Long hotkeys

[khonkhortisan]

I'm using numpad for movement. I never run, though if I would, I would use numpad dot first. I moved all my hotkeys from the numbers to the numpad. The hotkeys are written right-aligned, and go much past the left side of the icons at both 32px and 64px.
I changed "[A]+[S]+Keypad +" to "ASK+" by changing game/engines/te4-1.0.4.teae/engine/KeyBind.lua to read

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if ctrl then sym = "C"..sym end
if shift then sym = "S"..sym end
if alt then sym = "A"..sym end
if meta then sym = "M"..sym end
sym = string.gsub(sym,"Keypad ","K")

This is a hack, and not the correct way to fix it. However, a visual change like this "offlines" the game, even when compressed again. Maybe hotkeys should bounce sideways like other text does when oversize.

[Crim, The Red Thunder]

Or just adopt his ASK labels into maingame. Certainly fits better. And having ctrl and alt versions of talents be right there on your movement keys, might actually be rather efficient.

[khonkhortisan]

I couldn't get an addon to over/superload engine/KeyBind.lua, so I just resized the hotbar so I could still tell what everything was (12x5)
Now my game is validated again and somewhat usable.

[khonkhortisan]

I made it into a one-liner for the Lua Console

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game.engine.KeyBind.formatKeyString2=game.engine.KeyBind.formatKeyString;game.engine.KeyBind.formatKeyString=function(...)return string.gsub(string.gsub(string.gsub(string.gsub(string.gsub(game.engine.KeyBind.formatKeyString2(...),"%[C]%+","C"),"%[S]%+","S"),"%[A]%+","A"),"%[M]%+","M"),"Keypad ","K")end

and the antidote

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game.engine.KeyBind.formatKeyString=game.engine.KeyBind.formatKeyString2;game.engine.KeyBind.formatKeyString2=nil

...woohoo, it works as an addon!
http://te4.org/games/addons/tome/short-hotkeys

[Zireael]

That's great!

[darkgod]

done