Re: [Adonthell-devel] GUI question

[James Nash]

Can we have multiple keys / buttons point to the same action? If so perhaps we 
could reserve the arrow keys (and I suppose D-pad on a controller) to always do 
directions and not be re-configurable. That way, even if players have also 
assigned other buttons to duplicate the arrow keys (e.g. WSAD) we can override 
that in special cases like a text field and use the letter keys for typing. 
Since the arrow keys are reserved they're still able to navigate around the 
text field then.

        - James



On 15 Oct 2010, at 21:50, Kai Sterker wrote:

> On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 10:22 PM, Rian Shelley <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
>> That was my intention when i wrote the code. I specifically designed
>> it so that you could feed the base object the keystrokes. I never
>> quite got to wondering what to do with the text fields because i
>> figured they would be rare in the actual game play.
> 
> I guess so. The one that springs to mind is the character name, and
> that could be set to a default, as was the case with Waste's Edge.
> Other instances might be naming of save games, annotations on a map or
> in a log book. None of which are really critical for gameplay, so we
> may not have to worry much about people without keyboard.
> 
> 
>> It would probably be fairly easy to create a new gui object that has a
>> button for every letter in the alphabet, and then feeding those
>> characters to whatever child object you want. The only gotcha would be
>> generating it for an arbitrary charset.
> 
> Might be enough to start with ASCII. But you'd need some way to
> trigger it only when needed, maybe a flag in the configuration / game
> options.
> 
> 
> But yeah, I guess the input for the GUI needs to stay the way it is
> right now. I can add gamepad support (and possibly use the control
> event configuration to properly map the directional buttons and the
> space and escape actions). But there's no point in allowing to remap
> the keyboard controls for controlling the GUI.
> 
> Kai
> 
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