Zugg Software :: View topic - Switching Screens (No more CTRL-Tab?)

Beginner Joined: 26 Dec 2005 Posts: 21

I was once able to switch between MUD windows with CTRL & Tab, but now it simply creates a tabbed indentation in the command entry field. Did Zugg move this to another set of keys?

Beginner Joined: 26 Dec 2005 Posts: 21

I guess the real question, is there another way to quick-switch between MUD windows without a mouse?

GURU Joined: 23 Dec 2000 Posts: 4834 Location: USA

Make sure you are pressing only control and tab. Control-Shift-Tab is what adds the tab to the command-line, and Shift-Tab seems to insert the next word in the scrollback buffer into the command-line. Not real sure how useful that would ever be, so I'm thinking that perhaps that's some sort of super-obscure bug or something.

Posted: Mon Apr 10, 2006 5:09 pm

Also try Ctrl-N. Ctrl-Tab is a Windows function to switch between child windows of an application, while Ctrl-N is something I put into zMUD to specifically switch between MUD windows.

Beginner Joined: 26 Dec 2005 Posts: 21

Still no luck. CTRL-TAB still only includes the spacial tab in the command line and CTRL-N works oddly. I use tabbed windows, if that matters. It's effect thus far has been to take me from window to another (MUD windows, that is), but it won't cycle back. It works only once, so to speak.

Also, Zugg, I want to mention that it's an honor to have a discourse with you. I've been using zMUD in some form or another for nearly ten years now. Thanks for all your hard work.

GURU Joined: 23 Dec 2000 Posts: 4834 Location: USA

Do you perhaps have a sticky shift key? Or perhaps your fingers are of an unusually large size (or perhaps you're using a smaller sized keyboard, like what you usually see in laptops) and thus when you think you are only using CTRL-TAB you are actually managing to slip a SHIFT in there as well?

If you've ever had zmud crash or throw up a access error of some sort, you could always try reinstallation. Sometimes (nowadays, rarely) the inner workings of ZMud itself will get tweaked by the error and there's really no way to tell what happened until you start noticing odd behavior. Sometimes even the function/command code is affected and such things will start doing things that are very slightly on the wrong side of "they aren't supposed to be doing this".

Beginner Joined: 26 Dec 2005 Posts: 21

It's definetly not a wrong key press issue.

I'll try the reinstallation sometime. Luckily I do more administrative MUD work than playing, so I don't really require the quick switches, despite how helpful they are. Perhaps this is grounds for a free cMUD upgrade? *winkwinknudgenudge*