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[Potetsalat]

As the topic says, when I'm doing designations, my left mouse button will move the yellow X. But unlike the right-click button, it will also set the designation order. So basically I can only designate squares. Not a major problem, but stil frustrating.

The problem came when I installed DF on my new computer, with windows 8 (Not sure if that matters, but I know already windows 8 comes with fun). I'm also using a mod called Genesis reborn, but I played with this mod before without this problem.

Thanks for any help.

[JTTCOTE1]

YOU CAN DESIGNATE NON-RECTANGLES?!?!?!??!?!

You have just saved me literal lifetimes.

Not sure what you mean. When I tried this, left-clicking designated the tile clicked to be dug but did not move the X, whether I'd started the rectangle or not. Right-clicking moved the x but did not finish the designation. Don't understand what your complaint is exactly...

[Garath]

yes, with the mouse you can set designations like digging, paint burrows and more. Most of the game is done with the keyboard though

[Potetsalat]

At the moment, I have to click twice to complete a designation. I hit "d" and left click a tile, it will move the yellow X, If I then move my mouse to a different tile, it will make a squared designation (just like the keyboard, it's basically a new "enter")

I want it to be normal, when you can hold your left mouse button down and drag it around, making a track of designations behind your mouse.

[Garath]

should be possible. There are some options hen setting designations too, check which keys do what I'd say, it might be obvious when you have the screen up

[Potetsalat]

I can't find any keybindings related to the mouse, only to the keyboard

[Garath]

ok, I was wrong, then again, I still have the 1 tile set-up with at least digging, though I do know there are different options when setting burrows with the mouse

In short; no clue

[Sutremaine]

Are you using DFHack with one of these in the plugins file? I'm not sure which one exactly modifies the mouse behaviour, because I installed them all as a bundle yesterday.

[Xinael]

It's falconne's "mouse plugin" that causes this behaviour.

[Potetsalat]

It's falconne's "mouse plugin" that causes this behaviour.

Yes, I deleted mousequery.plug from the Hack folder, now it's back to normal!

Thanks for all the answers

[slothen]

Probably because the game wasn't designed to be used with a mouse at all.  You hit enter once to start the designation, move the cursor, and hit enter again to designate the rectangle.

[Potetsalat]

Probably because the game wasn't designed to be used with a mouse at all.  You hit enter once to start the designation, move the cursor, and hit enter again to designate the rectangle.

You misunderstood the dilemma. I know how to play and move around in DF, but my mouse was not working normally, because I had a mouse addon installed, without knowing it.