Macros perhaps shouldn't always work
Posted: Monday, 6th June 2022, 23:47
I returned to playing recently after a break, mostly working (it happens) and binging a bit in Cataclysm (very fun) only to find myself confused for a time about setting skills. You see, my problem began with the horrible problem of wanting a good new OLED laptop with a numpad and a larger than average screen... for playing Crawl (lol). I finally settled on a laptop after much agonizing and trying my best to avoid Intel chips with Nvidia (for linux). Okay enough ado - the numpad and arrow keys still bother me, it's ridiculous. I've had to retrain my reflexes some for the newer inferior numpad. I wound up binding the enter key to "." for resting a turn and numpad "5" for rest to full and numpad "0" for autoexplore (not physically where I wanted it).
Enough entertainment already!
Anyways, what happened was I didn't realize I still had a key binding after I thought I cleared everything, and every time I'd go into the skill training window and set a target skill number, if I sent "3", it would turn to a red invalid "3." or if I set "3.0" it would just become "3.0." after I hit enter (mind you not on the numpad). I guess maybe I could try to have it differentiate the numpad enter key from the normal one, but the issue I'm trying to present is that perhaps the macros shouldn't kick in for every situation, like, entering values for skill training targets. I solved it finally by a renewed effort to make sure my set of macros were truly all deleted, but that now limits me from using one of the more usefully positioned keys on the numpad.
To be clear, I'm not upset with Crawl -- I blame the laptop creators and their stupid redesigns of keyboards that almost never make sense. How about them crappy half height up/down arrow keys? Before this devolves into a complete rage against the machine posting, I want to say perhaps Crawl could overcome this problem by not applying certain macro definitions in some situations like the one I described above. Aside from that input box for the skill training value, I don't think I had a problem with anything else using the (sad) almost as good key remappings.
In closing, I just want to say one more time -- you FOOLS who design most laptop keyboards. Oh yeah then there is the stupid centering of the touch pad regardless of if there is a numpad or not. I know there are some modular laptops that are a little better about letting you plug different modular components in, but seriously with all the options you can get in a laptop and then that get outdated, I wish there was a good OLED + keyboard lapdock that was bigger than tiny. Sorry!!! *end rant*
Enough entertainment already!
Anyways, what happened was I didn't realize I still had a key binding after I thought I cleared everything, and every time I'd go into the skill training window and set a target skill number, if I sent "3", it would turn to a red invalid "3." or if I set "3.0" it would just become "3.0." after I hit enter (mind you not on the numpad). I guess maybe I could try to have it differentiate the numpad enter key from the normal one, but the issue I'm trying to present is that perhaps the macros shouldn't kick in for every situation, like, entering values for skill training targets. I solved it finally by a renewed effort to make sure my set of macros were truly all deleted, but that now limits me from using one of the more usefully positioned keys on the numpad.
To be clear, I'm not upset with Crawl -- I blame the laptop creators and their stupid redesigns of keyboards that almost never make sense. How about them crappy half height up/down arrow keys? Before this devolves into a complete rage against the machine posting, I want to say perhaps Crawl could overcome this problem by not applying certain macro definitions in some situations like the one I described above. Aside from that input box for the skill training value, I don't think I had a problem with anything else using the (sad) almost as good key remappings.
In closing, I just want to say one more time -- you FOOLS who design most laptop keyboards. Oh yeah then there is the stupid centering of the touch pad regardless of if there is a numpad or not. I know there are some modular laptops that are a little better about letting you plug different modular components in, but seriously with all the options you can get in a laptop and then that get outdated, I wish there was a good OLED + keyboard lapdock that was bigger than tiny. Sorry!!! *end rant*