ztonzy, I and maybe others might have the “alt key bug”, which seems to be present at least since blender 2.23…now what happens is that somehow blender thinks the alt key is still pressed while it most definitly is not :< …this is annoying to say the least, especially if you rely on the A key to desselect and select meshes and vertixes a lot for modelling…the only solution is pressing alt+mouse and moving around a bit…then the shortcuts work again…
As this is happening every time I start blendering, and REALLY :x is starting getting on my nerves (even more than the absence of an undo function), I just thaught I might mention it here. :<
hmm… I have never had this problem. Never heard of it before either.
You should post this at www.blender.org in the forum there. Might be a glitch/bug that can be easily fixed.
BgDM
It happens with the shift key too and I haven’t been able to figure out what the cirumstances are that make it stick.
I don’t think it’s Blender, it’s probably just your keyboard acting weird.
There’s more than one person reporting it, and in addition, my keyboard is just fine. I spend half of every day using it and none of my keys stick. Only in blender.
actually, AFAIK, it’s a problem with the OS sending the keydown event to Blender but not sending the keyup event for whatever reason (mouse no in the correct window being one of them).
Martin
I think I found that connection too. That if I moved the mouse cursor out of the view pane before releasing the shift key, that it sticks. I wonder if its something that can be “fixed”.
I’ve seen this as a general windows problem, and found that ALT-Tabbing between applications a few times seems to free it up.
I’ve encountered it on Win98, but not XP so far…
Well…like I keep saying. I’ve been using computers for years and blender is the only application I’ve ever seen it happen to.
Blender is probably the only application where shift keys (control, shift, alt, [apple]) keys are held down so much. It is VERY doubtful any other application would show this problem because most applications only go as complex with the shift keys as keyboard shortcuts pressed once (shift+control+O for offset filter in the gimp kind of thing).
I have seen this problem too, in 98 and linux (I think).
I don’t have xp
(btw, if anybody knows why the cursor in linux may randomly jump to a strange place on screen can you let me know how to fix it. It is like the cursor tries to move 2000 pixels in it’s own direction)
Do you have an optical or wireless mouse? Sometimes that causes the effect you’re talking about…
Or perhaps its a mexican jumping cursor.
never had it either… who knows? buy a new keyboard