Right click menu jank (FIXED IN BETA CLIENT!) | Star Sonata | Page 1

low condor Jul 30, 2025, 12:13 AM

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I have finally realized why after years of playing this game why the right click menu seems inconsistent at times and overall feels janky and I'm curious if it's something that can be fixed if possible.

In short, if you right click anything in your inventory window and move your mouse a bit to the left after right clicking, the UI menu immediately closes. From my very non scientific testing, if you right click and move the cursor to the right, it works fine and doesn't close, but moving specifically to the left will always close the UI menu. I suspect this is due to the shape of the menu item stopping immediately to the left of the UI box that appears.

I've attached a video demonstrating the effect.

Sorry for this really dumb thing.

vocal mesa Jul 30, 2025, 12:14 AM

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hmm.

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That's interesting.

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My pc doesn't do that.

low condor Jul 30, 2025, 12:15 AM

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I should point out, I said when you move mouse to the left, but really it's just when the mouse travels off the menu pop up at all within a set amount of time(I think)

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i.e. it happens when I move the mouse up as well

vocal mesa Jul 30, 2025, 12:16 AM

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So its neither move to the left or the right

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or up

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Right click down and right click up

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You're mouse must have some delay on mouse up

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I have to really speedily click adn then drag and let go

low condor Jul 30, 2025, 12:17 AM

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Down the issue never happens because the mouse travels within the pop up window so it usually stays up unless you yeet the mouse across the screen super fast. Lol

vocal mesa Jul 30, 2025, 12:17 AM

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Yeah - so if mouse up occurs outside of the box - it closes

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Any direction

low condor Jul 30, 2025, 12:17 AM

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Yeah, right click and mouse moves outside the UI pop up, it just closes.

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If mouse is stationary when right click, the UI stays opened. Even if you move it fast to any direction away from the UI. It only happens on initial opening of the menu

vocal mesa Jul 30, 2025, 12:18 AM

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In windows - right click context men uonly occurs on mouse up.

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not mouse down

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I'm not sure if there's a technical reason for that in SS but should be easy to play with

low condor Jul 30, 2025, 12:22 AM

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If it's something that can be messed with I would try seeing if there's something that happens when the UI is clicked while the mouse is moving at all. Perhaps there is some kind of mechanism that is checking for pointer location to decide if the UI should just close because your mouse is not within a certain region of the UI.

Unsure if it's related but if you right click and hold, then move the mouse outside the UI like really far the UI just closes.

vocal mesa Jul 30, 2025, 12:22 AM

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Yeah that's where - I would likely just move it to mouse up to reflect windows

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Unless there's a technical problem with that

full eagle Jul 30, 2025, 12:22 AM

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I run into this all the time, theres something hardwarey going on between windows and SS. It doesnt always happen for other people either.

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I tried to troubleshoot it a little with jey once

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Didnt get anywhere

vocal mesa Jul 30, 2025, 12:23 AM

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Its mouse down vs up 😛

low condor Jul 30, 2025, 12:23 AM

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You keep mentioning mouse down and up and my smooth brain can't figure out what you mean. Lol do you mean direction of travel or the clicking itself?

vocal mesa Jul 30, 2025, 12:23 AM

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We had similar screwy stuff with the trade bot orders stuff with clicks leaking through in the past

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Okay so there's two motions

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Mouse down is when you click (like click and drag)

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mouse up is when you release

low condor Jul 30, 2025, 12:24 AM

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Ahh okay that makes sense

vocal mesa Jul 30, 2025, 12:24 AM

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In windows - context menu only appears on release

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In SS its on down - regardless of releasing

low condor Jul 30, 2025, 12:24 AM

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That makes... so much more sense now. Thank you for explaining.

vocal mesa Jul 30, 2025, 12:24 AM

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Yeah sorry - tech language stuff

full eagle Jul 30, 2025, 12:24 AM

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https://youtu.be/kpk2tdsPh0A?si=vOEZOYntqK73Q9D_ important educational content on the subject

YouTube

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I collect the star Watch for Rolling Rocks in Hazy Maze Cave using 0.5 A presses. The A press is to perform AB kicks on the rising elevators. Without doing these kicks, Mario would go through the elevator, and so there'd be no way to navigate out of t...

▶ Play video

low condor Jul 30, 2025, 12:25 AM

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full eagle https://youtu.be/kpk2tdsPh0A?si=vOEZOYntqK73Q9D_ important educational content o...

omg I love this guys content so much. I watch all of his videos. lmao

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he is the goomba master

vocal mesa Jul 30, 2025, 12:25 AM

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this is totally relevant lol

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But in SS there is no hold really other then click and drag in the entire game

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At least in terms of the MOUSE

full eagle Jul 30, 2025, 12:26 AM

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See its the same concept

low condor Jul 30, 2025, 12:26 AM

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Yeah makes perfect sense now. idk why it was so hard for me to understand in this context. Lol

vocal mesa Jul 30, 2025, 12:26 AM

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Nah - its totally understandable

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I'll workshop this tonight after kids are out.

low condor Jul 30, 2025, 12:27 AM

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I appreciate both of you for taking the time to discuss.

vocal mesa Jul 30, 2025, 12:29 AM

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now where the heck is the code...

low condor Jul 30, 2025, 12:33 AM

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Under a bunch of cobwebs perhaps?

vocal mesa Jul 30, 2025, 12:38 AM

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I think I found it. Testing now

low condor Jul 30, 2025, 12:39 AM

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Legend

vocal mesa Jul 30, 2025, 12:50 AM

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Looks to have solved it

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funny enough - I already made the context menu on the map do it on up

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hmmm

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yeah I can't find any issues so I'll commit this for the next major patch

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Thanks for the raise - little stuff like this really helps the game feel polished and natural. You're awesome @low condor

low condor Jul 30, 2025, 1:06 AM

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vocal mesa Thanks for the raise - little stuff like this really helps the game feel polishe...

NO you and the team are awesome. I appreciate all that you all do keeping the game great. I cannot thank you enough!

full eagle Jul 30, 2025, 1:36 AM

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vocal mesa yeah I can't find any issues so I'll commit this for the next major patch

Did you commit this? I can have the beta compiled and we can check it out for us that get the issue more often

vocal mesa Jul 30, 2025, 1:37 AM

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Yep committed. Feel free. I don't think it's too urgent but maybe this small thing will make folks happy

full eagle Jul 30, 2025, 1:37 AM

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we can at least get you feedback sooner !

vocal mesa Jul 30, 2025, 1:37 AM

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I ain't going to complain

full eagle Jul 30, 2025, 2:24 AM

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@low condor manually update ur beta client, version 420.20

low condor Jul 30, 2025, 2:37 AM

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I'm sorry if I'm just missing it. How do I obtain the beta client?

vocal mesa Jul 30, 2025, 2:38 AM

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It's on website and seperate install

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One sec

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https://www.starsonata.com/beta-client-download/

Beta Client - Star Sonata

low condor Jul 30, 2025, 2:38 AM

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epic

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Installed and patching now

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If you push updates to the beta client, to get the most recent one I just run patchbot yeah?

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Never installed the beta client before. Very exciting stuff

full eagle Jul 30, 2025, 2:43 AM

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low condor If you push updates to the beta client, to get the most recent one I just run pa...

correct

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and almost always, that beta client is okay to run on the normal server

low condor Jul 30, 2025, 2:43 AM

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Almost always

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Till one day, it isn't

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oh my god

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it's as smooth as butter

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@vocal mesa you madlad you've done it. This fixes the issue entirely

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This is amazing

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I never thought I would be excited about right clicking some menus lmao

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Seriously

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idk why it just feels so smooth now

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I mean

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I don't really know how often I was having to right click something multiple times to get the menu to stay opened because I'm apparently a spastic

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but apparently it was quite often. This resolved it entirely.

vocal mesa Jul 30, 2025, 2:51 AM

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Yeah I like making expected UX experiences. Let me know if you notice anything else

low condor Jul 30, 2025, 2:51 AM

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Will do. I seriously cannot thank you enough.

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Actually I think this smoothness has made me notice something. And I'm not complaining here, but when right clicking an item, for a brief second while the context menu loads in, the item description opens and closes very quickly. I can create a new thread for that if you'd like. I hope this video showcases the issue. It's so brief that the video doesn't always show the issue. Perhaps it's the frame rate, the pop up is very very very brief.

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Yeah the video definitely doesn't show all the detail. I think it's recording too slowly. Each object you right click shows it's description and closes immediately after. The first two items I left clicked to give an idea where the pop up would be, then every time I right click after it shows the item description. Kinda interesting the video doesn't show it every time.

vocal mesa Jul 30, 2025, 2:59 AM

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I noticed the same thing but I checked live

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it does the same thing

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on live it just last half second longer

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due to the up

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I noted maybe not to make it poof for right click maybe

low condor Jul 30, 2025, 3:10 AM

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That would be slick. It already feels just so much nicer being able to right click and just like... trust that the menu will be there. I know it sounds silly. Lol once again thank you so much

full eagle Jul 30, 2025, 3:54 AM

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low condor <@335903813485461504> you madlad you've done it. This fixes the issue entirely

damnn yeah this is smooth as hell

low condor Jul 30, 2025, 3:59 AM

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Right click menu jank (FIXED IN BETA CLIENT!)

topaz wedge Jul 30, 2025, 5:12 AM

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how is ur gui black

full eagle Jul 30, 2025, 5:19 AM

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topaz wedge how is ur gui black

it's a client mod

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there were some people made posted on the old forums that people still have and upkeep as we have updates

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you can see if anyone posted some in #1350241316319268875

#Right click menu jank (FIXED IN BETA CLIENT!)