Selection cycling keys and backward cycling

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Selection cycling keys and backward cycling

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How you reverse-cycle options with the keys isn't entirely consistent.
Advanced space compass: shift+key to cycle backward.
Primable equipment: shift+key to cycle forward, ctrl+shift+key to cycle backward.
MFDs: ctrl+key to cycle current MFD backward, ctrl+shift+key to cycle MFDs backward.
Primable equipment secondary mode: no way to cycle backward.
IFF scanner: no way to cycle backward.

For consistency, and to make some of the controls more versatile, I'd suggest making all "cycle" type keys accept Ctrl as a modifier for reverse cycling direction. Shift+key as additional reverse cycle method for the compass can be retained for legacy.
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Re: Selection cycling keys and backward cycling

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All of which can be configured in 1.91 with the new keyboard configuration screen. :D
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Re: Selection cycling keys and backward cycling

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phkb wrote: Thu Jul 03, 2025 10:00 pm
All of which can be configured in 1.91 with the new keyboard configuration screen. :D
Well, true, but it'll be less work for the user if the layout is "logical" right from the start.
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