[Bug?] Pressing Enter clicks the link under the mouse cursor

[m4rcel]

I don't know if this actually is a bug, or a planned feature. If your mouse is over a link (linked label or Quad, or some element with ScriptEvents="1"), pressing Enter will let you press this link.

As soon as you listen on the Enter key via ManiaScript, this becomes a problem: Instead of receiving the KeyPress event of Enter (e.g. to start the game on Tetris), you click the link below the mouse cursor, which may be confusing to the user. So I personally think, this "Click with Enter" feature (if it is one) should be removed.

[TomRiddle]

uhm this was included to tmf also. you can change the object focus with tab and then you can click with enter.

[TMarc]

You have also to consider that people might use only keyboard or joystick, like with a game console, and discard the mouse completely while playing

[konte]

But you don't have actual links in Tetris anyway, do you?

Concerning what TMarc and TomRiddle said: I would rather improve the Tab handling^^ I think sorting the objects from top to bottom of the script would be better than from left to right of the screen or what it is at the moment.

Anyway, in my opinion global functions should be kept above specific MS handling. And this is not such a big problem anyway...

[m4rcel]

Controls with ScriptEvents="1" count as links, too. So if you have your mouse over the Menu and press Enter to start or pause the game, you instead "click" in the Menu on that control below the mouse. And this is what I find confusing...

[konte]

okay, I didn't realise that part. Then, at least a distinction between clicking and pressing enter or an additional property (enter used) would make sense there, since not even all the ScriptEvents="1" (and I suppose, action="1" will have the same behaviour) elements are supposed to be clicked but maybe are just to detect mouse hovering.

But for your script, one idea: Insert a if-condition at the beginning of the while(True) loop, with KeyReturn as the condition. If it's true, do your start-the-game code and then add a continue to the end, so that no other code will be executed (and a yield should be at some point, of course).

And a general suggestion would be just not to use Enter at all but Space for example

[m4rcel]

But for your script, one idea: Insert a if-condition at the beginning of the while(True) loop, with KeyReturn as the condition. If it's true, do your start-the-game code and then add a continue to the end, so that no other code will be executed (and a yield should be at some point, of course).

This is a very nice idea, thank you. If I have a free time, I will look if I can workaround this

And a general suggestion would be just not to use Enter at all but Space for example

I personally prefer to have a Enter as a key for such basic actions especially for pausing the game, as you can hit it very fast (because of its size) if you have to get afk very quickly (And space is already in use ^^)
(Nevertheless, each user can still change this key to anything else... Thanks to the free configurable controls of Tetris )