[Mark]

I have been living with this annoyance in Mapster ever since I learned to map. After I exit Mapster and move on to entering text into any other program, half way through the first or second sentence I see that the Caps button was on and screwed things up. If I had a dollar for every time this has happened I could retire early.

Would it be possible to have Mapster check and turn off Caps lock key at exit? My other need which is similar I think I can automate part of it by making a keyboard macro command to press after Mapster starts. It becomes tedious to press this combo 100's of times.

escape
L to load
scroll to the map
enter
caps lock to set gravity
I for TROR boundries
' and x to enable Polymer lighting

[The Mechanic]

Mark., on 03 August 2015 - 01:47 PM, said:

After I exit Mapster and move on to entering text into any other program, half way through the first or second sentence I see that the Caps button was on and screwed things up. If I had a dollar for every time this has happened I could retire early.

Guess I have to second that ! Even better would be to restore the original caps lock when loosing focus - though I suspect that it might not be as easy as it sounds. But yeah, restore capslock on exit would avoid a few pennies dropping in the old swear box.

TTFN,
Jon

[Mark]

I programmed a macro key on my keyboard to simulate a few key presses. It works outside of Mapster but if I press the macro with Mapster running, Windows tells me the key is not assigned. So I'll just have to give up on that one.

How about this one. Would it be possible to make Mapster accept lower and upper cased "s" when using the F2 sound sort command in 2D mode. Because every session with Mapster requires hitting the CapsLock to set gravity. Then I have to turn it off for the lower cased "s" needed for the sort. Again, if its only done a few times its not a big deal but with as many times as I need to access it that feature would be handy.

[Helixhorned]

Mark., on 03 August 2015 - 01:47 PM, said:

I have been living with this annoyance in Mapster ever since I learned to map. After I exit Mapster and move on to entering text into any other program, half way through the first or second sentence I see that the Caps button was on and screwed things up.

Would it be an option for you to disable CapsLock on the OS level by something like that? The CapsLock key would still propagate to Mapster32 and make it do what it should, but the CapsLock keyboard state would not toggle on and off. As an added bonus, if you map it to Ctrl, you're halfway to becoming an Emacs user, too .

[The Mechanic]

Mark., on 15 August 2015 - 02:53 PM, said:

How about this one. Would it be possible to make Mapster accept lower and upper cased "s" when using the F2 sound sort command in 2D mode. Because every session with Mapster requires hitting the CapsLock to set gravity. Then I have to turn it off for the lower cased "s" needed for the sort. Again, if its only done a few times its not a big deal but with as many times as I need to access it that feature would be handy.

Ah-ha ! As one of my machines has occasional intermittent keyboard issues I thought not being sort sometimes was my problem, It was the CAPSLOCK after all ! Surely that should be fixable.

Another feature I'd like is being able to group sounds in a similar way to tile texture's 'T' key, goups such as actors, doors, ambient, electrical, that kinda thing.

TTFN,
Jon