The game would interact with it as follows ( assuming )
I remap my alt-tab to lets say R
When I use a keystroke R, wow application 1, reads R and then proceeds to cast that spell, my operating system at the same time swaps the application to wow application 2. No input into application 2 only swapped via the same functionality as alt-tab.
Ah good, that’s the way I’m interpreting that too. So if they wanted to rebind it to alt-F6 that should be ok, but binding it JUST to F6 is not.
It has to be 2 buttons you re map it to
Shift + R: fine
R by itself: no.
Nope, that’s considered automation. Not allowed. The rules are very strict. It doesn’t matter if you’re “duplicating the functionality of alt-tab”. That’s streamlining.
Why would it have to be two bindings ?
I can change my alt-f4 function to just delete if I wanted ? Why would that matter sorry ?
Because that’s the rule as it is currently written.
Reducing alt tab to 1 button is software streamlining, which is banned.
link to that written rule ?
BUT!
Features within Windows CAN be used to streamline.
Because alt + tab = 2 keys. Not one.
Windows is software. It benefits someone - you. You can’t do anything at all to streamline or assist you in multiboxing.
That is the definition of automating the play for app 2. You need to manually switch focus and hit the key to use your skill in app 2.
No you can’t do what you want to do.
The one Mirasol linked you at least 3 times.
There has no automation at all ? Please read my computer logic:
my alt-tab has been remapped to R.
No automation, 2 keystrokes leading to 2 casts.
Sorry I’m failing to see the statement stating my alt-tab function must be a combination of two keys nor can be shared with my keybinds ? Nothing in those posts state anything about my local keybindings of my software having requirements of any kind.
Here’s the part that runs afoul of the rules. You have a single keybind set up to do something inside the game (ability) and outside the game (alt-tab) with one keystroke. That is not allowed. If you want to set your ability to R that’s fine. But you have to MANUALLY alt tab after that, not use Windows functionality to do it automatically.
Standard Windows interface:
Press R to cast a spell on WoW 1.
Press ALT-TAB to change focus to WoW 2.
Your proposal:
Press R to cast a spell on WoW 1 and change focus to WoW 2 with a single key press.
That sounds like it’s streamlining the process to me.
And honestly it sounds like you’re trying to fish for some comment from Blizzard telling you something is okay, so that if you do get banned for doing it you can try to point back to that comment saying it’s okay.
They aren’t going to tell you that’s allowed.
Are you certain this is the rule ?
If so can I make my alt tab like mousebutton 5 and just
again my example above
R mouse button 5 R to get my two applications to cast fireball one after the other ?
Except that is automation.
Fully manually would require 2 keys and 2 mouse clicks, or 6 keystrokes.
If anything at all switches that focus besides you doing it manually, you are breaking the rules put in place in 2021.
You can not have Windows automatically switch focus for you.
There is no exception for “local software”. ANY software really means any software. That includes your Operating system, mouse software, keyboard software, or anything else.
That’s exactly what I’m looking for, some guidelines to assure I don’t get banned again. As there seems to some vague rules and streamlining can be misunderstood easily as I currently am still failing to see how that above is streamlining.
How my operating system engages with my application is dependent on my OS entirely ( linux I believe uses ctrl shift > for swapping to next application )
With this logic if I binded any of my binds to Alt-tab in game would I be in breach of ToS ( a genuine question ) and if I have 2 applications running at the same time ?
Absolutely. I’ve seen people post on here after having gotten suspended for almost exactly that (they had the mouse wheel bound to alt tab).
Just because you don’t understand the streamlining rules, does not mean they don’t apply. The rules are vague for a reason, so that people can’t rules lawyer them.
You are not allowed to use ANY settings, even if they are just in your OS, to make the process “easier” in any way. Every window switch must be done 100% manually.
Incorrect, it would be 2 mouse clicks in windowed mode. This at least how it works on my PC and I used this regularly. Mouse over application = focus.
I think this is purely you rejecting something you don’t like.