How to remap the pause key?

[Ekrenor]

Hello everybody,
I just got a new Dell Studio laptop and... it turns out that there is no PAUSE key!
Fact is that the pause key is quite fundamental when playing CK: is there any way I can remap it?
Btw, does anybody know why did Paradox choose the pause key rather than the spacebar (which AFAIK is now not associated with any operation of interest)?

Thank you.

E.

 

[Landwalker]

does anybody know why did Paradox choose the pause key rather than the spacebar (which AFAIK is now not associated with any operation of interest)?

Hrm... that is a rather puzzling question... Why would a company map the Pause function to the Pause key?

As far as I know, there's no easy way (and possibly no way at all) to remap the keys in CK. You can always just click in the top-right corner to pause, though.

Cheers.

 

[Veldmaarschalk]

There is no way to remap the pause-key

The buttons you can remap, you can find in Crusader Kings/db/buttons.txt

 

[Ekrenor]

Hrm... that is a rather puzzling question... Why would a company map the Pause function to the Pause key?

Irony aside, actually many games adopt the spacebar for the pause function, if this is meant to be frequently used (as I believe is the case also in CK).
It is well visible and much better placed than the (obscure) pause key, which btw is disappearing from laptop keyboards (e.g. the MacBook does not have it either).

In any case, it would have been very convenient to allow for customization in the button.txt file.

Cheers.

 

[LlywelynII]

Hello everybody,
I just got a new Dell Studio laptop and... it turns out that there is no PAUSE key!
Fact is that the pause key is quite fundamental when playing CK: is there any way I can remap it?

I have the same misfortune

If I were less lazy, I'd imagine there's something you could do with external software, but maybe not. They really should've allowed remapping though: hovering over the pause button on-screen can cause freezes and CTDs, especially between months or during autosaves.

 

[Nick B II]

It is well visible and much better placed than the (obscure) pause key, which btw is disappearing from laptop keyboards (e.g. the MacBook does not have it either).

AFAIK Apple has never produced a computer with a pause key. When I say never I mean never. Apples I-III, Lisas, and Macs all shipped without Pause keys. On full Apple Keyboards there are usually a couple extra function keys in place of Pause, Print Screen, and Scroll Lock.

So in the Mac version / pauses the game.

It sucks that you can't remap / to pause in CK. Johan should fix that when he gets around to making the DV beta official.

Nick

 

[Ekrenor]

It sucks that you can't remap / to pause in CK. Johan should fix that when he gets around to making the DV beta official.

It is possible, however, that Mr. Andersson might be unaware of this issue.
After all, when the game was released a few years ago, the pause/break key was still standard on all laptop keyboards.
I am considering about contacting the customer service about this.

Btw, when is the DV beta expected to become official? Is it like in a few months, in a year, or... er... never?

E.

 

[Madpainter]

I have mine remapped with a programme called autohotkey. You may find it easy or hard to do depending on your level of scripting skills (I managed ok but it wasn't a walkover) Its free, try googling it. If you get it and want to see my script pm me.

 

[Nick B II]

Btw, when is the DV beta expected to become official? Is it like in a few months, in a year, or... er... never?

The CK 1.04 beta went through a similar dev cycle. Johan et al. did a lot of work on it for months, then something big came up (EU3 IIRC) and sucked up all the coding time. After the big project was released and patched a time or two, they finished it.

So don't expect anything until HoI3 is at v 1.01.

Nick

 

[Ekrenor]

I have mine remapped with a programme called autohotkey. You may find it easy or hard to do depending on your level of scripting skills (I managed ok but it wasn't a walkover) Its free, try googling it. If you get it and want to see my script pm me.

I am not good at scripting, so of course I would be glad if you could pass me your script!
Thanks a lot!

 

[Madpainter]

I am not good at scripting, so of course I would be glad if you could pass me your script!
Thanks a lot!

OK download from here http://www.autohotkey.com/download/
It should come with a full help file.
Familiarise yourself with the basics of creating a simple script and running it. (just remap the x key to the y key or some other nonsense so you can see how it works).
Once you have that sussed here is the section I use regarding CK

simple version

#IfWinActive ahk_class StubDirectDrawWndClass
space::Send {PAUSE}

With mousewheel zooming

#IfWinActive ahk_class StubDirectDrawWndClass
wheelup::send {-}{wheelup}
wheeldown::send {+}{wheeldown}
space::Send {PAUSE}

The first line ensures that the key is only remapped while certain types of programme are active ie. CK and vicki and I assume other games with the same engine. Not EU3 which is a good thing

Always make sure when you edit a script you go to the icon in the tray and reload it.
Make sure the brackets are the right type { not (

NEVER remap the left mouse button I did it once and it took me half an hour to work out how to disable it without using a mouse.:rofl:

I have this in my startup folder cos I use this programme for tons of stuff, from using my mousewheel to turn my volume up and down to being able to input my email address with just 3 keypresses, check out the documentation its pretty cool stuff.