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Flight Controls are lost when chatting in MP mode

Postby hypothrax » Sat Jan 10, 2015 6:27 pm

FG Version: 3.2
OS: Windows 8.1 Pro.
Aircraft: C172P, Seneca Piper 34A
Primary Input: Laptop Keyboard
Issue:If you send more than one message in multiplayer chat, the flight controls get disabled. Instead, pressing left and right arrow keys function as viewing keys. Pressing left arrow key turns the view left. Press the right arrow key and the view turns right. Even Pg Up and Pg Dn keys don't work anymore. Ultimately, you have to reset your session. Am I doing something wrong or is this a bug?
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Re: Flight Controls are lost when chatting in MP mode

Postby Johan G » Sat Jan 10, 2015 6:38 pm

Off the top of my head I can only think of one way around it, that you could try if you encounter it again: Try pressing the escape key [Esc] a few times till you get the FlightGear exit dialogue, and then press it one more time to close that dialogue. I think that might help.

Does it only happen sometimes or does it consistently happen every time you send more than one multiplayer chat message?
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Re: Flight Controls are lost when chatting in MP mode

Postby hypothrax » Sun Jan 11, 2015 11:06 am

Consistently - I will try the ESC key and report back.
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Re: Flight Controls are lost when chatting in MP mode

Postby simbambim » Sun Jan 11, 2015 3:53 pm

It has happened to me that I lost some controls (flaps and brakes) when I used the pilot list to address somebody. A message appeared and "]" was typed instead of giving me flaps and "b" instead of braking. That was in 3.0, I haven't tried it in 3.2 because I stopped using the pilot list for chat, I just use chat dialog. Once it happened on the ground too, so I couldn't release the parking brake and had to reset the session. It doesn't happen always, but probably with just some key combinations (or two messages?).
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Re: Flight Controls are lost when chatting in MP mode

Postby legoboyvdlp » Mon Jan 12, 2015 3:13 pm

That actaully makes sense! You might want to type brakes or breakfast in mpchat. Once you CLOSE dialog and press enter controls are back.
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Re: Flight Controls are lost when chatting in MP mode

Postby sanhozay » Mon Jan 12, 2015 5:05 pm

For example:

ATC: Brakes or breakfast?
Pilot: Breakfast!

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Re: Flight Controls are lost when chatting in MP mode

Postby Johan G » Mon Jan 12, 2015 5:19 pm

:lol: Quite an eye catcher. ;)
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Re: Flight Controls are lost when chatting in MP mode

Postby simbambim » Mon Jan 12, 2015 7:54 pm

legoboyvdlp wrote in Mon Jan 12, 2015 3:13 pm:Once you CLOSE dialog and press enter controls are back.

There was no way to close it. The first time I encountered this I was about 3 miles from the runway landing at a controlled airport, and it was my first day on multiplayer... which was made unforgettable this way. :roll:
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Re: Flight Controls are lost when chatting in MP mode

Postby legoboyvdlp » Mon Jan 12, 2015 8:26 pm

I mean, close the dialog you normally use, and press enter.
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Re: Flight Controls are lost when chatting in MP mode

Postby simbambim » Sun Jan 18, 2015 10:44 pm

I can't reproduce it. Must have been something else for me. Or it's gone with the new version.
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Re: Flight Controls are lost when chatting in MP mode

Postby CaptainTech » Thu Sep 03, 2015 7:14 pm

Great thanks to @simbambim for linking me to this thread!


I have to struggle with this problem too.
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