Typing the "@" shuts quits the client

[Guest]

Hi there!

 

When i type the @ to chat in a channel the client shuts down. I have a german keyboard with @ on ALTGR+Q.

 

Is there a hotkey ALT+Q to quit the game? Is there a way to change the hotkeys in the client or participating in the chat using another key?

 

Thanks in advance,

 

tanky

[Flexo]

Ent knows the bug and prolly is fixing it atm :-)

[tanky]

No Chat for me atm? Thanks anyway! :?

[Sadez]

The client is set to exit with alt+x and ctrl+q, but whe you press altgr sdl reports that ctrl and alt have been pressed...

if you can compile the client remove this:

|| (event->key.keysym.sym == SDLK_q && ctrl_on) 

from events.c line 101

[Grum]

Why not change it to

|| (event->key.keysym.sym == SDLK_q && ctrl_on && !alt_on)

in cvs so that it's fixed once and for all?

[Sadez]

As I have said in my previous message, when you press altgr sdl says that both crtl and alt are pressed so that code won't work.

[Grum]

??

 

That was the whole point. This way, the client won't quit when SDL reports both Ctrl and Alt, but only when just Ctrl is detected.

[Cicero]

Grum, does that work? If so, I'm adding it.

[Grum]

Sorry Cicero, couldn't tell since I can't reproduce the problem here. At least it doesn't hurt

[Mar(c)]

tip:

 

For as long as this isn't fix0red, copy '@' to your clipboard from any text editor or wherever, and paste (ctrl-v) it in EL every time you want to channel chat.

 

(I know, it's not a solution for the problem, but it's a workaround many Germans are using, I read somewhere...)

[Guest]

That code does not work, client keeps exiting with altgr+q

[Sadez]

Last post was mine, forgot to login.

[Grum]

Hmm, that's weird. Maybe SDL generates two events then, Alt-q and Ctrl-q ?

[Entropy]

Yes, we really need to fix this issue.

To respond to the original poster, there are two thing you can do until the next version (besids for compiling the client yuorself).

You can either change the keyboard settings to english, or copy the character @ in your clipboard, and paste it with ctrl+v

[Cicero]

Ok . . . could someone with a german keybord find something that works, please? :?

[Flexo]

can't you simply change @ to another symbol or change the exit thingy?

[Grum]

Okay, I tried changing my keyboard layout to German, and after spending half an hour trying to find the forward slash back again, I got the following values for mod_key_status

Left Alt, US: 0x1100, De: 0x1100

Right Alt, US: 0x1200, De: 0x5000

These values would explain why the fix doesn't work, but not why the problem occurs at all. Sadez (or someone else who experiences this problem and runs cvs), could you add a

printf ("%#xn", mod_key_status);

in events.c and see what you get?

[Sadez]

When I press altgr I get 0x240 which means: KMOD_LCTRL | KMOD_RALT

We could make the exit keys configurable in key.ini so the german guys can change it to something else.

[Grum]

If you get KMOD_RALT, I don't understand why the change I proposed earlier doesn't work.

 

<-- Dazed and confused

 

Perhaps your idea of making the exit keys configurable is the best.

[Sadez]

Sorry Grum that code does work, it seems I can't even copypaste

[Grum]

lol

 

okay, good to hear. hope this causes no more problems then...