Changelog

0.1.21 — 2026-10-13

Changes since the published 0.1.20 package:

Controls and emotes

• Shift now works while holding the left trigger and switches off on release or when PadType closes, instead of toggling.
• Added a D-pad cursor circle with clickable arrow icons. Left/right moves by complete characters, including UTF-8 characters; up/down moves between explicit text lines or to the start/end of single-line fields. Hiding the circle keeps controller cursor movement available.
• Added optional Combat Commands and Interaction Emotes pages containing 26 original-era animated, voiced emotes: 11 combat and 15 interaction choices. Emote pages are off by default.
• Emote wedges show two choices: Y selects the upper row and A the lower row. Clicking an emote also works. The emote executes immediately and closes PadType, without submitting or replacing any draft text. B/X and empty slots do nothing on these pages.
• Renamed the right-trigger command circle to Channel; its say, party, raid, and reply shortcuts are unchanged.

Settings

• Added separate Colored/Black icon choices for wedge/Channel buttons and center buttons.
• Added independent visibility settings for the D-pad circle, header (including the title), footer, and emote pages. Disabled emote pages are removed from LB/RB navigation; disabling them while viewing one returns to Letters.
• Extended size settings from 70–130% to 70–200%, in 10% steps.
• Added Reset to defaults, selectable with the D-pad and activated with A or a mouse click. Removed the mouse-only Back to keyboard button; Start or B still returns to typing.
• New defaults: Size 100%, Bronze background, Black button icons, Colored center icons, D-pad circle On, Header On, Footer On, and Emote pages Off.
• Existing saved choices are preserved. Use Reset to defaults to adopt the new defaults on an existing installation.

Appearance and positioning

• Redesigned the wheel with textured surfaces, a continuous beveled gold rim, gold spokes, rim accents, and amber selection highlights.
• Added smooth black button icons and smoothed the colored icons, with stronger gold borders and transparent exteriors. Page indicators now use black icons for inactive pages and a yellow icon for the active page.
• Pressing a wedge character briefly flashes only that button to the opposite icon style, then restores the selected style.
• Enlarged and tightened the wedge buttons. The compact D-pad and Channel circles use matching button sizes and sit against the wheel edge.
• Narrowed the header/footer and brought footer hints closer together. Corrected the frame width so invisible side margins no longer limit movement toward screen edges.

Package and compatibility

• Excluded development previews and backup textures from the release archive.
• Still targets WoW Forever Beta, client 1.60.1 / Interface 16001.
• Auction-house text fields remain disabled as a workaround for the native gamepad protected-action error; this release does not fix that underlying issue.
• Movement-stick setting changes remain disabled, so movement may remain active while typing. Native EditBox insertion through securecallfunction remains experimental.

0.1.20 — 2026-10-12

Initial publication package of the current prototype.

• Radial gamepad keyboard with letters, numbers, symbols, and Shift.
• Quick chat commands for say, party, raid, and reply.
• Adjustable size and background color saved across reloads.
• Right-stick positioning and a line connecting the keyboard to the focused field.
• Segmented character wedges, button icons, and fading header/footer styling.

Known limitations:

• Targets WoW Forever Beta, client 1.60.1 / Interface 16001.
• Auction-house text fields are excluded because of a native gamepad protected-action error.
• Movement-stick setting changes are disabled; movement may remain active while typing.
• Native EditBox insertion through securecallfunction is experimental.