A simple utility to launch multiple World of Warcraft instances and position them on your desktop in different layouts, including the ability to set the windows to borderless and alwaysOnTop, and a hotkey to switch which window is being shown as the big "maximized" main window.
This software does NOT send or allow to send any input to World of Warcraft! It should be fully compliant with the new rules for multiboxing in WoW.
The software is supplied "as is" under MIT license, no liability, see license file for details.
You can download it from the releases here.
- Number of boxes: allows you to set up many wow windows can be started. Currently restricted to 10
- Select Layout: Best to try them out. The screen is subdivided into 3x3 or 4x4 grid and the main window is being put in the top left portion of the grid while the smaller windows are arranged either on the bottom (BottomRow) or at the bottom then going up (BottomRowAndRight).
- Install path: Set the install path to your "_retail_" directory containing the wow.exe first. I haven't tested if it works for classic, let me know.
- Launch WoW / Apply Changes: This launches the wow instances or updates their window position if you changed the layout or pip position or borderless / always on top state. So you can press this button repeatedly, it will launch / update previously launched wow windows as needed
- Borderless WoW: Removes the caption and border from the wow window for less clutter.
- AlwaysOnTop clients: Makes only the smaller windows or PIP windows always on top.
- Enable focus tracking: This enables the windows build in x-mouse focus tracking. Other utilities can do this too. Sets mouse focus tracking with no delay and no raising of windows. Applied immediately.
- Enable hide taskbar: This sets the windows taskbar to autohide. This is useful if you don't want the taskbar to be above your smaller wow windows. Applied immediately (but not on start)
- Ctrl+Tab hotkey: This enables a hotkey that will allow you to click on one of the smaller wow windows and switch it to the bigger window. Useful for configuring alts. Together with mouse over focus tracking you can hover over a small pip and press Ctrl+Tab to maximize, and press it again to switch back. If you press it when the maximized window is in focus then it will cycle through all wow windows
- The utility saves a config file called WoWStarter.json next to the exe, so make sure to have write permission
- Optionally you can have multiple "config.wtf" file named config1.wtf and config2.wtf etc. Simply copy and rename them in your WTF folder. If those files exist the launcher will use that file by passing it as a command line ("wow.exe -config config1.wtf"). This is useful to have the correct account preselected for each box (e.g. wow1) or have different graphics and sound settings on each box.
- Optionally you can have multiple "_retail_" folders set in installPaths in the WoWStarter.json config file. This was requested to have different addons configurations in separate paths. If more boxes are launched than install paths are defined then the last will be used. Folder select button will override multiple install paths set.
- Added button to select install path folder
- Now makes sure you have a valid install path set and reads initializes installPaths from the registry
- Now launches either "Wow.exe" or "WowClassic.exe" depending on which one is found
- You can now define multiple installPaths set "_retail_" folders in the WoWStarter.json file
- After running WoWStarter once there is now a valid customLayout defined you can tweak in the config file
- Added ability to configure the hotkey in the config file
- TODO: Hotkey to temporarily hide the alwaysOnTop PIPs (or maybe automatically when wow is not in foreground?)
- TODO: Hotkey to disable / enable X-Mouse functionality
- TODO: Configure which key to use for Ctrl+Tab
MIT License
Copyright (c) 2020 Dejay Rezme
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