Keyboard controls for Record, Start and Stop

[MangoNacre]

Please add keyboard shortcuts of the Record, Start, and Stop buttons. They would save a lot of mouse movement, which my arthritic hands would so greatly appreciate! The less I have to move the mouse, the longer I can play.

For instance, I'm ready to train a nearby robot. I hit space, click on it, then have to move to the far left of the screen just to press Record, then move back to where I was and begin training.

[Leost]

You should look at AutoHotKey or similar apps. You could create for yourself a macro that would click on a chosen spot on the screen related to a certain key press. You can have it so the macro would only fire when a certain program is the window in focus, so it wouldn't affect other programs you use.

Not against the game adding this in, but you could do this today if you wanted.

[MangoNacre]

I'll take a look at that, thanks. I have AHK and use it in other games to sub key presses for clicks, but I didn't know you could lock it to a location. That would help a lot. I'm not even at evolution 3 and already considering putting the game down because of all the movements to those buttons. Which would be a shame because I'm really enjoying it otherwise.

[MangoNacre]

Thanks again, Leost. I have a script working and it does help a lot.

It would still like to see it added to the game, though, because the script fires whether the bot info pane is up or not. So it's clicking those buttons when I use those letters in bot names.

[Leost]

Since it sounds like the movement is the problem you could have the hotkey move the mouse for you and leave the clicking to you. Then if the mouse moves around a bit while naming a bot it won't really matter. You could maybe setup a bunch of hotkeys like this to make typical navigation in the game easier. Alternatively you could tie the hotkey to a key combination like control+key or something. If the key combination is hard on your hands (which I can imagine it might be) you could have the hotkey only work when caps lock is enabled or scroll lock etc. Then you could just toggle your hotkeys off quickly, then turn them back on, etc. If you don't like messing with those you can also create a hotkey that just turns all your other hotkeys on or off. Bind that one to a key you won't use normally (maybe an unused F-key or I have often used the tilde button), whatever works for you.

[MangoNacre]

More good suggestions! Thanks again, Leost. I'll play around with it some more and should be able to find a working combination. I like the tilde button idea.

[flamethrower]

I made some Autohotkey scripts. For until they build support for this.

1920x1080

#NoEnv  ; Recommended for performance and compatibility with future AutoHotkey releases.
; #Warn  ; Enable warnings to assist with detecting common errors.
SendMode Input  ; Recommended for new scripts due to its superior speed and reliability.
SetWorkingDir %A_ScriptDir%  ; Ensures a consistent starting directory.

; 1920x1080, full screen, hotkeys for program/teach mode

CoordMode, Mouse

1::
Click, 86, 791 ; record
return

2::
Click, 173, 791 ; play/pause
return

3::
Click, 260, 791 ; stop
return

4::
Click, 346, 791 ; drop items2
return

5::
Click, 409, 791 ; to me!
return

6::
Click, 409, 874 ; bot database
return

\::exitapp

+F12::reload

1920x1200

#NoEnv  ; Recommended for performance and compatibility with future AutoHotkey releases.
; #Warn  ; Enable warnings to assist with detecting common errors.
SendMode Input  ; Recommended for new scripts due to its superior speed and reliability.
SetWorkingDir %A_ScriptDir%  ; Ensures a consistent starting directory.

; 1920x1200, full screen, hotkeys for program/teach mode

CoordMode, Mouse

1::
Click, 86, 913 ; record
return

2::
Click, 173, 913 ; play/pause
return

3::
Click, 260, 913 ; stop
return

4::
Click, 346, 913 ; drop items2
return

5::
Click, 409, 913 ; to me!
return

6::
Click, 409, 993 ; bot database
return

\::exitapp

+F12::reload

If you use a different resolution, I used this script to display screen coords:
autohotkey.com/board/topic/75360-how-to-know-the-x-y-coordinate-of-my-screen/?p=479671