In-game keyboard configuration

[Nite Owl]

You may have to add it in yourself. See HIDDEN SETTINGS IN OOLITE for more information.

[Killer Wolf]

thanks for that, but it says it's dependent on the control key again, which as i said is not confortable for me.

[Cholmondely]

thanks for that, but it says it's dependent on the control key again, which as i said is not confortable for me.

So what if you move the movement keys to be closer to the control key - or swap the control key for - say - the Z or the X key?

Keyboard Issues

[Killer Wolf]

i don't see an entry for Ctrl on the keyconfig?

[phkb]

i don't see an entry for Ctrl on the keyconfig?

Not for the precision control at the moment. I steered away from allowing any of the mod keys (shift/ctrl/alt or cmd) to be used independently or allocated specific functions, purely from the complexity point of view. However, in thinking a bit more about it, it may be possible to allocate *additional* keys to those functions. So, we might not be able to eliminate Ctrl for the function, but we could potentially add an extra key to it, making it Ctrl OR another key.

Anyway, once this PR is in trunk, we can start examining some of these ideas in more detail.

[phkb]

Well, I hit the go button - the new code has been merged into trunk, so a new trunk package should be created shortly.

[another_commander]

Congratulations for the great work, well done! We have keyboard configuration in-game and the build on github went through successfully. Test release is out: https://github.com/OoliteProject/oolite ... tag/latest

How did it feel pressing the button for such a huge merge?

Edit: For the audience, just to give an idea of how big this was:
Files changed: 35
Lines changed: 19,891

[phkb]

How did it feel pressing the button for such a huge merge?

Scary!

[Cody]

Thankee Admiral. This will make my personal keyconfig.plist obsolete, right?

[phkb]

Yes, that’s right. But hopefully easy to re-enter.

[Killer Wolf]

Congratulations for the great work, well done! We have keyboard configuration in-game and the build on github went through successfully. Test release is out: https://github.com/OoliteProject/oolite ... tag/latest

How did it feel pressing the button for such a huge merge?

Edit: For the audience, just to give an idea of how big this was:
Files changed: 35
Lines changed: 19,891

i think that's bigger than Elite on the BBC Micro was

[tsoj]

Well, I hit the go button - the new code has been merged into trunk, so a new trunk package should be created shortly.

Great work! Works like a charm so far (on Linux with a German keyboard).

[Cody]

So far, so good. I can't deselect the fire laser key and leave it unassigned - is that correct?

[phkb]

Works like a charm so far (on Linux with a German keyboard).

That's great news! And you've probably mentioned this elsewhere, but what flavour of Linux are you running?

[phkb]

I can't deselect the fire laser key and leave it unassigned - is that correct?

Err... yeah! I hadn't thought of that scenario! Let me do some tests to see if there's a workaround.