Screwy UI function

[unmerged(497946)]

I noticed that sometimes the game gets "stuck" in auto-mode for buying or selling floor / wall tiles.

Whatever your mouse floats over is adorned... or sold... without you pressing a mouse button.


To reproduce:

1. Click the "sell" functionality or activate it with the hotkey
2. Hover the mouse over some tile (doesn't matter)
3. Hold LMB (left button)
4. Drag mouse over some UI element like the circle over a fertilisation stone or the menu bar at the bottom of the screen
5. Release LMB

Now the game is stuck in "sell mode". Canceling the function with RMB does not unstick this.

Unstick with a LMB double-click.

This is a pretty obtuse way of activating the feature and there is no UI feedback whatsoever so I'm guessing that's a bug. =)

 

[Xerkis]

Wow! nice find and I just did the repo. It tried to auto sell one of my Dwarves as well like that.
Not good.

 

[ShadowTani]

Nice, I had that happen a few times - I thought it was a feature I randomly hit the shortcut button for (but never managed to figure out what triggered it). I always wondered why they would make a mass sell feature THAT annoying and not a click and drag function instead, hahaha. xD

 

[City Builder]

I reported that (the buy part of it anyway) in the bug forum but never heard anything further on it. It's a frequent event that I go to place new wall or floor tiles and it gets stuck and I end up placing tiles in areas I had no intentions of placing them.

 

[unmerged(581785)]

I actually kind of like it... I use it to mass buy and sell floor tiles on an unused level.

 

[City Builder]

I actually kind of like it... I use it to mass buy and sell floor tiles on an unused level.

Why like it?

It doesn't do anything that can't be done by simply holding down the left mouse button when selling or buying and only removes your control over doing it.

I wouldn't mind to see it implemented as an actual feature where if I hold down my shift key and start to lay down the tiles that it keeps going until I release my shift, just so that I don't have to hold down the LMB, but nothing less than that where I lose control over buying and selling.