GP award steals focus during master looting

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When I'm master looter and I award loot, about a second afterwards, EPGP 
pops up a box to award GP for the loot.

This is cool.

The problem is that the GP award box steals keyboard focus. This has 
several problems:

* if I'm in the middle of chatting and I press enter before I notice the 
GP box, the default GP is assigned and the box goes away... but our guild 
uses custom GP values

* this is also a problem if the loot is off-spec, BoE, or DE, where the GP 
needs to be changed too

* if I press my vent push-to-talk key, it overwrites the GP value in the 
GP box

Obviously there are work arounds for this: one of which is get in the 
habbit of pausing after awarding loot, another is to undo GP mistakes 
manually using negative GP.

But I suggest changing the GP box so that it does not steal focus. This 
would make it much safer to use.

Thanks for EPGP, it's settling in fairly well for our guild over the past 
2 weeks. It seems prettyw ell  designed. And thanks for listening to my 
suggestion above.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by nelfish....@gmail.com on 26 Jan 2009 at 5:48

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Stop chatting while looting might be a good solution to this. There is an UNDO 
button
which will also undo the last EP or GP action, so no need to enter negative GP. 
Once
you get used to using it, these will not be a problem for you.

Original comment by dingochavezz@gmail.com on 26 Jan 2009 at 10:25

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Thanks for your reply.

I appreciate your suggestion, but looting time is when the amount of chatting I 
need
to do is highest during a raid. I'm uisng vent, whispers and raid chat all 
heavily
when master looting.

The other problem is I am often master looting in normal raids but we only use 
EPGP
for heroic raids.

However, of course I can try and get into the habbit of pausing after awarding 
loot.

I didn't notice the Undo button, thanks for that tip. I will keep an eye out 
for it.

Anyway, I only made this suggestion in case other people might also find it 
useful.

Thanks again for EPGP.

Original comment by purpleb...@gmail.com on 26 Jan 2009 at 12:23

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Yes sorry, I should have put in a :) at the end of the bit about chatting, was 
meant
as a joke.

Original comment by dingochavezz@gmail.com on 26 Jan 2009 at 1:29

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It helps a bit if you bind vent to a 4th or 5th mouse button or something that 
doesn't produce output to the 
screen.

I will look into not changing focus when the chat is open. If I make it to 
never get focus automatically this will 
break functionality people expect to be there: that is "enter" and default GP 
is credited or "esc" and GP is 
canceled.

Original comment by evlogimenos on 27 Jan 2009 at 12:41

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I found another work around. I installed EPGP LootMaster. It totally changes 
the way
master looting works, and in my opinion, for the better. Even if none of the 
raid
members use the LootMaster greed/need/pass system, it's still an improvement.

It is also reliable at intercepting loot and looks like it would award GP 
reliably
too. I haven't yet tried it in a raid where GP was awarded.

Original comment by purpleb...@gmail.com on 29 Jan 2009 at 8:04

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It works perfectly with EPGP, best to get the whole raid using it.

Original comment by dingochavezz@gmail.com on 29 Jan 2009 at 9:27

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Original comment by evlogimenos on 26 Feb 2009 at 12:29

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Our guild is now using EPGP LootMaster for all our raids. Looting is now much 
simpler
and faster. It's a fantastic addon for many reasons, and one fo them 
improvements is
that the GP awarding is easier to control, and this bug is no longer an isue 
for us.
Thanks for listening anyway.

Original comment by purpleb...@gmail.com on 4 Mar 2009 at 12:53

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Our guild is also using EPGP LootMaster and it has helped with time SO much. We 
now
make it a required mod to have.

We just recently cleared all content in one night, 4 hours. I don't think we 
would
have been able to do this unless we had EPGP LootMaster in use, it saves that 
much
time. And when I say all content, i mean maly sarth and nax.

Original comment by Oxg...@gmail.com on 4 Mar 2009 at 5:27

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Original comment by evlogimenos on 12 Mar 2009 at 11:29

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Closing since EPGPLootMaster fills this gap.

Original comment by evlogimenos on 29 Mar 2009 at 1:53

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