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IDProjectCategoryLast Update
0001001AI War 1 / ClassicGUIJan 17, 2011 12:26 am
Reporterciaran Assigned ToChris_McElligottPark  
Status resolvedResolutionfixed 
Product Version4.021 
Summary0001001: Cannot send chat message with return
DescriptionUnder OS X, it doesn't seem possible to send a chat message with the keyboard after typing it. So either from the chat dialog (brought up by pressing enter) or from the message log, I type in my message, and then I must use the mouse to press the send button. Same applies to the lobby.

As someone who reaches for the mouse only as a last resort, this is excruciatingly painful :)
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keith.lamothe

Nov 1, 2010 2:43 pm

administrator   ~0002473

Chris, is this what you see on your mac(s)?

ciaran

Nov 1, 2010 11:06 pm

reporter   ~0002514

Actually, I remembered this wrong – enter works fine in the lobby.

ciaran

Nov 2, 2010 6:15 pm

reporter   ~0002563

Any news on this? It makes coordinating while playing multiplayer really horrible :(

ciaran

Nov 4, 2010 12:38 am

reporter   ~0002668

Clicking in the game view to remove focus from the text field makes return work to send the message. So at least I can just click anywhere and then press return instead of having to press the button…

Chris_McElligottPark

Nov 4, 2010 12:40 am

administrator   ~0002670

I will check on this, but it's likely to be a fairly ugly one to try to track down, and right now there's other stuff that is higher priority on my shortlist. But don't worry, we don't ignore stuff that's in mantis.

ciaran

Nov 4, 2010 12:43 am

reporter   ~0002671

OK, thanks – it’s good to have it acknowledged at least.

It won’t be nearly as bad now that I can just click anywhere, but if this affects all OS X users then I would imagine it would put off a lot of people who want to play multiplayer (and won’t have discovered the work-around) :(

Chris_McElligottPark

Nov 4, 2010 12:47 am

administrator   ~0002672

Mostly we expect you'll use some sort of voice chat, honestly. Not that the text chat isn't helpful and useful, but AI War is best played using something like skype, teamspeak, or similar. That's certainly not always possible, of course, which is why we have the text chat.

ciaran

Nov 4, 2010 6:28 am

reporter   ~0002676

Yeah I can see that would be better, and it’s something I would use, but in the games I’ve started people are using text-chat.

Chris_McElligottPark

Jan 7, 2011 1:33 pm

administrator   ~0007714

I still need to test this on OSX -- will do so before 4.4.

Chris_McElligottPark

Jan 17, 2011 12:26 am

administrator   ~0008813

Sorry about the slowness on my response here; so many issues, and this one got lost in the shuffle. I tested in the latest versions, and Enter works fine on my OSX laptop. We redid a lot of the menu handling, so it's hopefully just going to be the case that the latest betas resolve the issue for anyone that was previously having it.

Issue History

Date Modified Username Field Change
Nov 1, 2010 2:40 pm ciaran New Issue
Nov 1, 2010 2:43 pm keith.lamothe Note Added: 0002473
Nov 1, 2010 11:06 pm ciaran Note Added: 0002514
Nov 2, 2010 6:15 pm ciaran Note Added: 0002563
Nov 4, 2010 12:38 am ciaran Note Added: 0002668
Nov 4, 2010 12:40 am Chris_McElligottPark Note Added: 0002670
Nov 4, 2010 12:43 am ciaran Note Added: 0002671
Nov 4, 2010 12:47 am Chris_McElligottPark Note Added: 0002672
Nov 4, 2010 6:28 am ciaran Note Added: 0002676
Jan 7, 2011 1:33 pm Chris_McElligottPark Note Added: 0007714
Jan 7, 2011 1:33 pm Chris_McElligottPark Assigned To => Chris_McElligottPark
Jan 7, 2011 1:33 pm Chris_McElligottPark Status new => acknowledged
Jan 17, 2011 12:26 am Chris_McElligottPark Note Added: 0008813
Jan 17, 2011 12:26 am Chris_McElligottPark Status acknowledged => resolved
Jan 17, 2011 12:26 am Chris_McElligottPark Resolution open => fixed
Apr 14, 2014 9:28 am Chris_McElligottPark Category Bug - UI => GUI