[#VWR-2513] Windows that don't use camera controls for anything prevent camera controls working!

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Windows that don't use camera controls for anything prevent camera controls working!

Created: 18/Sep/07 02:04 PM Updated: 22/Oct/07 04:01 AM

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VWR-2846 User Definable Shortcut Keys

SVC-267 Meta-Issue: Small improvements over big new features!

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This is an annoying one. If my inventory window is focused, then alt-arrows does nothing, when normally it should move my camera. Using the arrow keys normally seems to let me move but I'm not allowed to move my camera all of a sudden?

Same thing happens on the edit window and a whole lot of others. I propose that holding alt/option and using camera controls should ALWAYS work. Communicate is annoying as alt-arrows seems to change tabs, but that's bogus and the command key does that on Mac anyway, and the Ctrl key is as good as any for Windows. I'd much rather be able to move my camera ALL the time than have to constantly click in-world (which often messes up my camera view) just so I can adjust my view slightly!

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Haravikk Mistral added a comment - 20/Sep/07 01:28 AM

An addition to this, if my focus is on the 'chatterbox'/communicate window then I can't even move using the arrow keys. I appreciate wanting to keep text-boxes nice and functional, but I'd rather be able to move without having to click in-world first! If it means I can't use arrow-keys to move forward/backward through some text then fine, I'm used to that issue with the big chat-bar, I don't care, it's easy enough to click instead.

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Lex Neva added a comment - 20/Sep/07 09:27 AM

Quick note: I don't think many people actually use alt+arrow-keys to move the camera... I expect that most people use alt-clicking along with control and control-shift to control the camera. So this bug may have slipped through the cracks for that reason.

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Haravikk Mistral added a comment - 21/Sep/07 01:17 AM

But blocking movement as well? I don't see how they managed not to notice that, I bug-reported several times as well in the past before eventually remember to JIRA this =(

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Torley Linden added a comment - 16/Oct/07 10:36 AM

This came up at our UI triage; marking it "Won't Finish" because it isn't clear what to fix here.

We had a discussion about the subtleties of our focus model. It gets confusing if applied inconsistently; as you mentioned, Haravikk, in windows with tabs, Alt-arrow keys move those tabs, so we don't want to set up extra rules of "In all these windows but not these, camera controls will override..." Also, some suggestions, like:

[10:34] Jacek Antonelli: It's easy enough to hit escape to break keyboard focus so you can use cam around with alt+arrows.

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Haravikk Mistral added a comment - 22/Oct/07 04:01 AM

Hitting escape closes many windows! Also the interface used to always allow camera movement, that was part of the appeal of alt + camera controls!

I have however posted an alternative issue: VWR-2846