Deb Jones
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It would be in Mojang's interests to sort this out before release, or at least have a plan. It will be perceived as a withdrawal of support for the mac (especially in conjunction with the response to "designed for" the mac earlier from the Mojang staff). It is effectively unplayable for me this way. I want to upgrade my SMP server. My other players will want horses. I won't upgrade if I can't play! If I get stalled too long on this I'll be gone. Minecraft is awesome, but if it's too hard, there's other things in the world that are awesome.
It seems very possible to me that this isn't a bug with LWJGL, and they've just decided that direct key access is more important for games.
Either way, Mojang, if you just add key-customisation for the other places we use clicks/right clicks, or have a check box at the top of the customisation to use the fight/use keys for all click/right click areas, that would be enough to hold me. A promise probably would, actually.
One further comment - Mojang, you're the ones responsible to your user base. Blaming the library and shrugging off responsibility is not a good look, even though it's a sadly common malaise among IT staff. Be the leaders here. It's your code. If you think it is a problem with the library, please raise it as an issue yourselves. Because it's your code, you can provide much better and more relevant information to LWJGL than we can. We'd be happy to throw votes behind it. We have supported your program. Support us. Do the right thing here.
Duplicate - is the bit where it killed clicking across the whole OS also duplicated? in the other thread?
Agree with Bill - I could get used to consistent key bindings. At least in the short-medium term while a modifier key strategy is figured out.
Unfortunately because I was watching this forum (hoping, I guess) rather than play (while there was no real possibility of playing an up to date game) at the moment, the windows users on my server upgraded happily in anticipation of horses, so now I'll get to upgrade a server I can't yet play on.
I am not interested in being told to buy a mouse. I'll be getting a Leap before I get a mouse.