Frickin A - Where'd my keybindings go?!

Anjalena · 06-21-09, 04:30 PM

UGH, I just logged in and ... wait, okay (trying to get my memory straight), I noticed something was wrong after being on for about 45 minutes or so. My keybinding for my mount didn't work and instead made me eat one of my precious Nagrand Cherries. But, when I logged on.. yeah, I wasn't mounted. I was at Aerie Peak by the Draenei guy, and I ran over to the mailbox, and a pally went by and beefed me. I hit my key to mount up, I NEVER mount any other way, and reared my mount at him and thanked him. So yeah, it worked when I logged in. I haven't been using any of my other keys cuz I'm 73 killing trolls in Jintha'alor for mageweave cloth. So right-click to attack til dead then move on. The only changes I made today... I changed OmniCC to show min:sec, and then I opened the Key Bindings menu and clicked to the bottom of the list to make keybindings for Trinket Menu. But when I clicked on the keybinding button for Trinket Menu top button, I chose Num Pad 1 and it told me I'd unbound it from a Zhunter button. So I clicked on the top button binding again and stupidly hit the Escape button to try to clear out the Num Pad 1 choice... and ugh, that cleared the Game Menu button. So I had to scroll through the absurdly unorganized list of bindings to find the Game Menu one. After I fixed that, I came out of the menu and tried to mount up... but instead of ` mounting (as it has done for years), it ate a Nagrand cherry... which is on the vertical bar to the right side of the character display area where my mount button is on the vertical bar to the left side of it. WTH? When I looked back in the Key Bindings menu, ALL of my nUI key bindings were gone! And there are some freaky random buttons bound in the Blizz action bars. Not on all the action keys, just a few here and there. I'm baffled.

Yesterday, I updated a bunch of addons and downloaded a few new ones but after that, I logged in once or twice and played for hours and my keybindings were fine. And the only addon I've updated since then is Fishing Buddy (build K... heh). Still, I'll list everything I updated and downloaded yesterday just in case. (OH, and I didn't click the box to change from general to character specific bindings... until after I realized my key bindings were gone, then I clicked to see if it had gotten switched somehow and my bindings were on the other option. But, no. *sigh*)

Updated/Downloaded Yesterday
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AtlasQuest - updated
Bejeweled - updated
BuyEmAll - new (lets you type in more than one stack's worth at a vendor)
Comix - new and hilarious
EquipCompare - updated
FishingBuddy (ver 097i) - updated
Loot Filter - new
MapNotes for Atlas - new, but not using it since I don't have MapNotes... didn't realize I needed that. Heh.
nUI HUD Combo - new
nUI HUD Level - new
OmniCC - updated
Outfitter - new (used to have it for YEARS but got rid of it a few months back)
Peggle - updated (awesomely fun game)
Sell-O-Matic - updated
Titan Panel - updated

Updated Today
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Fishing Buddy (ver 097k) he updated twice today it seems

Any clues at all? I haven't closed WoW yet, and started looking through my nui.lua's... I've got a .bak for that character from a couple months ago. I was thinking maybe I could rename it to nui.lua and overwrite the current one? Will that fix it?

Holly

(Sorry if I'm taking you away from your Daddy/daughter time, Scott. I hope you're having a wonderful Daddy's day!)

spiel2001 · 06-21-09, 04:49 PM

I've had two glitches over the last two weeks... on one occasion, in the middle of a fight, my key bindings suddenly changed to bindings I haven't used in almost two months. And today, in the middle of a PvP fight my action bars suddenly changed to settings I haven't used in over 4 months... just rearranged all of my spells in mid-fight which got me killed way fast.

I have *no* clue what this mess is all about. It's not nUI as nUI does not record nor modify what's on your action bars or your key bindings. I think there's something going on over on Bliz's side... bad data backups or something screwy.

The odd thing is both changes were exactly old configurations I had but had long since been changed by me.

~confused~

Anjalena · 06-21-09, 05:50 PM

Oh goody, this is gonna be fun. =( It's been longer than 2 or 4 months since I changed my bindings... I make new bindings whenever I start a new char and fix them around as I level and get new skills/spells. But I've been 73 for like 5 months at least. Got hooked into working on achievements. Seriously, I'm at 98%... I should go get my level. *rofl* Anyway, thanks a bunch Scott. I appreciate you getting back to me on the holiday. I guess I'll go peruse WoW's website, see if anyone else is having this problem and what they might be doing about it.

*hugs*

Edit: I'll post back here if I find anything conclusive.

Anjalena · 06-21-09, 07:10 PM

Hrm, I logged out hours ago to post about this problem, though I left WoW on the login/pw page and didn't close the game completely. Just now, I logged back in and my key bindings are back to normal. *boggles at the concept*

I posted a message about it over on the Technical Support page on WoW's site... nobody's replied yet. Bleh.

Anjalena · 06-21-09, 08:05 PM

Okay, I can reproduce it now. Anytime I enter the Key Bindings menu, then cancel out of it, there go my action button bindings. And if I just log out and right back in, they're fixed again. BUT, it's the key bindings that I've set up using nUI's key binding function. So when you scroll down in key bindings, all the action buttons for Blizzard are empty... but scroll down further into the nUI action bar settings and that's where all my keys are bound.

At least I know how to bring them back. So, no biggie. I dunno why the error happened with you though because you were fighting. I'm quite sure you don't enter your key bindings menu while you're fighting. Especially in pvp.

You do, however, know about the bug for Mac users who use the Dvorak keyboard layout, right? They have had some issues which are, I think, supposed to be fixed in an upcoming patch.

spiel2001 · 06-22-09, 04:18 AM

Originally Posted by Anjalena

Okay, I can reproduce it now. Anytime I enter the Key Bindings menu, then cancel out of it, there go my action button bindings. And if I just log out and right back in, they're fixed again. BUT, it's the key bindings that I've set up using nUI's key binding function. So when you scroll down in key bindings, all the action buttons for Blizzard are empty... but scroll down further into the nUI action bar settings and that's where all my keys are bound.

All of the action button key bindings are supposed to be in the nUI section, not the Bliz action bar settings... those are and should be empty when you look at the key binding interface.

In short, when you log into WoW and nUI loads, it copies all of the key bindings from Blizzard's action bars to its own action bars. When you log out, it copies them back to the Blizzard action bars. What this does is make it possible for nUI to use the same key binding layout you use in the default Bliz interface and to preserve those settings so if someone disables nUI, they don't lose all of their key bindings as a result.

That is all normal behavior.

Are you sure that when you open the Bliz key binding menu that your key bindings really are gone? They actually vanish off of nUI's action bars? Or are you just basing that on the fact that the Bliz action bar bindings in the list were empty?

Petrah · 06-21-09, 08:21 PM

Originally Posted by Anjalena

I posted a message about it over on the Technical Support page on WoW's site... nobody's replied yet. Bleh.

There are no developers in tech support, so they can't help you with this (and they're not there on weekends). Best to look over in the Bug Reports forum where the devs are.

Anjalena · 06-21-09, 09:10 PM

HEY! Where's my "nUI Supporter" banner? *sniffles* *giggles*

Yeah, I did a search over there on the bugs forum cuz surely I'm not the only one to have the problem, but I didn't see any mention of it. And I hate to post again cuz the whole "cross posting" faux pas. Do you think it would be okay to post again in the Bugs forum despite that?

Edit: I just decided to delete my other post and I'll post a new one on the Bug forum. And I still want a nUI supporter banner. *giggles insanely*