enter,type,enter,av moves grrrrr

Can this bug be fixed PLZ!

I get this all to often. and get sick of saying sorry for a bug in the game when I run over who I am talking to. Especially if I am in an arguement and I run into my adversary...could turn messy over a stupid bug...

It goes like this:

About everyother time I say a line and sometimes everytime, I do the usual hit enter to type. Then I type my message.
I hit enter. Message shows up, and my av flys or runs all over the place. usually in the direction it is pointing at a fast rate of speed.

Interesting, i've never had that particular one happen.

However, I have hit enter and started typing the message before it "picked up" on it, and then the exact mayhem (and sometimes worse) you're describing ensues, due to my hitting keys which perform other functions...

yea that happens to me to, but hehe the other is more annoying lol. And I have pain close attn at time to make sure im not just hitting keys with no text box open. I have hears that some people experience this yet others do not, nay ideas as to why this is?

i was able to reproduce what you're talking about by chatting W and quickly hitting enter. it made me step forward.

I've walked off ledges from this before. Sometimes I go backwards, sometimes forwards. I tend to stand a good distance from anyone I am talking to now. And from ledges.

I think it may be an issue with the letter "w". Ive been having serious annoyances closing windows with Ctrl + W in edit mode (you move and you need to reselect prim :-/ ) Ctrl + w on most windows makes my avitar lurch forward, often hitting someone or running off a platform, or exiting out of edit mode hehe. Please fix this!

-Chris

I get this ALL the time. Happens to me if the last letter of my chat is w, a, s, or d. Typing "I like the smell of skunks" will send you back a step. Typing "Wow" will send you foward. Typing "Hello Amanda" will send you to your left. Typing "Hello Donald" will send you to your right.

PLEASE FIX THIS!

Cool post james, I didnt have enough patience to figure out which letters did it, so from now on ill end every chat line with z lol if I remember to do so lol z

You could just end each post with a period (.)

I run into this (pun intended) a lot too. I have a theory about what's going on, I don't know what the fix would involve though.

If you open up a DOS box, and type a long-running command (or in Linux a shell window) we are used to the fact that we can go ahead and type another command before the first one is finished. In fact, depending on the system, you might be able to type dozens of commands and all those keystrokes get stacked up somewhere and used when the system is next able to accept them. I think SL works that way too, except there are certain actions which cause that stack to get cleared, or ignored. You can also duplicate this behavior with two DOS boxes. If you type a few commands that bog down your first DOS box, and then enter the key sequence that would normally jump control to a second DOS box.... what piece of code handles those key sequences? In some cases the operating system does the appropriate context switch right away, but in other cases the DOS box is allowed to examine those key sequences first, which means you type a command intended for the second DOS box, which may or may not still exist by the time they are analyzed.

Anyway, I think something like this is going on in SL, which is why it seems to be a lot worse when the sims (or my local PC) are slow than when things are zipping along.

One of my requests has been to make the chat, IM, and some of the menu windows external to the world view, and using ordinary text mode (local font selection etc) rather than part of the graphics image. I have a feeling this would help, but maybe not.

But that would just make me do everything twice!

(First one to tell me what editor I use wins an imaginary cookie.)

The other part of the reason this happens is that WASD is tied to movement; it's the semi-standard control setup for first-person shooters, so you can move and strafe with one hand and control the mouse with the other. I use this setup, because it's more comfortable to have my hands spaced farther apart.

Also: If you end your post with an E, you'll jump or rise; if you end your post with a C, you'll crouch or lower; if you end your post with an F, you'll start or stop flying.

I still want this to be fixed, WASD shouldnt apply to chat messages.

I just fixed this. The problem was when you hit a movement key (ASWD, E, etc.) during the same graphics frame that keyboard focus switched out of the chat line. Thus it would happen more often if you were a fast typist, or if you had a low frame rate.

You'd think the fix was simple, but it actually wasn't because you still need to preserve stuff like keys that go down this frame and up the next, keys held down that auto-repeat, etc.

James

Hmm I still do it . The "S" key is the worst.

Just fixed == fixed 5 minutes ago, so being released in 0.9.1 tomorrow. Not fixed in 0.9.0.

James

Thank you, James!

Ty so much James L!

ohhhh cool thank you thank you thank you.....

With how laggy I am on a stupid G2mx its a pain to try to navigate back to the conversation range

Oh and did I say thank you yet

I happen to be a very fast typist, and, considering that I play on a GF 2 MX sometimes, I get this bug quite a lot...cant wait for 0.9.1!