You cannot enter.

[Scarlet Shocker]

That's what she said too!

 

Puns and aphorisms aside, this is a problem during the ToT season. The rest of the year less so but when we're checking out totty, usually in some sleazy motel, we keep getting this message;

You cannot enter. OK

 

OKAY?

 

No very far from OK

 

Because I'm already struggling to see what the hell is goiong on in my screen with all the FX and costume powers and names and stuffs... so now I've got even more distractions and where the fuck has my mouse pointer buggered off to anyhow? Sometimes that's the biggest issue. It becomes almost a divination ritual just to see where the little spear that shows what I'm meant to be looking at is, so clicking the OK button is now an actually significant challenge. Not the least of which is because some arse of a Supatroll has just barged me out of the way as well. 

 

I know I can't get into most doors but it would be lovely if these messages autofaded. I don't know if that's doable but it would be a great help. 

 

 

[The Trouble]

You could try: /macro OK dialog_yes

 

Or bind it to a key of your choice since a macro can imply clicking...

 

Enjoy!

[Scarlet Shocker]

that's incredibly useful. I didn't know it was a thing but thank you. 

 

But one question: How does it know what is ok? 

 

How do I bind it? I think I'd want a clicky in my Power trays?

Edited Wednesday at 09:17 PM by Scarlet Shocker
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[The Trouble]

7 minutes ago, Scarlet Shocker said:

that's incredibly useful. I didn't know it was a thing but thank you. 

 

But one question: How does it know what is ok? 

 

How do I bind it? I think I'd want a clicky in my Power trays?

"dialog_yes" is the base command and will select OK, Yes, or Accept on any menu prompt that has focus.

 

Since you want it as a button on your Power Trays, then all you need to do is copy-paste 

/macro OK dialog_yes

into your chatbox, and hit Enter.  "OK" is simply the button label, so you can make that say anything you want.

[Scarlet Shocker]

Fantastic, thanks very much

 

[Psyonico]

I'm not sure windows has this feature (it should) but in my linux version you can shake the mouse and the cursor gets big for a couple seconds so that you can find it. 

[Scarlet Shocker]

57 minutes ago, Psyonico said:

I'm not sure windows has this feature (it should) but in my linux version you can shake the mouse and the cursor gets big for a couple seconds so that you can find it. 

 

I've never known that in Linux. I use it for my day2day stuff and have a Windows gaming rig 

 

What distro are you using?

 

[Psyonico]

I use Fedora, but that feature is specific to KDE Plasma and is on by default.

[Rudra]

49 minutes ago, Scarlet Shocker said:

 

I've never known that in Linux. I use it for my day2day stuff and have a Windows gaming rig 

 

What distro are you using?

 

If you are using Windows 11, you can go into your mouse settings and turn on "show location of pointer when press CTRL key".

[Chris24601]

I wonder if I could add that dialogue macro with a $$ to my existing “click item” macro.

[Scarlet Shocker]

20 hours ago, Psyonico said:

I use Fedora, but that feature is specific to KDE Plasma and is on by default.

 

I used Fedora for around a decade but never KDE

 

20 hours ago, Rudra said:

If you are using Windows 11, you can go into your mouse settings and turn on "show location of pointer when press CTRL key".

 

I could stick needles in my eyes too and that would solve the problem in a different way 🤣

 

20 hours ago, Chris24601 said:

I wonder if I could add that dialogue macro with a $$ to my existing “click item” macro.

 

I'd love it to be clickless

[Scarlet Shocker]

On 10/15/2025 at 10:15 PM, The Trouble said:

You could try: /macro OK dialog_yes

 

Or bind it to a key of your choice since a macro can imply clicking...

 

Enjoy!

 

I can confirm this works beautifully thank you 🙂

 

 

Edited to add: you have to spell it the American way, not the English way. As Winston Churchill once put it: England and America are two nations divided by a common language

Edited 22 hours ago by Scarlet Shocker
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[Rudra]

7 minutes ago, Scarlet Shocker said:

20 hours ago, Rudra said:

If you are using Windows 11, you can go into your mouse settings and turn on "show location of pointer when press CTRL key".

 

I could stick needles in my eyes too and that would solve the problem in a different way 🤣

I don't understand your response. How is being able to simply press a key to see where your pointer is a bad thing like... sticking needles in your eyes?

[Scarlet Shocker]

Just now, Rudra said:

I don't understand your response. How is being able to simply press a key to see where your pointer is a bad thing like... sticking needles in your eyes?

 

I wasn't being completely serious. Sorry if you took it that way. I've almost no intention of going for Windows 11 

 

 

[Rudra]

30 minutes ago, Scarlet Shocker said:

 

I wasn't being completely serious. Sorry if you took it that way. I've almost no intention of going for Windows 11 

 

 

Windows 10 has the same option. If you aren't using 10 or 11? I would have to look up similar features.

[Scarlet Shocker]

30 minutes ago, Rudra said:

Windows 10 has the same option. If you aren't using 10 or 11? I would have to look up similar features.

 

I use 10 but I've never seen the option. I'd be interested to know if it's doable

 

[Rudra]

17 minutes ago, Scarlet Shocker said:

 

I use 10 but I've never seen the option. I'd be interested to know if it's doable

 

Open "Settings", select "Devices", select "Mouse", select "Additional mouse options", select "Pointer Options", turn on "Show location of pointer when I press the CTRL key". (Edit: Then when you press CTRL, not hold, just press, a shrinking circle zooms in on the pointer.)

 

Edited Thursday at 09:48 PM by Rudra

[Jacke]

8 minutes ago, Rudra said:

Open "Settings", select "Devices", select "Mouse", select "Additional mouse options", select "Pointer Options", turn on "Show location of pointer when I press the CTRL key". (Edit: Then when you press CTRL, not hold, just press, a shrinking circle zooms in on the pointer.)

 

I followed that and it works, thank you.  That shrinking ring happens when a Control key is released from being held down.

 

 

[Captain Fabulous]

I just leave the window open and move it to the side out of the way. :shrug:

[Scarlet Shocker]

52 minutes ago, Captain Fabulous said:

I just leave the window open and move it to the side out of the way. :shrug:

 

I genuinely hadn't considered this but as things stand already, I have too many windows open