Key modifiers, shift, alt etc?

[Tankbuster 1746]

I feel a bit dumb asking such an elementary question but I'm rather hoping I'm not the only one struggling with this.

 

The shift, ctrl and alt modifier keys seem to be largely ignored by the game. For example, I'd like to shift ctrl f1 to ctrl f12 for other application, but the game still interprets ctrl f1 as f1 and selects the first unit in my squad.

 

Is there a way of having the game being able to tell the difference between ctrl f1 and f1?

[jshock 513]

Apply locally via initPlayerLocal or other scirpt:

 

(findDisplay 46) displayAddEventHandler 
[
	"KeyDown",
	{
		params ["_ctrl", "_dikCode", "_shift", "_ctrlKey","_alt"];
 
		private _handled = false;
	 
		if (_ctrlKey && !_shift && !_alt && _dikCode == DIK_FI) then 
		{
			_handled = true;
		};
	 
		_handled;  
	}
];

 

[Tankbuster 1746]

Thanks, John, but that didn't work. Ctrl F1 still bought up the group command menu.

[jshock 513]

My bad, forgot to copy this over, lol, put the following above the original:

 

#define DIK_F1 0x3B

 

[Tankbuster 1746]

#define DIK_F1 0x3B
(findDisplay 46) displayAddEventHandler
[
	"KeyDown",
	{
		params ["_ctrl", "_dikCode", "_shift", "_ctrlKey"];

		private _handled = false;

		if (_ctrlKey && _dikCode == DIK_FI) then
		{
			_handled = true;
		};

		_handled;
	}
];

Like this?

[jshock 513]

Correct, see if that works, if it doesn't I'm not too sure why it wouldn't......but I've been out of the scripting game for some months now so....

[Tankbuster 1746]

That didn't work either. :( Thanks for trying though mate. Appreciated.

[Midnighters 152]

Looks like you guys already have the only way to override default engine behavior  

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Returning true in EH code will override default engine handling for keyboard events. 

Is this some sort of bug?