After typing in chat I sometimes forget that the focus stays in the chat box after hitting Enter and send out a string of "wwwwasd".
Is there any way to make pressing Enter leave the chatbox's focus?
Posted Jul 16, 2019, 6:19 PM UTC
This does not happen to me, so there must be some way to do it. I kind of thought it was the default, to be honest.
Would you mind running /bind_save and replying with what ENTER is set to for you? It should be in the keybinds.txt file in your CoH's data folder.
I'm at work right now, but will check mine when I get home. The wiki says that ENTER is set to show chat$$startchat by default. I'm certain I haven't changed my binds from the default other than setting `(tilde) to target nearest in the gui.
I can confirm that enter is set to "show chat$$startchat" for me, I've also never seen the behavior you're describing.
Ok, so I got home and checked mine. I also have "show chat$$startchat".
It shows "Return" in the gui, but "ENTER" in the keybind file. I unbound the button in the gui and re-added it with no change.
Super weird!
Even weirder: I was just messing around and found out that the enter on my numpad will finish a chat message just fine (without the ability to start a chat though)!
I guess I'll have to do some experimentation. I thought it was a common problem since I've seen dozens of people over the last couple months chatting/broadcasting gibberish and making posts with the same problem.
This is actually what I have:
ENTER "afk chilly out, no?$$show chat$$startchat"
I don't think it is necessarily the bind that controls that behavior.
The default behavior is to "de-focus" the chat window after hitting enter to send a message. Are you sure this isn't an issue with your keyboard registering double key presses or something to that effect?
I thought it did. I don't have this problem.
Sounds like a bug. I'd advise going into the Options - Keybindings tab and clear Enter as the key to begin chat, save the settings, then rebind it and save again.
Mine does this, too. I’m on a Mac if that makes a difference.
If you are on Mac I ran into this problem. Go to settings and change start chat to something simple or just use what I used. Shift-Enter, after doing this hitting enter to send the chat message will also close it out and allow you to move.
I'm pretty sure this is only a problem in the OSX version.
I agree with others that this seems to be a MacOS issue. I was not aware of the [Enter] and/or [Return] binds, though. I'm going to look at that when I get home, because this issue drives me freaking crazy.
I am hoping that the answer will be yes...this gets me every time I chat