0006559: Rapid ranged autofight causes movement towards monsters

(0020851)
minmay (reporter)
2013-01-22 00:52

Forgot to mention, it does not appear to make you attack monsters in melee with your ranged weapon.

(0024971)
minmay (reporter)
2014-01-11 05:28

Update: it *does* make you attempt to attack monsters in melee with your ranged weapon. Of course, it will normally be stopped by a prompt.

(0024979)
minmay (reporter)
2014-01-12 20:07

Just pressed tab and it made me read a scroll of teleportation that was on 'l'. This is getting rather annoying.

(0025431)
minmay (reporter)
2014-02-27 00:38

My hunch was wrong. The problem also occurs in local games. I think it may have to do with pressing tab during an animation (such as the animation that every use of a launcher creates...)

(0025432)
Sar (reporter)
2014-02-27 00:49

I had similar problem with online games and spell macros (like zaf). Character would take a step and then a macro making menu would open, instead of casting.

(0031363)
Rast (reporter)
2016-12-23 22:08

This happened to me yesterday.. my spriggan was tabbing away with his sling and then he decides to step towards the ogre instead. OHKO

http://crawl.akrasiac.org/rawdata/rast/morgue-rast-20161223-060907.txt [^]

(0031365)
Cheibrodos (reporter)
2016-12-27 00:56

I am getting a similar bug where tabbing rapidly with a polearm against an enemy two spaces away resulted in opening a drop item menu.

(0031366)
PleasingFungus (administrator)
2016-12-27 01:03

It sounds, horrifyingly enough, as if lua calls to the autofight function may be executing while earlier calls are still running. Inserting sleep() calls into autofight would be a reasonable way to try to confirm that hypothesis.

Issue History
Date Modified	Username	Field	Change
2013-01-22 00:49	minmay	New Issue
2013-01-22 00:52	minmay	Note Added: 0020851
2014-01-11 05:28	minmay	Note Added: 0024971
2014-01-12 20:07	minmay	Note Added: 0024979
2014-02-10 15:16	chris	Issue Monitored: chris
2014-02-27 00:38	minmay	Note Added: 0025431
2014-02-27 00:49	Sar	Note Added: 0025432
2016-12-23 22:08	Rast	Note Added: 0031363
2016-12-27 00:56	Cheibrodos	Note Added: 0031365
2016-12-27 01:03	PleasingFungus	Note Added: 0031366

Notes
(0020851) minmay (reporter) 2013-01-22 00:52	Forgot to mention, it does not appear to make you attack monsters in melee with your ranged weapon.

(0024971) minmay (reporter) 2014-01-11 05:28	Update: it does make you attempt to attack monsters in melee with your ranged weapon. Of course, it will normally be stopped by a prompt.

(0024979) minmay (reporter) 2014-01-12 20:07	Just pressed tab and it made me read a scroll of teleportation that was on 'l'. This is getting rather annoying.

(0025431) minmay (reporter) 2014-02-27 00:38	My hunch was wrong. The problem also occurs in local games. I think it may have to do with pressing tab during an animation (such as the animation that every use of a launcher creates...)

(0025432) Sar (reporter) 2014-02-27 00:49	I had similar problem with online games and spell macros (like zaf). Character would take a step and then a macro making menu would open, instead of casting.

(0031363) Rast (reporter) 2016-12-23 22:08	This happened to me yesterday.. my spriggan was tabbing away with his sling and then he decides to step towards the ogre instead. OHKO http://crawl.akrasiac.org/rawdata/rast/morgue-rast-20161223-060907.txt [^]

(0031365) Cheibrodos (reporter) 2016-12-27 00:56	I am getting a similar bug where tabbing rapidly with a polearm against an enemy two spaces away resulted in opening a drop item menu.

(0031366) PleasingFungus (administrator) 2016-12-27 01:03	It sounds, horrifyingly enough, as if lua calls to the autofight function may be executing while earlier calls are still running. Inserting sleep() calls into autofight would be a reasonable way to try to confirm that hypothesis.

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