Program to set hotkey to bring WoW Clients to front?

[scottig]

Lancer did you get it working?

[Freddie]

I just added Maximize to the program. It's in build 69 on the website now.

In case the website isn't available (my host company is horrible), you can download it here:

http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/hotkeynet/files/

[LancerX]

I don't mind helping like this. It's actually useful to me beause it gives me a chance to see which aspects of the program give people trouble. Big software companies have to pay specialists to observe paid users in test rooms to obtain that kind of info ... but here we are doing it for free.

The answer on maximize is, I don't think I implemented that but I'll add it now if you want it ... it has to get added eventually so now is a good time.

The answer on the renaming order is that normally HKN gives you three methods to control that, but only two work with WoW because of WoW's security features. (I could probably get around them but I don't want to do anything that could put users at risk.)

One way to handle it is to keep the hotkey we just defined. What it's doing is renaming the windows in Z-order from front to back. (The foreground window is in front). So what you have to do is arrange the windows from front to back before you hit the key.

The other way is to make five new hotkeys, one for each window. Click each window individually so it's in the foreground, then hit the appropriate hotkey.

Ok, so first off, thanks again for the help, its very much appreciated. This is what I did so far and it fixed me right up as far as the naming order

//Set hotkey to rename WOW windows with a delay
<hotkey Ctrl Shift Alt r>
<sendpc local>
<rename "World of Warcraft" Wow5>
<wait 500>
<rename "World of Warcraft" Wow4>
<wait 500>
<rename "World of Warcraft" Wow3>
<wait 500>
<rename "World of Warcraft" Wow2>
<wait 500>
<rename "World of Warcraft" Wow1>
<wait 500>


This allows me to keep it striaght on my screen and in my head .

I tried playing around with Setwinsize like this
<hotkey Ctrl Shift Alt m>
<SendPC local>
<setwinsize Wow1 1680 1050

But that did not work. Would kinda be nice to set up a macro to maximize say, 5 clients with some delays in place similar to that of the renaming process. Again thanks a ton , this is so helpfull to me and so much faster then what I was doing. I was just clicking on t a window then hitting a hotkey to change leader and set focus to my new leader. This way which is so awesome, I can have say F1 set to change all my guys focus to a new leader, and setforeground to my new leaders screen. Thanks again for the help.

[Freddie]

Welcome.

Why did you need wait's in the rename command? I wouldn't think they are necessary.

> I tried playing around with Setwinsize like this ... but that did not work.

Yeah, you needed Maximize. It's in the new build that you can download now.

Don't forget you can send WoW commands to the background windows without bringing them to the foreground. People tell me SendWinM works okay for that with WoW. If not, SendWinMF works, although you may have to adjust the Background Focus Delays.

[LancerX]

Welcome.

Why did you need wait's in the rename command? I wouldn't think they are necessary.

> I tried playing around with Setwinsize like this ... but that did not work.

Yeah, you needed Maximize. It's in the new build that you can download now.

Don't forget you can send WoW commands to the background windows without bringing them to the foreground. People tell me SendWinM works okay for that with WoW. If not, SendWinMF works, although you may have to adjust the Background Focus Delays.

Ok cool. I used the wait command because if you dont wait it was mixing up the renaming, ie. not renaming the windows in the correct order like 4,3,5,1,2 or something wierd like that, it was not consistent but after I put in the wait it was perfect 1,2,3,4,5. That make sense? Thanks for help

[Freddie]

Yeah makes sense, I just didn't expect Windows to behave that way with renaming. Live and learn.

You have great instincts, trying the wait's to see if they would help. I'm constantly writing to people who have problems, "Try putting in a few waits ..." Waits are to HKN problems as chicken soup is to sore throats. Something like that.