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Posted: Sat Jul 05, 2008 5:47 am

This happened in 2.29, and I thought I had posted it, but apparently I didn't.

Originally, my post pointed out that %pick and #PICK would not hold the values, even when they started with an *. That was fixed for 2.29. The problem now?

#FORALL %pick("p:Select your choices", "*test|test2|test3|*test4|test5") {#SAY %i} (and any other variation of #PICK/%pick)

will show test and test4 highlighted, but click on another line, and the MUD clears your choices. Now, the workaround for this is to hold down Ctrl (just like you would in Windows to select multiple items not in subsequent order).

As you can imagine, this might get a bit messy. For instance, my spellup script? The variable contains 30+ spells, and about 95% of them preselected. Make one wrong click, and I have to select them all again. Anyway, I hope this is an easy fix.

Charneus

Enchanter Joined: 11 Feb 2003 Posts: 511 Location: USA

Is this really a bug? With multiple selections, Windows has always cleared anything if you don't hold CTRL, no matter what is selected by default. Now, not saying there may not be a way to allow preselections to be maintained, just not sure if that would be a feature or a bug.

Posted: Sat Jul 05, 2008 2:33 pm

For sake of what people are used to within zMUD and CMUD (before the initial bug), it should probably go back to maintaining the preselections without you having to hold down CTRL. *shrug*

Charneus

Posted: Sat Jul 05, 2008 3:20 pm

I see what your saying Charneus, but remember one of Zugg's goals for CMUD is to make it behave more like a standard windows application.

Posted: Mon Jul 07, 2008 7:47 pm

Yes, sorry, but CMUD is using the standard Windows List box control and that requires you to hold down the CTRL key to make multiple selections. zMUD used a custom control for this. I'll think about whether it is even possible to provide an option for this with the standard Windows control or not, but it's not an easy fix and is going to be a very low priority.

Posted: Mon Jul 07, 2008 7:49 pm

Hmm, wait a sec...are you saying that this worked prior to the bug fix in v2.29? Did old versions allow you to multi-select without the Ctrl key? I didn't think the bug fix in 2.29 would cause anything like this, but maybe there was some other property value of the list component that got changed when I was messing with the 2.29 bug fix.

Posted: Mon Jul 07, 2008 10:14 pm

Right. Prior to the bug found in 2.29 (or whatever version it stopped working in), you could click on an item without holding down control and it would select it. Don't know what caused it to change, though...

Charneus

Posted: Tue Jul 08, 2008 4:39 pm

OK, I'll take a closer look at this then. The version prior to 2.29 also used the normal Windows pick list component, so it sounds like I accidentally changed one of the list properties when I was messing with the bug fix in 2.29. Hopefully it will be easy to fix.