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LuckyDee:

--- Quote from: CaioMGA on January 17, 2014, 18:46 ---'esc' does have a function, it cancels commands such as 'i', or 'f' or 'e'
I am having trouble when using 'S' over a stair.

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OK, since you know what you're doing we can rule out ignorance :)
(No offence meant of course, ignorance is the #1 cause of errors that I run into myself, so it's best to check for that first)

What strikes me as strange is that - if I understand you correctly - everything works fine at the start, then changes during the game. I have no actual knowledge of how the game itself works, but I have a hunch it's not the game that's causing the problem.

To make sure it's not the keyboard settings, have you tried purposely switching in-game? The combos should be either CTRL+SHIFT or L.ALT+SHIFT for both WinXP and Win7. You can easily test this by just mucking about with these on the first level.

thelaptop:
I don't believe it is the "soft" keyboard layout -- it's probably related to the scan codes that the keyboard is generating.  I only say this because it is noted that the keyboard used is based on the ABNT2 layout.  If I remember correctly, DoomRL registers key presses via the scan codes, and I think those scan codes are related to US/US-international keyboards.  This means that something as simple as "SHIFT-S" may require something weird on the actual keyboard, regardless of the set "soft" layout.

I don't have access to my machines with source code access now, or I can give a more concrete verification/answer.  Sorry.  One way to test out this is to use a US keyboard and see if the issues still occur.

CaioMGA:

--- Quote from: thelaptop on January 18, 2014, 03:05 ---( ... ) it's probably related to the scan codes that the keyboard is generating.  I only say this because it is noted that the keyboard used is based on the ABNT2 layout.

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The problems can't be the scan codes.

Controls work just fine in the early-game, but suddenly they crash.

If the problem was the scan codes, it would not work in the first level as well. The keyboard is sending the same 'signals'.

Anyway, I will try the US layout and see if any bugs occur

CaioMGA:

--- Quote from: LuckyDee on January 18, 2014, 00:55 ---OK, since you know what you're doing we can rule out ignorance :)

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Ok...


--- Quote from: LuckyDee on January 18, 2014, 00:55 ---To make sure it's not the keyboard settings, have you tried purposely switching in-game? The combos should be either CTRL+SHIFT or L.ALT+SHIFT for both WinXP and Win7. You can easily test this by just mucking about with these on the first level.

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After your suggestion I tried them.
And surprisingly, I got the messed controls at my first run, on the 3rd level.

I did it again, to be sure it was not just a coincidence.
In fact, it was.
I could not replicate it on my second run.
I decided to just play it in a more aggressive way:  Running trough enemies with the chainsaw and killing everything, keeping my fingers away from the shift and ctrl keys. I got the messed controls eventually.

I have a very safe gameplay, different from the berserker that also gave me bad controls.

The bug seems random.

I was playing in fullscreen, so I tried to "alt+tab" during my sessions, maybe it could mess the controls.
Again, no effect. I got the messed controls on just playing it.

I will play with US layout, in my ABNT2 keyboard.
I will post the results of the experiment later.

Thanks for your help

Equality:
have a such problem too, but because of changing keyboard layout and language. No, if switch to windowed, language indicated as "EN", but after pressing switch language keys, all becomes right. So: do not press keys for switch your language in game. If suddenly game do not react as usual try swith languages if you have some.

Scan-codes have no meaning here, only "windows keys".

Keyboard -> scan codes -> windows translation -> game. If layout or input language changed the game got "invalid" keys

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