Backspace hotkey toggling smoothscroll whilst chatting

[LEDZ]

This never used to happen, I'm wondering if it's a bug and affecting everyone or if it's just me and some weird widget I have.
Thanks guys.

[Silentwings]

It's an engine bug (http://springrts.com/mantis/view.php?id=4578).

If you are using BA, and you have the "Building Hotkeys" widget enabled (BAs internal version, not some local version) then it shouldn't happen, since that widget contains hotfixes for 98.0 key related bugs.

[Jools]

What if he's not using BA?

[Silentwings]

Since I don't maintain any other games, in that case (as the empty space in my post might indicate) I have no idea.

(P.S. LEDZ is a long time BA player...)

[Jools]

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[abma]

By the way, it would be helpful if spring would still come with an empty uikeys.txt at least, it would make it easier to make edits such as these.

/unbindall is your friend

[Jools]

Yes, but it's mostly the thing that people are afraid of creating a file when it doesn't exist, and are not sure where to create it.

[abma]

@Jools
are you asking as user or as gamedev?

as gamedev you can create a lua widget which creates this file and also call /unbindall.

[Jools]

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[abma]

These are all issues that are more related to the local keyboard that to the game. As gamedev I don't have more information about the problem than enginedevs, so I don't think that the gamedev is the right subsidiarity in this problem.

yes, its a problem, that keyboard layouts are so different. best solution seems to be to let users configure it, if they have a "non default" keyboard.
to simplify configuring keys we need some gui which imo could be done with a widget which should/could be done by a gamedev.
imo springsettings failed doing it, it never worked for me. also having an external program leads to possible a lot more bugs than having it integrated into the engine.

[Jools]

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[abma]

Either a widget or something integrated into the menu when you start spring by double-clicking spring.exe. Or would that be more complicated?

afaik plan is to replace the "default menu" with luaintro, jk knows maybe more :)

so, a widget could be possible used there too, when this change is done. afaik the keyhandling in the menu works slightly different than ingame, so doing this "ingame" should be prefered.

[LEDZ]

I am a long time player and have dabbled with lua widgets/gadgets but because I keep coming and going I forget how to do some simple things (like this).
Thank you guys.