wow / isboxer pro oddity

[hpavc]

Hello, I am trying to switch to using the out of the box pro-system a bit more and have a question about the virtual keymap 'virtual mapped keys' and a behavior that i would like to overcome.

In this near virgin config ... http://www.privatepaste.com/99734606f3 ... I have just two new characters right out of the pro config wizard with just two new keymaps and two named macros.

There is an odd behavior when i 'dps rotation' combat key' the priest / healer character with no assigned steps will perform steps of another virtual keymap "do target me in non-combat keymap -> self".

The effect is that while dps characters are dpsing (and the foreground window is the dpser), all the other characters are assisting.

This becomes a complication if you want to have characters fight' and other characters 'heal' (pressing backspace and h) at times as the healer will at times heal themselves (rather than healing the hostile) as the to /assist {FTL} is pressed between /targetexact {FTL} the /cast flash heal is fired. Pretty easy to see in a larger group, some lag and serious button mashing.

In the pro config page ... http://isboxer.com/wiki/HOWTO:Configure ... like_a_pro ... and video the assist me is done in the 'combat hot keys', this behavior is the same if its there or in the actual virtual private hot key. i would expect it to be the same in the combat hot keys as that has yet to be 'virtualized' to the specific character/slot. i am additionally restricted it in this example to "-> paladin"

I am sure that somehow the assist me is jumping of out 'scope', i just dont see how to address this easily as the virtualization should have scoped it.

Thanks again!

the combat keymap

Code:

- dps rotation (backspace)
  - do dps rotation in virtual combat key map -> paladin
- taunt (h for heal)
- do target me in non-combat keymap -> self
- do taunt in virtual combat key map -> all

the paladin virtual keymap

Code:

- dps rotation
  - do assist me in non-combat key map -> self
  - wow macro 'fight' in macros -> self
- taunt
  - no steps

the healer virtual keymap

Code:

- dps rotation
   - no steps
- taunt
  - wow macro 'heal' in 'macros' -> priest

in the macros

Code:

fight
/cast judgment
/party i am fighting %t

heal
/cast flash heal
/party i am healing %t

[MiRai]

There is an odd behavior when i 'dps rotation' combat key' the priest / healer character with no assigned steps will perform steps of another virtual keymap "do target me in non-combat keymap -> self".

The effect is that while dps characters are dpsing (and the foreground window is the dpser), all the other characters are assisting.

This becomes a complication if you want to have characters fight' and other characters 'heal' (pressing backspace and h) at times as the healer will at times heal themselves (rather than healing the hostile) as the to /assist {FTL} is pressed between /targetexact {FTL} the /cast flash heal is fired. Pretty easy to see in a larger group, some lag and serious button mashing.

In the pro config page ... http://isboxer.com/wiki/HOWTO:Configure ... like_a_pro ... and video the assist me is done in the 'combat hot keys', this behavior is the same if its there or in the actual virtual private hot key. i would expect it to be the same in the combat hot keys as that has yet to be 'virtualized' to the specific character/slot. i am additionally restricted it in this example to "-> paladin"

I am sure that somehow the assist me is jumping of out 'scope', i just dont see how to address this easily as the virtualization should have scoped it.

The reason for this is that while you're calling your assist in your Paladin Key Map, the assist Mapped Key in Non-Combat is assigned to the entire Character Set and is being sent to All w/o Current. In order to accomplish what you want, I'd probably recommend adjusting the Target of the assist Mapped Key to be something like a DPS-specific ATG which doesn't contain your Priest. Doing that would then mean you'd need to maintain multiple assist Mapped Keys for both in and out of combat.

I'd also suggest not setting your macros to use keys that you'd like to type with in game, because once you disable Key Maps both H and Backspace are going to be attempting to fire off the macro they're assigned to while you type with them.

[hpavc]

The reason for this is that while you're calling your assist in your Paladin Key Map, the assist Mapped Key in Non-Combat is assigned to the entire Character Set and is being sent to All w/o Current. In order to accomplish what you want, I'd probably recommend adjusting the Target of the assist Mapped Key to be something like a DPS-specific ATG which doesn't contain your Priest. Doing that would then mean you'd need to maintain multiple assist Mapped Keys for both in and out of combat

Gotcha, sure i can clone 'assist me' to 'dps assist me', change that to only work with dps atg ... then change the virtual keymap to use 'dps assist me'.

This will let me use the global 'a' for assist me (all) and non dps will maintain their targeting when dps are dpsing ... super.

Thank you!

I'd also suggest not setting your macros to use keys that you'd like to type with in game, because once you disable Key Maps both H and Backspace are going to be attempting to fire off the macro they're assigned to while you type with them.

I turn off keymaps / multiplexing when i want to chat or type a key, minus the vulcan neck pinch keystokes.

This was an example config, I wanted to have something as easy as possible to look at.

[MiRai]

I turn off keymaps / multiplexing when i want to chat or type a key, minus the vulcan neck pinch keystokes.

This was an example config, I wanted to have something as easy as possible to look at.

I figured it might be, but I always try to point out anything that might cause issues.

Glad it's all sorted out now.

[hpavc]

Glad it's all sorted out now.

I thought I had it sorted out, but it was an illusion. My guess is t hat the FTL key modifiers are getting lost (my best guess). The "do target me in non-combat keymap" in the combat keymap or in the virtual class keymap or in the named macro (as simply adding /targetexact {FTL}) all seem to heal the target (or self if target is harmful). Quick Setup 41's 'targetexact FTL' still has all the "Allow modfiers and can use modifiers" and the macro views in preview fine.

Since I just pve I switched Quick Setup 41's 'targetexact FTL' to ...

Code:

!rem /targetexact {FTL}
/targetexact {SLOT1}

... so i can move on with the rest of the pro config (my /played in isboxer toolkit a bit much this weekend) and it works. No target flicker back and forth for the healer during combat so its right, just loosing the FTL modifiers somewhere it seems.

I should likely make a cheesy macro that i can toss into this for debugging

Code:

/cast [nomodifier] spell0
/cast [modifier:i] spell1
/cast [modifier:j] spell2
/cast [modifier:k] spell3

Likely need to get another pastebin made.

[bob]

if you are using the /TargetExact {FTL} as a Named WOW action, and you want it to target a specific character, then you need to select which modifiers will select that character in the Named WOW action in the "Add optional modifiers". You can check the modifiers by viewing the Slot properties in the character set.

You could tick the "+ Slot ID" checkbox, but depending on your config tree it may result in the recipient of the action just selecting themselves. This requires a bit of careful tracking through the chain to see what is happening.