hover attack toggle

[bobthedinosaur]

2 questions

would it be possible to add a toggle feature to aircraft to switch its mode from hover attack and canstrafe to normal mode, or will it effect all of the units from the same fbi?

and 2) is it possible to add a hot key for a specific mod so it will override the user's preference?

[KDR_11k]

"hoverattack" is a completely different movetype (TAAirMoveType vs AirMoveType), that can't be toggled.

[Argh]

Yeah, the only way to do it would be a unit swap, imo.

[bobthedinosaur]

well crap... how about the override of a user's hotkey with a mod specific lua cmd hotkey?

[Argh]

how about the override of a user's hotkey with a mod specific lua cmd hotkey?

Sure, that's easy:

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local onState
function myNiftyCommand()
	if onState == true then onState = false else onState = true end
end

function widget:Initialize()
  onState = true
  widgetHandler:AddAction("myNiftyCommand", myNiftyCommand)
  Spring.SendCommands({"unbind f9 showhealthbars"})
  Spring.SendCommands({"bind f9 luaui myNiftyCommand"})
end

function widget:Shutdown()
	widgetHandler:RemoveAction("myNiftyCommand", myNiftyCommand)
	Spring.SendCommands({"unbind f9 luaui myNiftyCommand"})
	Spring.SendCommands({"bind f9 showhealthbars"})
end

There ya go, simple example. You're basically just assigning a function call to a hotkey- that myNiftyCommand could do anything.

[bobthedinosaur]

awesome. and that just goes into the luaui/widgets dir?

[Argh]

Er, yes, or as a Gadget, if you're going to do a unit-swap.

[KDR_11k]

For gadgets it'd look different, you'd just bind the keys (I think that only works in widgets) and the action is created as part of your CmdDesc.

[jK]

Since moduictrl it should work in (unsynced) gadgets too (just use Spring.SendCommands("bind f9 luarules myNiftyCommand")).
Afaik the actionhandler even supports to catch keypresses w/o the command binding, but I am too lazy to find out how to do that >_<

[bobthedinosaur]

well i cant seem to make it work, whether it is in the wrong directory or the wrong lua cmd