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How to make console toggle work again?

by Glen C · in Torque Game Builder · 07/13/2007 (4:42 am) · 5 replies

Is there something I can do to make the tilde key close the console again in the released 1.5? Prior to now, one press to open console, one press to close, all was slick. Now, the close keypress is showing up in the console line and everytime I have to stop and reach for the mouse, I'm losing my zen. I can't see any change in the script files to account for the change in behavior.

Will I need to uncondition what after years is reflex?
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Torque 3D Owner Marc 'Dreamora' Schaerer
Gayasoft
#1
07/13/2007 (6:24 am)
You don't need to reach for the mouse. Ctrl + console key will close it again.

Torque Owner Neo Binedell
#2
07/13/2007 (5:25 pm)
You can curse me for that little nuisance, I submitted some changes that reworked the way input was processed so that focused controls got first look at keys as they are supposed to which had the side affect of overriding global keys like the tilde (~) used for the console. So we changed it to CTRL + ~ and that has the benefit that you can now type things like ~/path/etc in the console ;p

I suppose it will take a bit of getting used to but these changes will be rolled into all the other engines soon too and really is the Right Thing To Do tm.

Torque Owner Glen C
#3
07/13/2007 (6:49 pm)
Ah, Ctrl + console bind is wonderful! As long as there's still a keyboard shortcut, I think I'll cope fine.

Thankyou!

Torque Owner Dustin Sims
#4
07/13/2007 (7:04 pm)
Good Deal, I was wondering about this last night..

Torque Owner Adam Goodchild
#5
02/25/2008 (8:15 am)
Hey, i posted this in another thread but thi seems more appropriate. i am not able to load up the console using Ctrl + ~ on my laptop or just ~. any reason why?