SXYGeeK
Gallente
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Posted - 2010.10.15 18:56:00 -
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"Don't like clicking?
Fine. In that case you might be interested to know that you can execute the combat shortcuts explained above through your keyboard alone. Simply set focus to the overview (there is even a new shortcut to do that; ALT+SPACE) and press one of the combat shortcut keys.
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Playing with this on the test server I am really liking it.
when you have a selected target you can just press one of the hotkeys (no clicking at all) to execute the command.
you can even use Alt-Space to focus on the overview and use the arrow up and down keys to select a target.
one trouble I have with it currently is that when you session change there is no selected item in the overview, the up and down arrows will not work in the overview until a target is selected with the mouse.
this concept could be expanded a few ways that would really rock.
overview tabs (after setting focus to overview use left and right arrow to change tabs, up and down arrow to select targets)
overview filter hotkey and fields (google style filter fields for each column in the overview that can be used to filter)
pressing the hotkey or clicking a filter button in the overview header would make filter textboxes apeer in the header for each column. click into the field or using left right arrows to select the field would allow text to be entered into the filter field. as text is entered the overview would be filtered to rows containing the entered text in that column.
the up/down arrow keys would then select overview rows within that list
finally the filter hotkey or button would close the filters and return the overview to an unfiltered state.
(this could be used to filter for specific ship types, corps/alliances, character names, radial velocities, ext)
selected target hotkey,
when keying through rows in the overview the selected target does not change, a hotkey to set the selected target via the overview hotkeys would be great.
locked target selection,
hotkeys to toggle through the locked targets as the selected target, or even to select specific locked target numbers.
this concept could be taken into other windows as well.
such as the fleet broadcasts window.
a hotkey to set focus to the broadcast history window and the most recent broadcast there, then arrow up down could go down through broadcast history.
hotkeys we expect should then work for those broadcast items.
Ctrl to lock and select, A to approch, whatever to select, ext...
or the drones window,
a refactor of the drone window would go well with this.
I would default the drones in space to be always open, merge drones in distant, and abandonend/recovereable or whatever into one.
So the drone window would simply show all launched drones, and their status.
by clicking a launch a launch drones button, or pressing a hotkey, the list of drones in bay organized by groups would display in the drone window. the arrow up/down keys could select the drone group, then the launch hotkey would launch them. arrow right could expand groups allowing individual drones to be launched. space or clicking out would close the launch window.
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