu, detach all Hotkey Sets from the Menu, or apply a Button Set to the menu (optionally at a button offset within the menu)
- Menu Button Action can adjust individual properties of a Menu Button either directly in a live Menu, or within a Button Set (propagating changes to active Menus!)
- Hotkey Set Action can attach a Hotkey Set to a Menu, detach a Hotkey Set from any Menus, or copy Hotkeys from a different Hotkey Set to replace the current ones
- Volume Action can adjust per-instance volume levels, such as to mute background instances
- The Transparency and Masking options for Click Bar images (which are no longer just for Click Bars) should now work
- Click Bar Buttons editor now includes updated labelling for the Grid and Cell sizing, to reduce confusion
- An FTL modifier option has been added to Keystroke Action, Variable Keystroke Action, and Named WoW Macro Action. At this point this seems more appropriate than applying to an entire Mapped Key or Key Map...
- Multiple Keystroke Actions within the same Step used to be combined (e.g. any Keystroke being passed to the same Target as another) and placed at the end of the Step, sometimes resulting in a different order of events than expected. Now the behavior is to combine them into the first Keystroke Action matching that target, at its defined position in the Step.
- A Character Set option can automatically Mute background windows (as can be done Volume Actions); this new option is enabled by default by the Quick Setup Wizard
