Spring RTS Engine

With this, we could do all kinds of really neat stuff. I was kind of surprised that this functionality didn't already exist.

Basically so we can define hotkeys and trigger a function in a script. Would be 100 kinds of neato.

Gadgets create commands. Unit scripts animate upon those commands. Widgets can capture keypresses and can issue commands.

But, rather than capturing a keypress, the widget should make an ActionHandler action and the user can bind a key to it.

That's fair. Was just pipedreaming

Yeah, you're supposed to use the proper layer structure. I've got that toggle.lua gadget that I use for more or less direct hooks into BOS. One problem with a theoretical key-to-BOS hook is that key presses only go into the local unsynced, to communicate with the synced state you need a command or lua message so that information can be transmitted over the network to all participating players.

It's ok, we have a solution in the works. He wants to hook it to a special attack so there's no need for a gadget to create a command. He'll create the unit and weapon and I'll throw together a small widget that issues an attack-ground on keypress.

Hell, there's already a fairly universal gadget in Kernel Panic IIRC, it's how the Bug's transformation and the Byte's mine launcher work.

tbh this seems shaky on the sync vs desync ground to me at first