Stupid question: Stopping tray from "flipping"


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Is there a way to do this? I'm not always the most precise with my mousing and sometimes it's faster to manually click stuff. Yet, every now and again, it rotates my tray (forward, back). I then have to try to recover it, usually dying in the thick of combat because of it.

Is there a way to keep the trays from flipping to another one?



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Originally Posted by Hyperstrike View Post
Is there a way to do this? I'm not always the most precise with my mousing and sometimes it's faster to manually click stuff. Yet, every now and again, it rotates my tray (forward, back). I then have to try to recover it, usually dying in the thick of combat because of it.

Is there a way to keep the trays from flipping to another one?
While there isn't a way to stop it at this point, there is a way to minimize the risk. Don't put anything you are going to click often in the number one slot. Put a toggle there. In my case, I put Build Up / Aim / Snipe on tray one, a toggle on tray two, and self destruct on tray three. I almost neveer flip trays unintentionally.


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If it helps any, I think there's a command that'll move you back to your main bar - something like ALT+1 or CTRL+1? I'm sure someone can clarify.

Either way, when you accidentally click the wrong spot, instead of panicking and trying to click backward, you can just mash that command. That way you only have to learn to use the keyboard for a single command instead of retraining yourself to play the whole game with it.

Also, not that I'm a logitech fanboy, but their G15 gaming pad works wonders for me when I'm playing this game. Too many buttons to easily bind is a common complaint, and the extra buttons help a lot. A Belkin Nostromo n52 is another great left-hand kinda-keyboard thing, I used one until I wore it out.


 

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+ and - adjust your primary tray, which is what you're probably thinking about. You can't programatically control any of the other tray's.

Alt and Control + number (by default) activate a power in the respective tray+position combination.


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Don't put anything you are going to click often in the number one slot.
THIS.

I used to have this issue on my older computer, so I got used to putting Hasten (on Auto), Toggles, Rest, or other seldom-clicked powers into the positions next to the arrows, so I wouldn't have to worry about ever accidentally "flipping" to another row.


 

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I had a problem of accidently moving the number of my active tray by hitting the minus key, which is right next to the 0 key I was really aiming for. If fixed the problem by going into the keymapping area of options, finding the command in trays that had the minus key as it's command, and then changing it to something I wouldn't hit on accident, like f11 or something. Worked great!


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