Windower 4 - Discussion and Support

[Julian]

Figure I'll ask here:

I'm using binds to sent WinKey+Key sends that keypress to all of my accounts with send open, aka, WinF8 does F8 on all windows.

bind @F8 send @all "\/\/exec keyboard/F8.txt"

and keyboard/F8.txt:

setkey F8 down;
wait .2;
setkey F8 up;

I also have the same for arrow keys and enter. I'm running this on my main account + 3 extra characters. When I do this, and say, try to talk to a chocobo npc, I'll do WinF8, WinEnter, WinEnter, etc, but it looks like the command doesn't get sent to all 4 characters, because some of them will talk to the npc and some of them will end up not? Like, I'll hit WinF8, everyone targets NPC, I hit WinEnter, 2 or 3 of the characters will hit enter and start talking to the npc, and 1 or 2 do nothing.

Anyone got any idea why? This is really frustrating.

[chichicha]

Spellcast crashed
Timestamp doesn't load
after update.

And now unloaded all Plugins - avoiding crashed, since POL congestion.
Will do more report after traffic flow easier.

using Windower 3.3

[Raelia]

No problems with 3.4 besides Spellcast and chat->console being broken (I don't run BMN or Surgeon or any of that silly crap), so likely just a memory location borked?

[Ihm]

We've released a fix for Windower 4. If you use the Windower 4 Beta, just re-run the launcher and it will automatically update. If you haven't moved to v4 yet, we encourage you to do so here. We are working on backporting the fix to 3.4, and will be posting an update when a fix is available.

It's a hook update, so make sure you close the game before updating .

[Prothescar]

thanks much for your hard work!

[Raelia]

And there was much rejoicing.

[TacoTaru]

Does this mean Spellcast/Timestamp is working again on Windower4?

[Raelia]

Spellcast was working yes.

Aaaaand then it crashed when I used Haste Samba.

Might have been Guildwork plugin or something instead, disabled all but spellcasts, timer, distance, drawdistance, tparty... seems solid

[TacoTaru]

Spellcast was working yes.

Aaaaand then it crashed when I used Haste Samba.

Huzzah

[Fredjan]

Vanatunes's file seems to be corrupted, asking to re-download. Just a heads up. No other issues so far on my end that I can see.

[Julian]

Figure I'll ask here:

I'm using binds to sent WinKey+Key sends that keypress to all of my accounts with send open, aka, WinF8 does F8 on all windows.

bind @F8 send @all "\/\/exec keyboard/F8.txt"

and keyboard/F8.txt:

setkey F8 down;
wait .2;
setkey F8 up;

I also have the same for arrow keys and enter. I'm running this on my main account + 3 extra characters. When I do this, and say, try to talk to a chocobo npc, I'll do WinF8, WinEnter, WinEnter, etc, but it looks like the command doesn't get sent to all 4 characters, because some of them will talk to the npc and some of them will end up not? Like, I'll hit WinF8, everyone targets NPC, I hit WinEnter, 2 or 3 of the characters will hit enter and start talking to the npc, and 1 or 2 do nothing.

Anyone got any idea why? This is really frustrating.

Anything on this?

[Hirronimus]

Made the switch. Thank you guys ^^

[jdzw]

hello i made the switch but when i try to load spellcast it says corrupted and i just downloaded it again, used an old one and a different one. -please help

[Fwahm]

Edit: nevermind, figured it out.

[vagus]

Switched over. Thank you for your dedication. You make FFXI worth playing. ^.^b.

HOLY FUCK! I don't know what you did, but 4.0 make my FFXI look so much better on my shitty PC. Anyone know why this is the case? Change in resolution is my guess.

[Treize Kordero]

Switched over to Windower 4 and it's work nicely for me :D

[Aureus]

Anything on this?

Nothing really coming to mind, can you add some debugging outputs in your scripts so you can see if they're actually being run by all instances? There may be some issues with the IPC implementation with that many different characters. At the very least it could narrow it down to see if it's a problem with ipc or send, or with setkey

[Julian]

This used to happen in 3.4 as well with xiutil send. I have some ideas so I'll try a few things later this week once things cool down with the expansion. If it doesn't work, I'll try adding some debug text and go from there.

[Aureus]

This used to happen in 3.4 as well with xiutil send. I have some ideas so I'll try a few things later this week once things cool down with the expansion. If it doesn't work, I'll try adding some debug text and go from there.

3.4 had a limitation (MMF-related) that would cause external programs to not pick up commands entered in rapid succession. for example, //send mule1 exec a;send mule2 exec b would pretty much never work as intended. That should be fixed with the new IPC layer, but there's obviously still some issues to work out with it

[Buffy]

Swapped to Windower 4 today when friends told me that plugins were working on it that weren't working on 3.4.1.

Once I figured out how to set it up, pretty spiffy.

Nicely done.