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Communications log

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Please, how can I see incoming messages after they are received? I tried to use the " ' " key but nothing happened. I'm using the combat hud... Thanks for any help.
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It's the ` key - not ' - on my keyboard that's top left, with the ¬ symbol on it also.
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Right between the energy bomb and escape capsule keys. Yeah, that's a convenient place for it. :lol:
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Of course everything depends on your keyboard type, which depends on the country you're living in. :wink:
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Wildeblood wrote:
Right between the energy bomb and escape capsule keys. Yeah, that's a convenient place for it. :lol:
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Wildeblood wrote:
Right between the energy bomb and escape capsule keys. Yeah, that's a convenient place for it. :lol:
Yep :lol: But, not on the (european) mac, where the game was originally developed on. There it is at a very convenient and safe place at the lower left.
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Wildeblood wrote:
Right between the energy bomb and escape capsule keys. Yeah, that's a convenient place for it. :lol:

Well, I tried this key, but didn't work... I use a notebook sony vaio, vpc-f112hb, with windows and ubuntu. Oolite is in ubuntu here. My keyboard configuration only says "Português Brasil", it has the "/" with the "Q" key. The " ' " is well where you said, between the energi bomb and the escape capsule... but it does not work, when I press it, nothing happens.
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You could use [wiki]Keyconfig[/wiki] to write a new keyboard configuration. That way you could choose a communications key that is more convenient located on your keyboard.
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On my copy of the oolite reference sheet it says it's the ' ~ ' (which doesn't seem to render..it's the wavy line thing).
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Eric Walch wrote:
You could use [wiki]Keyconfig[/wiki] to write a new keyboard configuration. That way you could choose a communications key that is more convenient located on your keyboard.
That's got useful links.
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I'm looking forward to that. I do <shift>-\ every so often and expect it to work.
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Switch off HUD o Switches off the HUD.
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SandJ wrote:
Switch off HUD o Switches off the HUD.
needs to display a Comms message: "HUD turned off".
What good would that do? Think it through, SandJ. :D
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Wildeblood wrote:
SandJ wrote:
Switch off HUD o Switches off the HUD.
needs to display a Comms message: "HUD turned off".
What good would that do? Think it through, SandJ. :D
Are the comms messages part of the HuUD, then? :oops:

Well some sort of "The screen's gone blank 'cos you turned it off; press 'o' to get it back" message would help idiots like me.
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