Xindaris
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This is using the latest beta for 5.1.1.

In all previous versions of DROD, moving with the numpad didn't depend on whether numlock was pressed or not. Now I'm getting a weird behavior where the diagonal directions always work, but the orthogonal ones only work if I'm "typing numbers" (I think that's numlock on). This only seems to be true while actually going through a room; navigating between rooms in the editor doesn't have this problem.

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I'm guessing this is an SDL vs SDL2 issue in increased specificity in command key mappings.

We should check whether the pre-existing Steam version, which uses SDL2, also has this issue.

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It's the same in Steam version.

It appears it will be fixed in SDL 2.0.14 - https://bugzilla.libsdl.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5274

Until then we could maybe add some magic code to auto translate those events, while tracking numlock state and such, build from SDL 2.0.14 sources ourselves or leave it as-is.

I personally don't consider this a bug - in almost every other application numpad behavior changes depending on numlock state so I've never had an issue with this.

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I agree it isn't a big deal since anyone can just try pushing numlock and fix it, but it is slightly weird, especially since numlock still doesn't matter for navigating rooms in the editor.

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That's because in some places there is code that handles those two cases.

Btw, somthing similar was reported previously here and here.

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Right, entering numbers with the numpad has always not really worked right in DROD's textbox-type interfaces. I've noticed that a lot while scripting things that needed to do calculations, but I do consider that a separate thing from this, personally.

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