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[Ibu Muffintakers]

There's wierdness with holding down movement keys and pressing shift.  I got it to happen by holding shift, then holding 4 at the same time, then releasing and pressing shift again.  When I released all the keys, my character kept moving in the same direction and wouldn't stop.  When I saved and restored he was still doing it.

[herrbdog]

This seems to be a semi-common bug. The key hooks are not releasing, apparently. I have solved this problem by clicking on my desktop, then switching back to DF. It is a Windows-application interfacing problem. Of course, if you run fullscreen, I *imagine* alt-tabbing out and back will also fix the problem.

[Toady One]

I'm not sure if this is the same as the other stuck key problem that I have no idea how to fix.  It's possible this one is easier, but I've had some trouble with stuck keys.  Handling input via windows messages or key state queries doesn't make a difference.

[herrbdog]

Toady, I think it is the same error. I have played around a bit trying to trigger it (harder than you'd think when you WANT the error to show, I hate debugging =p). It seems to be related to the application recieving too many key messages at once, and for whatever reason, one gets stuck and not released. Perhaps the WAPI cannot send all the messages, so it retains some, and keeps sending it repeatedly, not recognizing it was received. Once I switch out, the WAPI releases the key messages (or perhaps passes them to the now active application), and going back to DF, all seems fine.

But, meh, I make amateur programmers look like pros =p. Though I loves my C...

[Toady One]

In any case, I'm not sure if it's something I can fix.  The different input methods I've tried don't work, and I'm out of ideas.