New Feature

[Furious]

I know whisper forwarding isn't new, but what channel text forwarding. Say I had a bot, named "123", and my account was "456". If 456 joined a game, 123 could relay all channel messages to 456.  Anybody see any use to this, or is it useless?

[Hdx]

its useless.
If you were in any type of active channel your bot would flood out after the 5/6th message :/
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[Newby]

Raibot had this feature. :|

[Furious]

its useless.
If you were in any type of active channel your bot would flood out after the 5/6th message :/
~-~(HDX)~-~

Because we can't delay the sending of messages...

[Joe]

If you queue it up, you won't flood off, but in an active channel you'll be so far back its not even funny.

[Ryan Marcus]

Hmmm.. Intersting idea.

Same could apply if you wanted to be in multiple channels at once... A channel per bot.

It might be more practicle to set a hotkey to tell a third party program to show a popup above the game / other channel with an entry spot...

Added to my todo list for my bot.

[Blaze]

If you had two bots, that got every other message, it might work.  Impracticle though.

[Ergot]

However, if you needed a mass whisperer, I'm pretty sure you can send more on a bot that is in a game than from within a channel.

[Furious]

Hrm, Ryan mind sharing some ss's or telling us about?

[Armin]

Assuming the bot is on the same computer as the client, why not just make the bot mimic the packets so the client just thinks that it's getting the messages through battle.net?

EDIT: Oh yeah, of course make a feature that F8 or something enables and disables it.

[Newby]

Do you mean injecting the bot's packet buffer into the client's packet buffer?

I think if the client recieved chat messages for a chat channel whilst in game, it would freak out and shit bricks.

[Armin]

Do you mean injecting the bot's packet buffer into the client's packet buffer?

Basically... (Not really sure exactly what that means, never got into it because I think programming is a waste of time.)

I think if the client recieved chat messages for a chat channel whilst in game, it would freak out and shit bricks.

Of course you're going to send the packets in a way that the client can understand it...

[Newby]

What happens if you inject a packet right in the middle of a packet relating to game play?

So instead of something like: datadatadatadatadatadatadata

You get: datadatadatadainserteddatatranslatedtopacketformattheclientcanreadtadatadata.

Often, the packets come fragmented, so you'd have to be able to repair any broken packets that you break inserting it. :P

[Armin]

Oh, I see what you're getting at. Excuse me for my non-technical termology: If you say the messages are comming from Battle.net as whispers, it won't interfere. The question is, what if you get disconnected from Battle.net? Then it won't work when you're disconnected, that simple.

[Blaze]

How about the bot just print the messages on screen using starcrafts own print function?