Problem - Keyboard is momentarily disabled when receiving tells

[LurkMcGurk]

I have noticed this, I think, for as long as I've been using mq now. When I am ingame, no matter what toon I am on, if the toon i'm on gets a tell, while the tell window is flashing, the keyboard keeps being disabled. This means that while i'm out running around on pulls or going somewhere, tells disrupt my movement terribly. I haven't had much issue with this as I don't usually do a whole lot of socializing in game, but occasionally when I do socialize, i'd like it if it didn't get me killed on long pulls. Has anyone else noticed this issue? I use tell windows as well and it happens while the tell window flashes after receiving a tell. This does not happen if I don't use tell windows, but that isn't an option as I would miss most tells.

 

[MaxD]

I've had the same thing happen to me, it can be annoying =p

But thanks for saying it only happens with tell windows, ill just make a window called tells and put my tells there if that's the case.

 

[LurkMcGurk]

yeah that's a good idea. i'll prolly end up doing it too on my tank so i dont die on pulls. it seems like something that mq is doing though and i imagine there is a way to disable it. of course, i could be completely wrong but i thought i'd bring it up and see if the devs here were aware of this behavior.

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I should also mention that while using tell windows, every tell will cause my computer to beep loudly. I don't mind this feature as it helps notify me when a tell is sent to a toon other than the one i'm driving on, but it definitely feels like it is an mq feature coupled to problem i'm describing above.

 

[Ronnex]

Just tested it and honestly don't have the problem that my keyboard functions are disabled when i recieve tells in tell window so not sure if it's even MQ related.
However it could be that a plugin maybe causes it.

 

[LurkMcGurk]

To clarify, when i say keyboard functions are disabled, i mean that if i'm holding down the run button (w), and receive a tell, for the duration of the tell window's blinking state, my movement is disrupted. Even if i lift my finger and re-actuate the key, it will be disrupted each time the tell window flashes.

 

[MaxD]

lurk are you using isboxer (i am) maybe its related to that a bit

 

[LurkMcGurk]

yes im using isboxer sorry i didn't mention that.

 

[Nutterr187]

i had the same issue, then I did the /beepontells and it fixed the problem, I think the issue was it was trying to call that screen to the foreground and causing it to "disable" until you actually clicked on the active screen. not sure if your issue is related, but worth a shot.

 

[eqmule]

/Beepontells toggles beeping on tells which only does one thing, it beeps on tells and don't mess with window focus in any way. The tone is run in its own thread just to prevent any lagging at all for the 200 milliseconds it lasts.

/flashontells toggles flashing the window on tells and I have gotten reports that this doesn't work well with isboxer so I would leave beepontells on and turn flashontells off.

 

[LurkMcGurk]

beepontells didn't fix it but turning flashontells off did. Thanks guys