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Wed, 12/23/2009 - 01:04
BlueGriffon
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Not sure if this is a bug or not... but definitely unexpected behavior.

Basically, on two toons, I have set up a set of keybindings:

Shift-V: toggle "show friendly name plates"
Alt-V: toggle "show enemy name plates"
Shift-B: to activate the SmartBuff addon (great Addon, btw)

Then in View/Keyboard, I set the above bindings to CloneAll. And with "Active" off, and putting the curser in each toons window, all the bindings work as anticipated.

But, when I put "Active" back on, I get some strange behavior:

Shift-V: both toons jump in the air, but the intended functionality happens
Alt-V: toons do NOT jump, but they toggle friendly name plates (NOT the enemy name plates that was expected)
Shift-B: both toons jump in the air, but the intended functionality happens

Any ideas about what's going on?

~BlueGriffon

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Wed, 12/23/2009 - 06:53
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Phil
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I'll do some testing

Sounds like an "undocumented feature" to use MS terminology.

It may be that shift-v and alt-v are being used by GCP for something else.

To check, use views/advanced. Turn on debug, and click preview. The bottom section of this document shows the key bindings that GCP is using (and what for).

Assuming this is the issue, a fix is to remove them from the key-pool. Edit the .ini file in your c:/gamecaommanderpro/toonname.gcp_config.

You will see some line like:

POOLKEYS ^,a,x
POOLKEYS ^,0,9
POOLKEYS %,a,x
POOLKEYS %,0,9

These show the keys that GCP can use.

Looking at the first line, this says GCP can use control (the ^ symbol) with keys a thru x. Symbols are:

  • ^ = control
  • % = alt
  • + = shift

To disallow a key, we can change it to look like:

POOLKEYS ^,a,d
POOLKEYS ^,f,x
POOLKEYS ^,0,9
POOLKEYS %,a,x
POOLKEYS %,0,9

note this excludes control-e

Let me know if this is the issue, and we'll add a fix in the next release.

Phil

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Sun, 12/27/2009 - 16:24
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BlueGriffon
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Yes... this is EXACTLY the

Yes... this is EXACTLY the issue. Thanks for telling how to figure it out.

At this point, I can either take out some of they keys from the POOLKEYS (as you describe), or just know that ALT- and CTRL- modifiers are being used by GCP to send hotkey bindings to the WoW games. And then just not use those for my CloneAll keys... i.e., in WoW, I won't set up any keybindings that use ALT or CTRL. Then there will be no reason to CloneAll any of those.

~BlueGriffon

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Mon, 12/28/2009 - 08:15
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VonHenry
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Yes, thanks!

This was 95% of my heartburn with GCP, and I almost had to dump it for some other solution. Not anyone's fault, but I am a HUGE user of Shift and Alt. (The way my gaming keyboard is laid out). Having them reserved as poolkeys was not acceptable. Very happy I can (and have) disabled them!

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