GreenAsJade Posted May 15, 2011 Share Posted May 15, 2011 I want "J" to be "cancel target" (specifically, I'm interested in cancelling covered arcs with j, FWIW... like CMx1). So I'm using the attached file. The menu in-game says that "cancel target" is J. When I click the button, targets are cancelled. But when I hit "J" they are not. Help?hotkeys.txt 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Other Means Posted May 15, 2011 Share Posted May 15, 2011 Cancel target is tied to the delete key AFAIK. I never changed it in the alternative keys anyway. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GreenAsJade Posted May 15, 2011 Author Share Posted May 15, 2011 I'm not sure what your point is? I'm reporting that the interface says that the Cancel Target is "J" when I use the appended file, but pressing J does nothing. This seems like a bug. Are you saying that "no matter what the GUI says, actually "cancel" is going to be stuck to be "delete""? I guess that will be good to know, though it would be kinda sucky? GaJ 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ClarkWGriswold Posted May 15, 2011 Share Posted May 15, 2011 AFAIK, "Cancel Target" isn't even listed in the hotkeys.txt. It's shows as "NOT USED". Make sure you've mapped the correct place in the hotkeys file. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GreenAsJade Posted May 15, 2011 Author Share Posted May 15, 2011 So ... you can see my file, right ... it's attached. I admit that I saw "not used" and I didn't know what "not used" meant. I deduced that this was the slot in the file for "Cancel Target" by it's position. I didn't even know that it was mapped to "delete", since this isn't stated in the file. The wierd thing is that the J that I put in the file does appear in the GUI!!! The GUI says that "J" is the key for this function... yet it doesn't work that way. Surely that's a bug... GaJ 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Erik Springelkamp Posted May 15, 2011 Share Posted May 15, 2011 The wierd thing is that the J that I put in the file does appear in the GUI!!! The GUI says that "J" is the key for this function... yet it doesn't work that way. Surely that's a bug... No, its a feature, and they did warn you that the entry is not used. Trying to use undocumented features is generally not supported, and when they fail it cannot be considered a bug. Technical information: the delete key is treated differently from a normal letter key, so the code handling this key is at another place than the code handling the hotkeys. It is related to the fact that you cannot map function keys. The fact that they reserved room for this key indicates that they would like to change this at some time, but the 'not used' comment means that it doesn't work today. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ClarkWGriswold Posted May 15, 2011 Share Posted May 15, 2011 I've mapped the "NOT USED" slot to "X" in the CMSF demo and it works just fine for cancelling target. Two of my buddies have the same setup and it works fine for them too. Not sure why it's not working for the OP, but it does work (at least under CMSF. I haven't gotten CMBN demo working well enough to test it). Maybe try mapping a different key and see what happens? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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