Topic

inadvertant teleportation through keystrokes because of an action completing

I really don't know how to search for this one, so I'm starting a thread. I'm laughing at what just happened, but am also thinking this shouldn't happen. Or that it should be impossibleized. Because while it was funny, it was also alarming.

Nutshell: when we're doing an action, like cooking, the pop-up box telling us that our action is completed should NOT NOT NOT be able to boot us out of chat windows in which we are typing and take precedence over the chat window.

"Whyever not?" you may ask. Well, here is why:

I was cooking and IMing with someone. When the cooking action completed, the popup telling me so managed to suck me out of the IM just as I was typing a combo of keystrokes that caused me to (in order):

a) open my img menu
b) open my img cards deck
c) teleport back to the world, out of my house

I came to in Folivoria.

Hilarious and odd? Yes.
Annoying? Also yes. Usually it's just garden-variety annoying, where I have to tab or click back into the IM window after making my glitch jump up and down and opening my quest log.

But this? This is a new one. This odd, hangoverish feeling of "How did I get here? What happened?" It really did feel like a mystery alien abduction that matched the teleport face of our glitchen.

So if there's a way to turn off the automatic precedence that these popup windows take over our chat windows, that would be fantastic.

Posted 7 months ago by Voluptua Sneezelips Subscriber! | Permalink

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  • I have come very close to doing that myself several times today. 
    Posted 7 months ago by Kristen Marie Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I wonder which letters you were typing :) It happens to me. used to (before iMG and everything else) pop up the quest log and such. Like the map :)
    Posted 7 months ago by usterka Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I have been having similar problems.  Also, filling out bug reports is kind of dangerous!
    Posted 7 months ago by Carl Projectorinski Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I pop up the map all the time
    Posted 7 months ago by Jope Subscriber! | Permalink
  • happens to me frequently, you're not a freak.

    well... not for this, anyway.
    Posted 7 months ago by Addi Bee~♥ Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I haven't teleported, but I pop my quest log ALL the time (I must use a lot of "L"s in chat.)
    @AddiBee -- ROFL!!
    Posted 7 months ago by kastlin Subscriber! | Permalink
  • It's extremely annoying... I do it ALL the time. I haven't gotten far enough to TP myself somewhere tho. I agree completely that the auto-precedence should be turned off. We have to Tab to get into local chat or IM, why isn't it the same across the board?

    Off to donate, or whatever. LOL  Safe travels on your next alien abduction VS.  :D
    Posted 7 months ago by CoffeeSnob Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Agreed - please stop letting the pop-ups steal my focus!!
    Posted 7 months ago by Zany Serendipity Subscriber! | Permalink
  • OMG, yes, seventy thousand times yes. This is how I missed getting the snapshot of the new day screen when I did my experiment on how much XP it was possible to get in a single game day. I was IMing and happened to hit "return" just as the new day screen came up. The screenshot of the new day screen showing how much XP I'd earned and how much energy I'd used was to be proof of the most epic moment of my Glitchy career ... and I missed it due to an unexpected shift of focus. 

    Less traumatically, nowadays I'm always finding my Glitch jumping up and down while I'm trying to finish a sentence. I haven't accidentally TPed anywhere yet, but I must use a lot of Ms because like Jope I'm always opening and closing the map without meaning to. 
    Posted 7 months ago by Sirentist Subscriber! | Permalink
  • *impossibleized*

    That is my favorite word of the week, and we just started.

    Thanks folks!
    Posted 7 months ago by kevbob Subscriber! | Permalink
  • So... is cooking while chatting the Glitch equivalent of texting while walking?  
    Posted 7 months ago by WalruZ Subscriber! | Permalink
  • WalruZ, I hope not. Because if it was, I would likely teleport into a fountain.

    I guess for the time being, I have to slow down and stop typing like the wind. "Excuse me, miss, are you aware of how fast you were typing? I'm quite sure that was at least 90 wpm." "Sorry Mr. Deimaginator, sir. I'll slow down to 65 wpm from now on."
    Posted 7 months ago by Voluptua Sneezelips Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Pleaseity please stop stealing focus from chat, yes yes.

    This is especially problematic when framerate is low (the kind of "lag" that is stuff happening slowly on the local computer, rather than communication with the server being slow), because I'll often have most of a sentence typed but not appeared in the chat window yet, and if focus gets filched, as well as random stuff happening to my glitch, I have to retype my message.
    Posted 7 months ago by Fnibbit Subscriber! | Permalink
  • kevbob: Just FYI, I had it happen just now when I had a new item come from crafting with my Tinkertool--so apparently it hasn't been completely impossibleized yet.
    Posted 7 months ago by Don Monkey Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Don Monkey, no, impossibleization has not taken place. It's been submittalized for reviewification though.
    Posted 7 months ago by kevbob Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Thats weird lol
    Posted 7 months ago by Thepurpleskys Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I am thrilled that we have a new word or words for the magical dev processes of fixing things. I really hope that this thread eventually gets marked as [impossibleized]. :)
    Posted 7 months ago by Voluptua Sneezelips Subscriber! | Permalink