Possible to send simultaneous keystrokes to ALL PC's?

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Possible to send simultaneous keystrokes to ALL PC's? On occasions I want to be able to press a key on the master machine and have that same key press occurr on all the machines.

Is this possible?

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Reply #1 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Not with MP.
I don't know of any other app either.
Reply #2 from Stardock Forums Top

I'd dearly love that feature too. It's the one thing I really miss, and adding it would be a huge bonus!

There's a thread here about AutoHotkey. I hear it's good, but a bit unreliable under some circumstances so I haven't touched it.

How about it, development-type-guys? Can we have this feature? Pretty please?


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Reply #3 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Could you give an example of when this would be useful?
Reply #4 from Stardock Forums Top
Sure Neil

Multiboxing in MMORPG : playing several accounts at the same time on multiple computers in massively multiplayer online game like World of Warcraft for example. (usually a lot of MMO gamers play 2 or 3 accounts at the same time on 2 or 3 computers).

Myself, i m looking for this features since 2 years now. I got Multiplicity and it s a great tool already for multibox in mmo games (DAOC, LOTR, WOW).
But what is missing is the possibility to send the same keystroke command on multiple computers in the same time, like a broadcast feature, and send the same mouse movement at the same time on several PC.

This features will interest primary MMO gamers like myself and a lot of others people . For example, WOW is played by 8 millions people!

Actually i found only 1 solution for this kind of thing, but it s an expensive hardware solution : http://vetra.com/844text.html And it works only for keyboard not for the mouse movement.

Also, a software solution seems possible, but i haven t tested myself, follow the link here : http://www.dual-boxing.com/forums2/viewtopic.php?t=35

For Belmal : i don t recommand you Autohotkey. Your account can get banned from game for using this third party programm.

Tyrex.
Reply #5 from Stardock Forums Top
Finally i tested the software made by the guy named Micah on dual-boxing

God, it works really fine. The applications seems stable too. You can choose to broadcast only keyboard, mouse or both. Very easy to install. Work only for XP actually.

Stardock could implement these features in a new Multiplicity version ?

take a look here :
freeware : http://ultrashare.net/hosting/fl/ffeff6c466/
tutorial : http://www.dual-boxing.com/forums2/viewtopic.php?t=35
The author of this great tool should be awarded.
Reply #6 from Stardock Forums Top
A reason I would like to send simultaneous keystrokes to ALL PC's is to put all of my monitors in standby mode. I have a keyboard shortcut on all of my machines that put my monitors in standby and I would love to be able to have them all switch to standby from one machine.
Reply #7 from Stardock Forums Top

So, 5 months on and no word on this being developed. That's pretty poor service. Even a "no" would be better than complete silence.

I'm using a combination of Multibox (www.dual-boxing.com) and Multiplicity at the moment, but I see that there's a mod to Synergy (http://synergy2.sourceforge.net/) that supports keyboard broadcasting and I intend to investigate that.

Before I do that, I thought I'd ask give the paid product one more chance to prove that there's any point whatsoever in continuing with it...

Is there any intention to support the simultaneous broadcasting of keys to multiple machines with Multiplicity?
Reply #8 from Stardock Forums Top
Belmal, i think Multibox is already THE Synergy mod.
No other software around at the moment. Multibox is good but not great and have some bugg, for example : when you use a Razer mouse at 1600 dpi+ on your main, the fact to run multibox and multiplicity in same time cause some speed mouse lost on slaves computers. On your main, you run your mouse at 1600+ dpi, and when you switch on slave, the mouse speed drop at 400 dpi. Whit this kind of bugg, you can loose in RvR match.

And i ask the same thing :
Is there any intention to support the simultaneous broadcasting of keys to multiple machines with Multiplicity?
Reply #9 from Stardock Forums Top
I currently own multiplicity running 5 computers with it and I whould really welcome the feature of broadcasting keystrokes to all machines.
Make the user toggle between single mode and broadcast mode with an assignable key.
As you might have guessed my main use for this whould be playing games but I can imagine there are other uses for this as well.
Are there any plans to add that feature or do I have to look elsewhere for a suitable program?
Any feedback is appreciated