setting markers

[ikaros]

this is not a bug.

i just can figure out how to set markers in game and draw things on map.

i found this paper: https://spring.clan-sy.com/svn/spring/trunk/README.html (sorry im not allowed to post hyperlinks as a new user here :) )

and it says:
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Draw stuff in map that you and allies can see (mouse1=lines, mouse2=erase, mouse3=marker,doubleclick=named marker)

this just doesnt work for me.. is this a problem with the german keyboard layout i use?

[tombom]

Try \. \+double click makes a text mark.

Yeah, foreign keyboards don't really work too great for some reason.

[ikaros]

this doesnt work for me too.

i tried switching the keyboard layout to us american and i could is the key left to 1 to set markes propperly.. i wonder if any german could post how he is setting markes in game please.

[BaNa]

this doesnt work for me too.

i tried switching the keyboard layout to us american and i could is the key left to 1 to set markes propperly.. i wonder if any german could post how he is setting markes in game please.

is what i do too. set the keyboard to US ingame.

[trepan]

Read through the default uikeys.txt file, it should have enough information
to tell you how to setup your own keybinding. A handy in-game feature is
the /keydebug command, it will display keycodes / symbols / bindings for
keys that you press / release.

[Auswaschbar]

I did the following:
Edit file uikeys.txt (its in ~/.spring) and add the line:

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bind              Any+<  drawinmap

Then you can set markers while holding the "<" button and clicking somewhere. Of course you don't have to use "<".

[ikaros]

thx for the hints guys.

i've already had a look at the uikeys.txt.. i even tried to configure it the proper way.

it didnt do anything.

so now i tried ingame:
bind Any+< drawinmap
and this worked.

now my last question is why doesnt spring autoload the uikeys.txt?

i didnt find any doc on this.

i even have the file in ~/.spring/ and /usr/share/spring/ too.

[Auswaschbar]

Did you tried the entry in both files? If it works only in one file and the other one is ignored by the engine, then please fill a bugreport.

[trepan]

uikeys.txt only gets loaded once during initialization, that would not be a bug.

[ikaros]

ok this is really strange..

i have exactly this command in BOTH uikeys.txt files:
bind Any+< drawinmap

i first thought spring didnt load any of those files.
but i just used /keydebug and pressed <,
spring tells me something like
drawinmapp "drawinmapp"

the strange thing is the double p at the end. i checked uikeys.txt again but its correct there.

[ikaros]

ok.. got it fixed.

all i did was moving the command from the end of file to another line. now it works.. seems spring concats some kind of end of file codes to the command lol.

[KDR_11k]

The button left to the 1 works for me even with the German layout.

[AF]

It varies from machine to machine.

For example the |\ key next to the z and the elft shift key works on UK keyboard, but some configurations they dont, when i ran ubuntu I had to use the ~# key next to my return key.