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Author Topic: Designate digging with the mouse  (Read 1157 times)

Aspgren

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Designate digging with the mouse
« on: February 17, 2012, 08:08:50 am »

Hey what's up.

Just thought I'd drop a little note here. I prefer to use the mouse to designate digging as opposed to raping the enter button and arrow keys. Now sometimes the mouse cramps up. As in it picks a certain area where it doesn't recognise my clicking.

 I found out today that this clears up if I just move the dwarf window around a bit. resize it and stuff. Hope someone finds this info useful.
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Montague

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Re: Designate digging with the mouse
« Reply #1 on: February 17, 2012, 08:20:48 am »

Holding down the mouse button works for keeping it from skipping tiles.

I really only use it for designating mineral veins, or tiny or odd-shaped rooms, since everything else in the fort is square.

Also, I didn't know the mouse worked for a long time and I just got good at key board designating everything.
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Lord Snow

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Re: Designate digging with the mouse
« Reply #2 on: February 17, 2012, 08:28:34 am »

Hey what's up.

Just thought I'd drop a little note here. I prefer to use the mouse to designate digging as opposed to raping the enter button and arrow keys. Now sometimes the mouse cramps up. As in it picks a certain area where it doesn't recognise my clicking.

 I found out today that this clears up if I just move the dwarf window around a bit. resize it and stuff. Hope someone finds this info useful.
Your mouse will typically be restricted to the 80x25 (?) default tile area before doing this. Playing at that setting you will never have this problem, but the fix is just too simple :)
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Re: Designate digging with the mouse
« Reply #3 on: February 17, 2012, 08:31:14 am »

I found it didn't work in this version, but maybe it was just a bugged save or something.
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