What to do if you're locked out of keyboard mode

cbloopy · Post by **cbloopy** » Sat Jun 06, 2009 5:21 pm

A few people have reported an occasional problem, when they play their custom adventures. The game's Options say "Mouse/Keyboard", but keyboard doesn't actually work, and you can't change the option.

It used to be that people have to reinstall the Editor to fix this, but I've worked out two much simpler methods that should fix the problem:

1) If your Editor is currently good (no problem with Mouse/Keyboard), you can create a backup copy of the file global.wdf. This file is inside the "User Data" folder. Then when the problem occurs for you in the future, you can just restore global.wdf from your backup, and things should be back to normal again. You may need to adjust your Options (eg. which player profile to use, music/sound volume, etc.) after restoring the backup, if they were changed between the time you make the backup and the time your problem occurs.

2) If your Editor got the problem now and you have no backup copy of global.wdf, don't worry! Just delete global.wdf. Yes, delete. When you do that and run the game again, it will ask you to select a player profile, and then the game will apparently re-create the global.wdf file. Things should be back to normal now (again, you may want to look at the Options and re-adjust them if needed).

jdl · Post by **jdl** » Sat Jun 06, 2009 5:45 pm

Does this work on MOFI too?

EDIT: If so, how will you do it if you have localsaveoff activated?

cbloopy · Post by **cbloopy** » Sun Jun 07, 2009 1:59 am

jdl wrote:Does this work on MOFI too?

EDIT: If so, how will you do it if you have localsaveoff activated?

I don't know, has the problem actually occurred to you in MOFI too? If so let me know, so I could tell Patrick to fix the problem.

My guess is the same thing should also work in MOFI. But finding where global.wdf is a little tricky with localsaveoff (the default), because the file is in a somewhat obscure location that also seems to vary a little, depending on which version of Windows you have.

To that end, I've attached a program/script you can run that will try to find the folder that has the global.wdf file for MOFI. If it's able to find it (give it a few seconds to maybe a few minutes), it will open the folder window. If not, it'll tell you it can't find it. I've only tested the script in XP and Vista, and I'm guessing it probably won't work on earlier versions of Windows.

bround · Post by **bround** » Sun Jun 07, 2009 8:12 am

I got it in WA1 (not in editor/player) Then i use my keyboard, sometimes its don't going to a spot that free. then i use mouse, it's don't going to a spot that free too!

jdl · Post by **jdl** » Sun Jun 07, 2009 11:23 am

Cbloopy, your program works! I have found the folder and have fixed the problem!

Thank you!

Marinus · Post by **Marinus** » Mon Nov 29, 2010 12:34 am

Yes Cbloopy, the program works fine for me, both in Windows 7 and XP.

About the localsaveon/off see also here:

http://pcpuzzle.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=21821

Thanks to your information, a similar problem could be solved.

^_^ · Post by **^_^** » Mon Nov 29, 2010 11:05 am

Cloopy's account is dead for a long time.
You should just say thanks when he's back.

Marinus · Post by **Marinus** » Mon Nov 29, 2010 1:25 pm

Well, perhaps you're right about that, but you'll never can be sure if he watches the forum now and then, or perhaps gets a notification-email for this topic.

My second reason to post here however is, that both topics are crosswise linked now: If in future someone reads this topic, he/she can find the link to the other topic, and vice versa.