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Neskiairti

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[40d11] alt tabbing and harvesting
« on: April 01, 2009, 03:29:04 pm »

so i pulled it out and gave it a try..
only things I'm noticing are problems with alt tabbing and harvesting.

Some times when i alt tab to something, and tab back, it no longer takes any input from my keyboard.. I have to tab to something under it, than back up before it will take input again.

also, cant turn the harvesting job off. I'm tired of my miners stopping to harvest plump helmets every 2 digs :P seriously, this is why i have a farmer.... who is idling.
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Re: [40d11] alt tabbing and harvesting
« Reply #1 on: April 01, 2009, 04:14:27 pm »

For the farmers, check the 'o'ptions.

For alt tabbing, that's a bug in recent mods to the graphics engine.  It's a RELIABLE bug, and I think it happens when you alt-tab to get back in...but not when you CLICK the DF window to get back in.  Or maybe it was the other way around?  In any case, try using either method, and one will work fine (and will even fix it if it got hosed up).
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Re: [40d11] alt tabbing and harvesting
« Reply #2 on: April 01, 2009, 05:45:54 pm »

For the alt tab issue.

Press alt once.

If you are ever in game and it is running fine, but no commands are being accept from the keyboard. Just tap alt once. That fixes it.

Apparantly alt toggles between the keyboard and mouse or some such. I figured this out when it was doing the same thing for me, only I had alt tabbed from a mining designation menu, when I alt tabbed back in, the keyboard wouldn't work, I accidently clicked with the mouse, which worked, which led to me figuring out how to fix this.
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