Accidental mouse drag deselects too easily

[reaperrr]

From ModDB comments:

"I still have occasional problems with issuing commands.
If I want to click to send a unit to go/attack something somewhere, and I hold the click a few milliseconds too long while moving at all, it drags a tiny box instead, and my units are unselected.
It should behave like this:
if you have units selected, dragging a box of less than a given area, simply sends your units to the origin point of the box."

FWIW, now that it's been pointed out, I've had that issue a few times myself, the way it currently works is definitely not optimal. Treating it as normal click if the mouse has been moved less than n (~5?) pixels sounds like a possible solution.

[tovl]

We already do this! There is a 24 pixel deadzone on unit selection boxes in OpenRA which is the width of an entire cell. I think making it even larger would hinder the functionality of drag selecting. Also, it seems the originals had a much smaller deadzone—more in the order of the 5 pixels you suggest (and yeah, I've found it to be an annoying problem in the originals, but not so much in OpenRA).

The most that we can do here is maybe to expose the deadzone size to the settings menu, but that is about it. Otherwise I would suggest lowering your mouse sensitivity if your find that this happens often.

A more comprehensive solution might be to use a different mouse button for giving orders than we use for selecting. 😉

[reaperrr]

We already do this!

Whoops...

A more comprehensive solution might be to use a different mouse button for giving orders than we use for selecting.

That sounds like an idea worth trying to me.

In case that gets rejected for some reason, (slightly) increasing the milliseconds the mouse button needs to be pressed before it registers as dragging would be the only other alternative solution I can think of.

[pchote]

A more comprehensive solution might be to use a different mouse button for giving orders than we use for selecting.

This was a subtle hint that players should stick with the right click orders instead of switching to the classic left click 😉

[reaperrr]

I guess it shows that I don't actually play much...

[PunkPun]

Having high mouse sensitivity is detrimental to all rts's, OpenRA is no exception. He should simply reduce it.

[deleted-user-1]

(slightly) increasing the milliseconds the mouse button needs to be pressed before it registers as dragging would be the only other alternative solution I can think of.

This might still be a good idea in addition to the existing deadzone setting and might solve the problem for people with high mouse sensitivity.