Hotkeys for Mac

Discussion in 'Support!' started by vapidvenom, March 26, 2014.

  1. vapidvenom

    vapidvenom New Member

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    Ok, I'm a total noob. But I need some help here.

    When I went to Keyboard settings, I saw that many shortcuts were like this: ctrl+w or ctrl+d.
    Now in a Mac, there is no 'ctrl' button but there is Command. I tried to change it, but nothing showed up in the box when I pressed Command+w.

    I played a game against AI and these hotkeys weren't functioning.
    Any solution?
  2. SXX

    SXX Post Master General

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    Settings of keyboard shortcuts don't detect buttons pressed. You have to manually type them into field.
  3. cola_colin

    cola_colin Moderator Alumni

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    If you want to bind a key you need to type the name. So even if you had ctrl you had to type the word "ctrl" or "f1". I am not quite sure about macs, but maybe it actually accepts command as ctrl? Did you test that? Otherwise try to type in command+w
  4. vapidvenom

    vapidvenom New Member

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    Ohh well. You were right. It doesn't accept ctrl as Command, but when I typed command+w and tested that in the game, it worked!
  5. vapidvenom

    vapidvenom New Member

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    The same way hotkeys like 'command+shift+w' should also work, right?

    Off-topic question but I see 'Planetary Moderator' below your Uber ID and 'Planetary Vanguard' below SXX 's Uber ID. Care to explain what that is?
  6. SXX

    SXX Post Master General

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    @cola_colin is moderator on this forum so for example he can move topics about tech problems in "Gamma Issues & Bugs" sub-forum and sometimes remove some inappropriate content. Though I don't think there is much other moderator work on this forum.

    You can find more details in first newsletter there:
    https://forums.uberent.com/threads/the-vanguard-newsletter-issue-1.54922/
  7. SXX

    SXX Post Master General

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    Really want to help you, but have no idea how hotkeys in PA work on Mac. Anyway I suppose it's might be not "command", but "cmd" or might be both will work.
  8. DeathByDenim

    DeathByDenim Post Master General

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    I think you misread:
    :)

    Anyway, back to vapidvenom:
    Yeah, 'command+shift+w' should work. The keyhandling is based on the Mousetrap library for JavaScript, so for a list of all of the available keys you can look at their website. (See "Supported keys")
  9. vapidvenom

    vapidvenom New Member

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    Anyway, back to vapidvenom:
    Yeah, 'command+shift+w' should work. The keyhandling is based on the Mousetrap library for JavaScript, so for a list of all of the available keys you can look at their website. (See "Supported keys")[/quote]

    Oh thanks. Never knew it was based on Java.
  10. Geers

    Geers Post Master General

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    Can we bind the command key to "select commander" because that would be the most logical bind ever?
    vapidvenom likes this.
  11. DeathByDenim

    DeathByDenim Post Master General

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    <Pendantic mode>JavaScript</Pendantic mode>
    They are quite different. :)

    But yeah, the entire UI is written in JavaScript. That makes it so nice to mod.
  12. vapidvenom

    vapidvenom New Member

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    Yes, I agree, that is the most logical bind. Since there is no restriction on customisation of hotkeys, it is entirely up to you which key for which action.

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