Chat Constantly Loses Focus

[Nic]

http://www.arcengames.com/mantisbt/view.php?id=3766
Chat entry seems to lose focus every time the set of recent messages shown changes, and so stops receiving input.

This had been a longstanding issue, and is probably the single most actively annoying bug for me, keeping me away from a smooth multiplayer game.

For now I'm wondering if this is a problem happens for other people -- Does chat entry work perfectly for you? Is this problem as annoying for you as it is for me?

[keith.lamothe]

There's some bug either in the Unity textbox or in how we're using it.  In AVWW we totally rewrote our GUI code to not use Unity controls, except for the textboxes (and then only if that textbox has the cursor in it), and it seems to work fine if it's the only unity control at all.  Hopefully we'll be able to retrofit AIW's GUI the same way to clear a lot of this up.

[doctorfrog]

A band-aid fix for this might be to have a hotkey left open for chatbox entry field focus.

[keith.lamothe]

A band-aid fix for this might be to have a hotkey left open for chatbox entry field focus.

We can't programmatically tell it "give this textbox focus", regrettably.

[7cardcha]

This is a massive problem for me. It makes it very hard to chat in multiplayer.

[Hearteater]

Is this something that will change when AVWW's UI stuff gets moved to AI Wars?

[keith.lamothe]

Is this something that will change when AVWW's UI stuff gets moved to AI Wars?

In theory