Escape to close open windows - IDEAS FOR RYZOM

#1 Added by Aeva 1 decade ago [en]

Hi.

Do you think being able to use escape to close open windows (Vendor or inventory for example) would be a good idea?

Just a thought :)

Aeva

#2 Added by Talkirc 1 decade ago [en]

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Yes, I do agree.

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#3 Added by Aeva 1 decade ago [en]

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Oh, and could I add to that....escape to de-select a target?

Avea

#4 Added by Bitttymacod 1 decade ago [en]

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mmm... ESC is already used to exit from a chat window. I'm not sure making a single key do more than one thing is necessarily a good idea. Since there is already a "deselect target" (actually "target nothing") action, I suspect you can assign it to ESC, but I don't know what that would do to the chat-window functionality.

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#5 Added by Aeva 1 decade ago [en]

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Good point.

When you say, target nothing, do you mean click off the target? I have tried that and it does not deselect my current target.

#6 Added by Bitttymacod 1 decade ago [en]

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The default key is F12 and it simply means that you are targetting nothing. It is labeled No Target in the Action keys section

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#7 Added by Talkirc 1 decade ago [en]

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i forgot about the chat exit, ur right, as for no target, f12 works good, bitty's right, more then one action for one key can't be done easy, perhaps re-mapping ur keys, but there needs to be a "key" for "exit window" perhaps not esc, but something would help.

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#8 Added by Canya 1 decade ago [en]

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One could create a macro and assign it to the key for multiple actions.

#9 Added by Aeva 1 decade ago [en]

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Excellent, thank you. I will look into making a macro. :)

Aeva x

#10 Added by Arfur 1 decade ago [en]

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F12 on a mac turns the sound up lol

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#11 Added by Muffin 1 decade ago [en]

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Esc for closing/exiting things
Shift/Ctrl/Alt + Esc for "/tar " (space is intentional)

#12 Added by Irfidel 1 decade ago [en]

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Aeva, for the inventory, and other character related windows, the key that opens it up, also closes it down. So I imho, we don't need another key to close such windows. Press "k" to get a list of most of your key assignments.

Closing a vendor window is a different matter. <esc> already closes a couple of other special windows, such as material or action info windows. So, Bitty, in some cases we already have the double-meaning for keys. <esc> does close windows _and_ exits chats if the cursor is active in a chat.

The point is that it's okay to have different behaviour of some keys depending on the context. Another example is <enter>. The return/enter key acknowledges and sends a chat message, but if the chat message is empty, the effect is to exit the chat as well.

I'm undecided on having <esc> also close an open vendor window. It doesn't make much difference to me.