Chat Menus failing with keyboard shortcuts

[BillyMailman]

I went to check which character someone was on, that I was chatting with in a global channel. I clicked their name, hit "Get Local Name", and got back:

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[21:23]  
[21:23] Usage:get_local_name takes 1 args, you gave 0. 
[21:23] Get Server / Local Character name from globalname
[21:23]  get_local_name <string>

 

This persisted for every attempt I did, including for other people. I then manually ran /getlocalname THEIRGLOBALNAME, and it worked. And now, the click option's working, too. Not sure what caused it to break like that, but figured it's worth putting in the bug report, in case it happens to other people.

Edited December 5, 2020 by BillyMailman

[BillyMailman]

Updating this, it's doing it again. Running the command manually didn't do anything this time, the in-chat link is still busted. Might have restarted when I switched alts, though I can't be sure.

[Hardship]

It is working as normal for me on Excelsior as of this posting.

[ninja surprise]

Something's weird with the Chat shortcuts, for instance, if I want to reply to someone in /lfg, normally I click their name, press M (Message) and type it out.

Right now, if you click any of the M/T/E shortcuts it doesn't put the name in there, just the command a space and a comma.

 

[Hardship]

I just back to say that it works if you click it with the mouse from the menu, but if you hit the hotkey on the keyboard they do NOT work.

[Glacier Peak]

I tried entering the command in to the chat bar a moment ago and it worked for me. Is it just the pop up menu itself not working?

[BillyMailman]

This keeps happening, but I have more info:

• As Hardship said, clicking the buttons works. So, if I click someone's global, then click "Get local name", it works. If I hit the 'G' shortcut, it doesn't.
• It looks like it's basically every single command that comes up when clicking someone's name in chat, and it's just not filling in their name. Global and Local names work the same. So if I click someone's name, then hit 'M' for "Send <person> Message", it fills my chat box with "/t , " or "/t @, ", blanking out their name.
• And yeah, it's everything. Add friend, Edit Note, Messages, Invites, etc.
• Notably, right-clicking their actual character, everything works. Just names in chat are broken, and just when I use keyboard shortcuts on the resulting menu.

[BillyMailman]

And, looking around, this bug report here appears to be a duplicate of this. I've now updated the title to better reflect what I've found.

[BillyMailman]

Yet further updates: It's not even to do with using the keyboard shortcuts, it's just keyboard activity that breaks the open menu.

 

Specifically, if I let go of a key while the menu's up (say, to stop running), even clicking won't work. Ctrl, Shift, and even Tab are fine, but Alt isn't, and any letter key isn't.

Actually, it looks like maybe it's even more specific than that. Any of WASD break it on release. Which... those are the keys with ++forward or similar bound, so I think it's down to any key with an on-release bind breaking the menu when it gets release. But even keys that aren't bound (I checked, /showbind says "Nothing") don't work to actually press the shortcut key.