[Fixed] Control freeze-up in 0.61

[HotWax]

I'm pretty sure this isn't a typical freeze where the program stops responding. Instead, it seems to be a case where ZDoom is locked into a certain keyboard mode and has no way to exit. Reproducing it is simple, just beat a level that has an intermission after it, and while the intermission screen is showing, hit your Talk key. Nothing will appear to happen, but ZDoom is now locked into text input mode, waiting for you to type something and hit enter. Unfortunately, enter seems not to be allowed while viewing the intermission screen, and so you're stuck, unable to bring up the menu, the console, anything. The only way out is to CTRL-ALT-DEL.

[Ultraviolet]

You should have listened when your mother told you not to talk to intermission screens.

[wildweasel]

And there is a reason why I unbind my chat key - it's practically useless for me anyways, because I never play multiplayer ZDoom. I agree that this should be fixed, but it seems to be another one of those "Don't do that!" cases.

[Graf Zahl]

"Don't do that!' is the lamest excuse for a bug that exists. As this can easily happen by accident it's not that easy. The talk key should be deactivated in single player anyway. It has happened several times that I have hit it by accident in a game and was killed as a result.

[Enjay]

The talk key should be deactivated in single player anyway.

The talk key can be useful in single player. eg Recording comments in a demo (see Romero's Legacy Ep1 run through, and I've used it to help explain bug reports).

[Graf Zahl]

Then only disable it when playing SP and not recording a demo. Where's the problem?
In normal single player games it's just annoying (which is why I have disabled it, too.)

[Lexus Alyus]

Or just desable it during intermission screens... man, it's so obveouse!!!!

[Graf Zahl]

Or just desable it during intermission screens... man, it's so obveouse!!!!

Of course. I was just stating my opinion that the talk key is useless in single player games. It has nothing to do with HotWax's bug.

[RottKing]

Heh, not to knock on your english but "desable" is spelt "disable", and "obveouse" is spelt "obvious". Just thought I'd help you with your spelling there.

[HotWax]

We've tried before, King, he never listens.

First off, I WAS recording a demo, and was attempting to make a last-minute comment before ending it. I wasn't sure if I could talk on the intermission screen, but I figured it'd be harmless to give it a try. Imagine my surprise when I found out that not only could I not talk, I had frozen all my controls and had to CTRL-ALT-DEL, losing the demo I'd recorded.

This needs to be fixed, kthx.

[NiGHTMARE]

Heh, I'd have thought you guys would have all learnt from previous threads by now that this arguing is pointless I mean, this is pretty much how every previous similar argument has gone:

Guy1: "ZDoom crashes/lock-ups if I try to do such-and-such."

Guy2: "Don't do such-and-such then."

Guy1: "That's a simply idiotic line of reasoning. This problem is trivial to solve, and as such it should be fixed right this second!"

Guy3: "Why? Like Guy2 said, just don't do it."

Guy4: "Shut up you. Guy1 is right."

(several pages later, after much questioning of everyone involved's IQ, parenatage, sexuality and the like)

Randy: "Fixed"

[Cutmanmike]

Me: Monkey fetus

[The Ultimate DooMer]

I only enabled it recently to put a few funnies in my Mock 2 demos, but it's useful for serious comments in demos too. It's ok if you have it bound to a key well away from the ones you use. (as I have caught it before now and wondered why I couldn't move, heh)

[Graf Zahl]

I always thought that 't' is a particularly bad key for it. Unfortunately it seems to be standard...

[HotWax]

I use U. T is too close to my left hand to assign something as trivial as a talk function to it.