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binding console

Postby a.k47 » Wed Dec 25, 2013 9:36 pm

Hey ho...

does anyone of you guys know how to bind the console on another button?
At the moment i have ^ as console-button. But i can't write in colours for example.

even /bind 1 toogleconsole does not really work.

Any idea?


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Re: binding console

Postby TheDoctor » Wed Dec 25, 2013 10:45 pm

On one hand, it is spelled toggleconsole, i.e.
bind 1 "toggleconsole"


On the other hand, just use Shift+Esc. It works on every OS.
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Re: binding console

Postby Biondo » Wed Dec 25, 2013 11:03 pm

Yes, Shift+Esc is keyboard/language/OS agnostic. AFAIK, it had been sculpted in stone for Quake3-based games.
Useless mnemonic aid: "SHI(f)T! I can't remember how to open console. I'm definitely asinine, no ESC-uses".

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Re: binding console

Postby Tequila » Wed Dec 25, 2013 11:25 pm

Hi and merry christmas all,

you can also play with cl_consoleKeys cvar. Check it in your q3config.cfg, it may look like:
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seta cl_consoleKeys "0xb2 ~ ` 0x7e 0x60"


this cvar is described like this in the source README:
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cl_consoleKeys            - space delimited list of key names or
                            characters that toggle the console

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Re: binding console

Postby a.k47 » Fri Dec 27, 2013 6:26 pm

Well,

i think i discribed my problem in a wrong way.
I knew how to open console, it works fine just with ^, as well as with shift and esc.

I want to change these things, so i can write in different colours and the console does not open and close all the time.

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Re: binding console

Postby Biondo » Fri Dec 27, 2013 7:16 pm

Now I understand your problem.
Have you tried editing the pertinent BIND in your q3config.cfg file (see here to locate the file)?

For instance, in my configuration file the BIND is the following line:

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bind ~ "toggleconsole"

Note that my BIND is not particularly comfortable with my Italian keyboard, but the BIND doesn't accept the many Italian special-character keys, and I don't want to occupy a common-letter key.
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Re: binding console

Postby Tequila » Fri Dec 27, 2013 7:37 pm

Check also your cl_consoleKeys cvar as one value can be the one for ^ on your keybord. Then, just remove this value.
Just to be clear, cl_consoleKeys is a list of keycode separated by spaces.
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Re: binding console

Postby Biondo » Fri Dec 27, 2013 8:44 pm

Tequila, between a BIND and the cl_consoleKeys, who takes the precedence? Do their values sum or every bind value must be also stated in cl_consoleKeys?
Moreover, which notation/encode does cl_consoleKeys follow for non ASCII characters? I mean: how do I convert a key like, for instance, 'ò' to a valid cl_consoleKeys' value?
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Re: binding console

Postby /dev/random » Sat Dec 28, 2013 3:46 pm

Biondo wrote:Moreover, which notation/encode does cl_consoleKeys follow for non ASCII characters? I mean: how do I convert a key like, for instance, 'ò' to a valid cl_consoleKeys' value?

I'd imagine you could just try binding this key to some other action via the menu first and see which character it prints/writes to the config.
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Re: binding console

Postby Biondo » Sat Dec 28, 2013 4:37 pm

Good idea, /dev/random.

I tested it via menu with the BUY command, since I'm not able to find a menu entry for opening/closing console. I then edited my q3config.cfg consequently.

OK, binding the key 'ù' to toggleconsole let me open the console, but not close it with the same key.

Adding the same bind also in cl_consoleKeys it works both directions.

Now my config file reads:

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bind WORLD_89 "toggleconsole"
set cl_consoleKeys "~ ` 0x7e 0x60 WORLD_89"


where WORLD_89 corresponds to the 'ù' key. The other binds declared in cl_consoleKeys (don't know to which key the codes '0x7e' and '0x60' correspond) probably still works, at least '~' works for sure.

Hope that a.k47 will be now able to solve his issue.
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Re: binding console

Postby Tequila » Mon Dec 30, 2013 1:22 pm

Hi,

/dev/random tips is the way I used. Sorry to have forgotten to tell about ;) and thank you /dev/random

In any way, I think other codes in cl_consoleKeys are just the code used for the expected key but for different languages. I mean, the expected key is the one at top left on the keyboard, just next to the one for "1". But since ioQ3 uses SDL to read the keycode, they had to work-around the keyboard language problem using a list covering as most as possible keycode.

Of course, in that way, you're free to remove from your cl_consoleKeys the values not matching your keyboard.
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