Quake2: Is it possible to bind a command to a key release.
Jason Koloseike
Most bind statements attach a command to a key press.
Is it possible to bind a command to a key release?
What I would like to do is bind a zoom command to a
mouse button. Press it, I would zoom in; release it
I would zoom out.
Thank you for any help.
Jason Koloseike
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Alexander Höschele
as far as i know , make it work this way:
bind mouse2 +zoom
and have 2!!! aliases:
+zoom ......
-zoom ......
in this example the commands which were assigned to +zoom are executed
when you press 2nd mouse button and the commands associated with -zoom
are executed when zou release it; at least it works for me that way
hope this helps
Jason Koloseike schrieb:
Morten Wennevik
Jason Koloseike (Jason.K...@cognosnos.com) wrote:
: Most bind statements attach a command to a key press.
: Is it possible to bind a command to a key release?
Yes, with + and - you can assign actions to both press and release.
Bind a key to a command, and make a + and - alias for that commend.
If you want to use mousebutton 1, you would write
bind mouse1 "zoom
alias +zoom "whatever command it is, maybe fov 170"
alias -zoom "reset the values to default, fov 90"
the config files can't store aliases so you need to write them in a
textfile, for instance zoom.cfg, then exec zoom.cfg to load the aliases.
Good Luck!
Morten
Jason Koloseike
Thank you to everyone who replied.
On 20 Jan 1998 12:09:01 GMT, mp...@taxus.uib.no (Morten Wennevik)
wrote:
>Yes, with + and - you can assign actions to both press and release.
>Bind a key to a command, and make a + and - alias for that commend.
>
>If you want to use mousebutton 1, you would write
>bind mouse1 "zoom
>alias +zoom "whatever command it is, maybe fov 170"
>alias -zoom "reset the values to default, fov 90"
>the config files can't store aliases so you need to write them in a
>textfile, for instance zoom.cfg, then exec zoom.cfg to load the aliases.
>
It is possible to use the autoexec.cfg for alias and custom bingings.
This file is automatically exec'd by Quake and Quake2 upon startup.
Andreas Baus
Jason Koloseike (Jason.K...@cognosnos.com) wrote:
: Most bind statements attach a command to a key press.
: Is it possible to bind a command to a key release?
That's indeed possible... If you bind a command whose name starts with a
'+' to a key, then upon pressing that key, that alias will be executed,
and as soon as you release the key, the game will try to execute a command
with the same name, only with a '-' in place of the '+' (if that's a
little confusing, I'll give an example below)
: What I would like to do is bind a zoom command to a
: mouse button. Press it, I would zoom in; release it
: I would zoom out.
Nothing easier than that - here is the appropriate section from my
autoexec.cfg use:
--- CUT HERE ---
alias +zoom "fov 15; set hand 2; set sensitivity 2"
alias -zoom "fov 90; set hand 0; set sensitivity 8"
bind T +zoom
--- CUT HERE ---
What this does is the following: when I press T, the game executes the
'+zoom' alias, setting the fov to 15, reduces mouse sensitivity for
high-precision aiming, and (as a little extra gadget) sets 'handedness' to
'center' (because the offset from left/righthandedness makes exact aiming
a little bit difficult).
When I release T, the game automatically executes '-zoom' to set
everything back to normal.
This works with any pair of '+<alias>' and '-<alias>'... very useful!
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Chris Butcher
On Mon, 19 Jan 1998, Jason Koloseike wrote:
> Most bind statements attach a command to a key press.
> Is it possible to bind a command to a key release?
>
If you bind a key to a command that starts with a +, then when you let
go of that key it fires the corresponding - command.
e.g. bind w +forward
executes +forward when you press w, and -forward when you release it.
So, you can do something like this:
alias +myzoom echo "Zoom in"
alias -myzoom echo "Zoom out"
bind z +myzoom
Is that what you're looking for?
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