My question and progress thread

[demagogue]

Something that custom would be something a mapper would want to do by script anyway, I think, just for a one-off trick.

 

It's good to keep brain-storming & thinking creatively though. You can try all sorts of crazy stuff on the local version. It's almost another game in itself.

[c0mputer-fr0d]

I was thinking towards if we ever get multiplayer working , you'd need to be able to use items really fast.

[SteveL]

Fair enough, and like you said you could tie the auto-use feature to the hotkeys instead of scrolling.

 

The keyboard actions are one of the harder puzzles in the code by the way. The keys push commands onto a buffer, and a completely separate part of the code reads the buffer, so there's no easy trail of functions to follow in the code. But I can dig out an old pm that spells out an example if you want to see it.

[c0mputer-fr0d]

I would love that because I was also trying to allow for multiple key presses for setting and using binds. So every little bit helps.

[SteveL]

Here's the example, how the F5 key causes a quick save. The other key bindings probably use the same method.

 

 

 

F5 gets interpreted by idKeyInput::ExecKeyBinding and mapped to "savegame quick" which it then pushes on to the command buffer.
idCmdSystemLocal::ExecuteCommandBuffer reads the command from the buffer and calls idCmdSystemLocal::ExecuteTokenizedString which uses its own mapping for "savegame quick" to call idSessionLocal::SaveGame

[SeriousToni]

Hey, just curious, are there any news on the server browser / multiplayer code side?

[c0mputer-fr0d]

nah not really I took a break. if you want to make the gui for the browser with me, I'd be down for that.