Hotkeys for buildings

michelin · Post by **michelin** » 16 Apr 2006, 02:40

Hey, in the original TA interface it was possible to press , and . to units that a contrusction unit or lab could build. Also, q, w, e, r, f, v corresponded to the 6 units that were available on that page. Would it be possible to implement something like this in Spring? This is the feature that I miss most about OTA.

altaric · Post by **altaric** » 16 Apr 2006, 09:30

that would be handy :)
as well as a shortcut to change the page

Gnomre · Post by **Gnomre** » 16 Apr 2006, 10:05

He mentioned that, period and comma did that in TA.

The major problem here is that Spring isn't locked to six buildpics per page like TA...

Zenka · Post by **Zenka** » 16 Apr 2006, 10:40

This is suggested a while ago, when jouninkomiko was still working on the 'new GUI' also known as the Bermuda GUI.
the idea then was that there are short cuts for fixed units such as:
ctrl+m for Metal extractor
ctrl+s for Solar
ctrl+k for K-bot lab
ctrl+a for metal mAker
maybe shift + ctrl + K for Adv K-bot lab
and shift + ctrl + V for adv Vehecle lab
etc. etc.

There was a suggestion/feature list for Bermuda GUI back then.
But I cannot find it anymore

Soulless1 · Post by **Soulless1** » 16 Apr 2006, 15:36

The other thing is, could it be made that when you select a unit group that includes a factory, the factory itself would only be selected if you press, say, shift-(groupnumber) or something - or if it's the only unit left in the group?

Sometimes you don't want to change your rally point when you move a unit, and having a factory selected confuses certain orders (especially attack) sometimes. Would be nice to be able to have units automatically added to a group without having to worry about changing the factory's rally point when moving the unit. :)

PS. Unless that's already possible lol. If it is, how do I do it? Could I sort something in the selection editor?

EDIT: well I created a shortcut that will simply take your current selection and remove all buildings from it, and another one that will select only the buildings. That's okay I suppose...

Gnomre · Post by **Gnomre** » 16 Apr 2006, 23:04

Zenka: I'd personally like to have that control back in the hands of modders (with players still able to design their own shortcuts like Soulless just did, naturally). In OTA the "Category" FBI tag contained a list of all the CTRL+[whatever] buttons a unit could be selected with... so if I wanted to do CTRL+J for jedi I would just add "CTRL_J" to the list in its FBI, and that was that.

Though, I suppose if we could define it mod-side through the new GUI, it wouldn't matter much. The point is, I don't want things like "ctrl+k for kbot lab" hardcoded into the engine.

mongus · Post by **mongus** » 17 Apr 2006, 04:59

You have never heard of the "command line" script right?

basicalle, it displays a command line.

You type there a list of commands in the form of.

m, kl, ra, dt, dt, s, llt.

this is

m= metal extractor (depended on selected unit tech tree)
kl=kbot lab
ra=radar, dt=dragon teeth, s=solar..

this all are "aliases" defined in a text file.

Some general calls can be done, as e (for energy producer).

This will result in a search in the current unit buildtree for energy producing units/struct and select one to be built.
This general calls work sort of ntai's ones.

well once you press enter again, the builder gets feed with the queue, one by one. and you only place the buildings.

Zenka · Post by **Zenka** » 17 Apr 2006, 10:48

^k, why is this posted in small?
But having to open an comamnd line and close it again, kinda misses the point.

Gnope perfectly pointed out, the shortcuts need to be user defined (or at least mod defined).

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Hotkeys for buildings

Hotkeys for buildings