Attemps at using /keypress and control futile

Tinkoman · Post by **Tinkoman** » Tue Apr 06, 2004 12:16 pm

I can't seem to get the control keypress to work.

The following:

/keypress ctrl down

/keypress right_ctrl down

seems they should be right by the manual keymap, but 'ctrl' and 'right_ctrl' won't parse. (have tried capitalizing first letter, in the event that it might be case sensitive).

I hope that my searches and reading didn't miss something simple somewhere, but any help would be greatly appreciated.

daerck · Post by **daerck** » Tue Apr 06, 2004 1:29 pm

From the changes.txt

29 Mar 2004 by Lax (even more)
- Added /ctrl /alt and /shift commands:
/ctrl <command>
/alt <command>
/shift <command>
These execute a command while telling the window manager that a key is pressed. This can
be used in conjunction with /itemnotify to pick up a stack or a single item... example:
pick up a single item from a stack: /ctrl /itemnotify pack1 leftmouseup
pick up an entire stack: /shift /itemnotify pack1 leftmouseup
Because they execute a command, they can also be used together, as in
/ctrl /alt /shift <command>...

and later

Lax wrote:the new /alt /ctrl /shift commands are renamed to /altkey /ctrlkey /shiftkey. /ctrl and /shift will still do the commands just fine

Tinkoman · Post by **Tinkoman** » Tue Apr 06, 2004 2:14 pm

I guess I was a bit vague on what I am trying to do.

Instead of all the Math for finding a point behind the mob, and then moving there, I'm trying to strafe left/right as needed to stay behind.

cutting the code down after conditionals:

/<here's where I need to press and hold control key>
/keypress left hold
/timed 5
/keypress left
/<here i want to release control key>

Attempted to /ctrlkey <various forms of left>
no luck. 'hold' is not in the command set to meet the syntax:

/ctrlkey <command>

also looked for a right mouse click hold, which would in effect do the same thing, but can't find that it is implemented.

As a bandaid, I am currently using:
/sendkey down ctrl
/sendkey up ctrl

but... would like to migrate it to a keypress or some current implementation.
Thanks,

ml2517 · Post by **ml2517** » Tue Apr 06, 2004 3:35 pm

See if this works:

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/keypress STRAFE_LEFT hold
/delay 5
/keypress STRAFE_LEFT

Lax · Post by **Lax** » Wed Apr 07, 2004 3:00 pm

You misread the usage of /timed.

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/keypress left hold
/timed 5 /keypress left

Will press "LEFT" (note ml2517's use of STRAFE_LEFT) for 5 tenths of a second. /timed is to execute a command after exactly this amount of time, so you don't need to /delay or use timers to do something like this. /delay is a "blocking" method which prevents the next line from being executed for an amount of time. /timed is a "non-blocking" or "asynchronous" method which allows the next line to continue, and will execute your command no matter what is going on, after an amount of time.