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Title: Radio interface if god awful
Post by: BTW on July 21, 2005, 07:54:54 PM

I bailed out twice trying to get the raio bar down. Can you think of a better way to implement radio so it CANNOT affect plane control when the bar is up? I've had my engine kill when typing on radio - hit the e key. This is an ERROR in programming. The frame rate is affecting the interface - that should not happen.
You switch to another radio and start typing. If frame rate is slow, the key strokes go as plane commands. This is a huge mistake that has to be fixed.

Edit: temper that down some as I wrote it 5 minutes after it happened. But it is wrong imo. An interface bug or clumsy interface (imo of course).

I don't bail!! :D

Title: Radio interface if god awful
Post by: Swoop on July 22, 2005, 02:18:19 AM

On the AH clipboard go to:

SETUP
         CONTROLS
                         KEYBOARD MAP

And map your BAIL key to something other than enter.

(http://www.onpoi.net/ah/pics/users/209_1081438631_swoop.gif)

Title: Radio interface if god awful
Post by: BTW on July 22, 2005, 01:50:24 PM

I changed the bail key to none (i never bail :))
But that doesn't help with the problem of typing affecting plane control when the radio bar is up. I've shut off the engine while typing - hit e - a number of times.  Its agravating. I lose the first couple of words to what I'm typing sometimes as if there is some delay when typing on the radio bar.

I know my post last night had way too many caps, but imo, the radio interface is not quite finished. If the radio bar is up, the keyboard should not affect plane control.

Title: Radio interface if god awful
Post by: Furious on July 22, 2005, 02:18:40 PM

we've only been using the thing for what, five year or so.  seems to work pretty damn good.

Title: Radio interface if god awful
Post by: detch01 on July 22, 2005, 02:27:10 PM

Sounds to me like the focus shifted from the text entry window to the game window. Clicking outside of the radio box with your mouse will do that even if the radio box is up.
I'm not saying it can't happen but I've had some pretty @#$S poor frame rates playing AH on occasion and never had it affect the window focus.

Cheers,

asw

Title: Radio interface if god awful
Post by: BTW on July 22, 2005, 04:15:13 PM

You've been using the whole game for 5 or more years, and it keeps changing. Are you telling me the radio interface is perfected? If you can't find a problem in a program this intricate, well you just aint looking hard enough.

Now if the radio bar is treated as a window, why not make it stay active while up? And how about not have it come up until it is active.