Please make chat window focus persistent!

[gott_ist_tot]

So I'm typing a messagein the chat window. The next moment someone decides to share a quest with me and hell breaks loose.

Slowly, a music starts playing and the quest log opens. Adventure compendium opens. Swiftly followed by a staccato of character inventory and character stats window, reaching monumental crescendo when I concurrently cast heal on myself, mass cure serious on everyone around and the music dies slowly in sad finale of pressing the key linked to 'leap of faith' as I plunge myself into a pit of lava or whatever danger is ATM in front of me.

Please. Make it stop. Introduce this one small change into your focus traversal policy and I shall be eternally grateful. You probably can't do the same for DDO store search textbox which annoys the }#%% of me, but for chat window, I'm sure you can.

[Consumer]

Its worse when you hit t, turn on mouselook and then hit r for autorun.

/signed

[Rubiconn]

Um yeah,

Hello hellish lava pits in madstone, done it twice, no because someone decided to share the quest because someone tried to trade with me one time and the other was a windows error.

Funny now but not so funny in the middle of a quest.

[Llewndyn]

especially awesome when you summon a hireling and run right into an electric trap (delera's 4)... it definitely sucks and seems like something that should go in th UI panel... theres all kinds of options for stuff no one in their right mind would want to mess with but stuff like that....nada.

[systemstate]

/not signed

Sorry- I totally get what you're saying, and understand your plight. I personally like the way the chat window works though. I just got used to hitting the enter key before I start typing. It's reflexive now.

If I had to start hitting a key to escape out of the chat window after a conversation during a quest, I'd go crazy.

[jwdaniels]

Sorry- I totally get what you're saying, and understand your plight. I personally like the way the chat window works though. I just got used to hitting the enter key before I start typing. It's reflexive now.

I don't think you do get it - he's saying when you're already typing in a chat window and another window pops up he doesn't want to be kicked out of the chat window.

[Sirea]

especially awesome when you summon a hireling and run right into an electric trap (delera's 4)... it definitely sucks and seems like something that should go in th UI panel... theres all kinds of options for stuff no one in their right mind would want to mess with but stuff like that....nada.

I would totally /sign a UI option to turn off incoming quest sharing.

[muffinlad]

I don't think you do get it - he's saying when you're already typing in a chat window and another window pops up he doesn't want to be kicked out of the chat window.

/agree. It is very annoying when this happens.

muffintalker

[TekkenDevil]

/signed x10


I'm busy typing, then DING, party invite, and I equip 50 secondary equipments I had my keys shortcutted to, waste a potion and a scroll, then start walking down a chasm.

[Asketes]

I'm a long time user of auto-run. Use it in Coal chamber (yes while jumping), von 6, everywhere.


hehe every now and again, something like that happens and ... I'll fall down von6 (of course wearing my bloodstone instead of fearthfall to reach the portal)

haha sucks for me to be stewpeed


I would love for this, and the *announcement window* change. When we complete a quest or whatever, I can no longer click things (ie chest loot) through that window. It's been like that for some time now. Used to not act like that.

[systemstate]

I don't think you do get it - he's saying when you're already typing in a chat window and another window pops up he doesn't want to be kicked out of the chat window.

Ah, I see. I don't think this particular scenario has ever happened to me. Granted, I've only been playing since last September, but zero occurrences in eleven months...

This really happens that frequently for you?

Now, forgetting to hit "enter" before typing and then managing enable auto target, auto run, and open every window known to DDO- Yes. I've done that a few times. But it's rare as well.

However, anything that takes focus away from whatever you're trying to do is what I would call a bug. So, in that case I agree with you. Add it to the bug list and hopefully they'll fix it "soon™".

[gott_ist_tot]

I'm a long time user of auto-run. Use it in Coal chamber (yes while jumping), von 6, everywhere.


hehe every now and again, something like that happens and ... I'll fall down von6 (of course wearing my bloodstone instead of fearthfall to reach the portal)

haha sucks for me to be stewpeed


I would love for this, and the *announcement window* change. When we complete a quest or whatever, I can no longer click things (ie chest loot) through that window. It's been like that for some time now. Used to not act like that.

That's why I've used key binding option to swap autorun from R to ctrl+enter. But lots of other stuff is hound to plain letter keys (like the leap o'faith I'm using almost every cooldown).

And don't even get me started on windows and loot. Great. You can either loot the stuff or greater teleport out of quest. Thank you Turbine on teching me the inner workings of logical XOR operation how cool is that!