First Time - Key maps not working

I have tried for several attempts and days to get the isboxer software working. I am on a G105 keyboard, windows 7 with aero enabled.

I load the game via right clicking on the Lavish and launching.

Now, the normal 1 - 0 keys work and send to both clients. The F keys do not target at all on the other clients. The Follow and Assist do not work either.

I have tried deleting the character set many times and no luck. I have installed and reinstalled.

Here is my profile: http://www.privatepaste.com/17d7cf9d42

Just looking for what I am either missing, or if the software is configured right and I have something else wrong.

Things I notice: The keys that are set in Isboxer, do not appear to function for the active window either...

Thank you for any help,

[MiRai]

Now, the normal 1 - 0 keys work and send to both clients. The F keys do not target at all on the other clients.

By default, and what's currently configured in your profile, the F-keys are not set up to broadcast to all of your clients. If you want to set up more keys beside the number row (1 through =), then you can use the Mapped Key Wizard to do so.

The Follow and Assist do not work either.

According to your profile, you will press Up for Follow and ISBoxer will send Alt+F to the game client.

First, is anything bound to Alt+F in the game client? If not, you will need to create a /follow macro (social?), drag it to your hot bar, and assign it to Alt+F.

Second, I'd recommend against using follow and assist key bindings in game which have modifiers in them since they can cause issues in certain games.

The same above applies for assist, except you're pressing Down and ISBoxer is sending Alt+1, as configured.

I have tried deleting the character set many times and no luck. I have installed and reinstalled.

Reinstalling does not affect which keys are going to be broadcast.

Things I notice: The keys that are set in Isboxer, do not appear to function for the active window either...

Can you be more specific as to what isn't working? Your profile is practically bare bones default.

[bob]

There are several issues.

1. Your character set only has one character in it, and it has an empty slot. Maybe this is the result of some editing after the profile was generated. If not, then you need your character set to have all slots filled. As supplied in the paste, you can't even export the character set.
2. If F1 and F2 cannot be used in game to target the other character (F2 will be the one as F1 is usually Target Self), then this is a game key binding issue, and not ISBoxer. Or your characters are not in a group.
3. You have defined, at the character set level variable keystrokes (and the Variable Keystrokes too), that "Follow is now ALT+F" and "Assist is now ALT+1" These are to match the in game keybind values. The problem here is that ALT+[any key] wont work (well it might, but you may get undesirable results). Taken from this forum post,
   

   BUGGED, INVALID, OR OTHERWISE UNAVAILABLE KEYBINDS FOR EQ: Please post if you find others.
   ALT- Any Key / CTRL-ALT Any Key: Will send the keystroke; however it also opens the Item Preview Window if used on a Hotbutton made directly from an item.
   CTRL-N: Bugged or Hardcoded in the EQ client to open the Mail Window even if the Keybind is unmapped from Options -> Keys -> UI -> Mail Window Toggle
   Enter: Additional Info
   NumPad Enter: Additional Info

I am correct in assuming that after watching the MiRai video on follwo from any window...

If I press F1 on the active client... all characters should target the active character? This is the part not working.

Active Character... press f1...target himself.... but the not active character does not target anything.

I missed the don't know character name box when doing the export.. and want to remove them.. so I editted the paste to remove them and add in Character1Name

I understand about the ALT problem ... I wanted to keep it as basic as i could matching the quick setup video...


I do Have Alt+F and Alt+1 bound in game to hotbar 10 slots 11 and 12 respectively. I have follow and assist macro's there.

I think the targetting issue is the first problem... assist and follow won't matter if I can't press F1 to target the active client.

Can you be more specific as to what isn't working? Your profile is practically bare bones default.

That is my problems... Bare bone default... pressing F1 should target slot one on all characters... It does not.

[bob]

ISboxer does not trap the F1 nor F2 keys because they are not set as Hotkeys (keys that ISboxer looks out for as triggers). This doesn't mean it might not use them as keystrokes, just that is does not use them as Hotkeys.

So if you press F1 or F2, it only goes to the current active game, not all. If you are pressing F1 and then F2 and it does not Target Self and then Target the other character, then it is either an in game keybind issue or your characters are not in a group/party. You should test this on each character to see what each character does.

You are correct that if the targeting doesn't work, then Follow/Assist wont work either.

ISboxer does not trap the F1 nor F2 keys because they are not set as Hotkeys (keys that ISboxer looks out for as triggers).

So if you press F1 or F2, it only goes to the current active game, not all. If you are pressing F1 and then F2 and it does not Target Self or Target the other character, then it is either an in game keybind issue or your characters are not in a group/party. You should test this on each character to see what each character does.

You are correct that if the targeting doesn't work, then Follow/Assist wont work either.

Okay then F1 and F2 are fuctioning correctly in game on the active client. Active client... I press F1 it target myself, and F2 targets slot 2. So how does setting up the slot variable keystrokes in MiRai's video supposed to work. By the video, if I press F1 - slot 2 should target slot 1. That is not working.

Yes, I am in a group when attempting this.

[bob]

Okay then F1 and F2 are fuctioning correctly in game on the active client. Active client... I press F1 it target myself, and F2 targets slot 2. So how does setting up the slot variable keystrokes in MiRai's video supposed to work. By the video, if I press F1 - slot 2 should target slot 1. That is not working.

No. You've just said it, when you press F1, the active slot will target themselves, F2 targets the other character. ISBoxer is not trapping F1/F2 and doing any fancy stuff with it because it is NOT a hotkey; it just falls through to the active game. This doesn't mean that it can't send in in response to a different hotkey though.

When you press the UP arrow (the hotkey on the Follow Me mapped key) according to your supplied config two things happen
1. ISBoxer tells the non activate characters to Target the active slot, so if you are currently on Slot 1, this means that Slot 2 will be told to press F2
2. ISboxer sends your Follow keystroke, which is currently set to ALT+F


The Variable Keystrokes setup is to tell ISboxer that a "named keystroke" (or Variable Keystroke in ISBoxer terms), in the case of Slot 1 "Target Slot 1" should use F1 and "Target Slot 2" should use F2 has a value, that is potentially different or overridden from a fixed value. Note: this is not going to be the same for each character, for Slot 2, "Target Slot 1" should use F2 and "Target Slot 2" should use F1 (read it out load, it should make sense as to why).

When you create mapped keys you can set to call the Variable Keystroke, and they will use the per slot values as the keystroke.
In the Follow Me mapped key, it says:
Variable Keystroke -> Target Slot {SLOT} -> other follower.
This means it is calling a variable keystroke, it will replace the {SLOT} with the active slot number, so if you are on Slot 1, then it will call Target Slot 1, and send this to the other characters in the follower Action Target Group. In a two man team, this is the non active character, so Slot 2 (if slot 1 is active). The non active character (slot 2) will lookup the Variable Keystroke table for their slot, and see that "Target Slot 1" is now F2 (i.e. for the Slot 2 character, in order to Target the character in Slot 1, they need to press F2).

Why all this convoluted stuff?
Because each team/character configuration can be different (depending on the game), so for one team/slot pressing F2 might target slot 1, but for another team/slot pressing F2 might target slot 4. For some games the default mapping works well, for others, it requires a bit of jiggling. For a 2 man team, it is hard to get wrong.

Okay, thank you all for the help.

Going in I thought setting up the variable keys was setting up F1 and F2 to targeting other characters like mention in the previous posts. Once bob explained it, I got it.

THe other issue i had with my setup.. was I put my follow/assist on bar one page ten.. instead of hotbar 10.

Thanks all for the help it is working now, and i have a much better understanding.