Hi,
I played dwarf fortress for about a week now, and started on Masterwork DF due to a Youtube Video, until I realized that it used the old version of the game. So I downloaded this pack and nearly searched my fingers bloody because for some reason I couldn't toggle DFHacks box select in the designations menu (ALT-M). I tried remapping the key in the DFhacks.ini but for some reason it doesn't work (There is only one ALT+M key listed and remapping it does squat). So I searched and searched going insane, laughing maniacally and all that. Masterwork DF worked just fine, so what is it?
After a while I wanted to press some other ALT related key in some other menu, I don't remember. I didn't think anything of it just "Ah great that doesn't work either", playing on like the stubborn dwarfs I command.
Well until today when I loaded up the game again, and the answer stared me in the face. Quickfort. Quickfort with its nice tooltip. I closed it, everything was fine.
So QF for some reason intercepts the ALT related keys.
And yeah I know I searched this topic before it already came up with ALT+W and the workflow. But the reason I didn't find it in my search is because I searched for ALT-M and Box select DFhack not working, so I guess it never came up. So the reason why I am posting this is in hopes to make the search for somebody else less frustrating. (And I felt like I searched EVERYWHERE! Forums, bug lists, known Issues you name it!)
I guess it must be a recent issue because DFHacks "mousequery: Changed box-select key to Alt+M" was from 5. January 2015
https://github.com/DFHack/dfhack/blob/master/NEWSSo thats about it, again I hope it helps somebody and it felt good to write it down somehow^^
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Topic: PeridexisErrant's DF Starter Pack (Read 4126461 times)