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The Pause|break key worked to Pause/Unpause the game, but all of a sudden two days ago or so it stopped functioning. Instead it behaves like num4 and scoots the map to the left.

Its really a pain to use the button only. I play both at work and at home. The Work computer has NOT had this problem.. only at home. My thoughts are it could be a keyboard problem(the pause key went somehow bad) or I could have inadvertently unbound pause (I certainly didn't try to do that), and wasn't messing with any configuration files).

Is there a way I can bind the pause function to another key? If so how would I do that?

Thanks
 
Ctl Alt Scroll Lock

Those were my first thoughts. I checked it all out and not the problem. its literally like pause is outputting num4 or left arrow. I'm sure someone out there has an app to snoop the keyboard output and let me know what code is being sent. I almost hate to admit my home computer keyboard is a $5 special so maybe it just went bad.
 
Thats a pretty good possibility, it could also be some software thats remapping the keys. You could try removing your keyboard driver and lettting windows reinstall it for you, or if it says anything other than Standard 101/102 key then switch the driver.
 
Try remapping the keys yourself, set the spacebar to pause the game, makes life easier anyway.
 
I hope I'm not butting in, but...

I REALLY would love to remap the pause function to the space bar. The pause/break key very unhandy, being all the way up there. With the space bar I would never have to look down to pause the game ever again. :cool: :)

If anyone could, please explain a bit on how to do this. I would think that many people would like to do this, no? The space bar is just so much more accessable.

Thanks,

Rocco
 
Buttons file

There is a file I found called buttons. here is an excerpt from it

press = {
id = "BUTTON_ZOOM_IN"
background = "BTN_ZOOM_IN.bmp"
bitmap = "empty.bmp"
shortcut = +
lower = "BUTTON_0043"
upper = ""
}

press = {
id = "BUTTON_ZOOM_OUT"
background = "BTN_ZOOM_OUT.bmp"
bitmap = "empty.bmp"
shortcut = -
lower = "BUTTON_0044"
upper = ""
}




press = {
id = "BUTTON_PAUSE"
bitmap = "empty.bmp"
background = "pause_button.bmp"
***shortcut = F11***
lower = "BUTTON_0050"
upper = ""
}

I added the ***shortcut = F11*** without the asterisks of course.. no luck :(
 
Re: Kybd Remapping

Originally posted by Protagoras

Geez I sound demanding there :) I should say if your know could you tell me :)
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Not at all, this forum is all about asking for help, I find this forum a lot more polite than the bug forum, when you would think it should be the other way around. :)

Hitting Ctrl-Pause or Ctrl-Break has been known to work, By chance is either your keyboard or mouse wireless?

Anyway here is the link to a keyboard remapper.
REMAPPER

Let me know about the wireless thing though please.
 
Re: Re: Kybd Remapping

Originally posted by Castellon
Not at all, this forum is all about asking for help, I find this forum a lot more polite than the bug forum, when you would think it should be the other way around. :)

Hitting Ctrl-Pause or Ctrl-Break has been known to work, By chance is either your keyboard or mouse wireless?

Anyway here is the link to a keyboard remapper.
REMAPPER

Let me know about the wireless thing though please.
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Nothing wireless at all. Just el cheapo. One thing I will do I have a few extra keyboards around and will try several this is quite possibly a keyboard HW problem... only thing that bugs me is the pause acting like the left arrow key?
 
Re: Re: Re: Kybd Remapping

Originally posted by Protagoras
Nothing wireless at all. Just el cheapo. One thing I will do I have a few extra keyboards around and will try several this is quite possibly a keyboard HW problem... only thing that bugs me is the pause acting like the left arrow key?
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Come on tell the truth ... You spilt your coffee on it didn't you :D
 
No luck on changing the pause button here either progatorus (sorry if I misspelled, can't look back at your name).

I even tried changing the button_0050 to another number and inserting a shortcut line. Nothing changed, the pause break button still paused the game :confused:

A mystery to me.

Thanks,

Rocco
 
by any chance, are any of you using a Logitech keyboard or mouse?

BiB and others had this problem before and the only thing in common they all had was a Logitech device (either mouse or kb).
 
Originally posted by viper37
by any chance, are any of you using a Logitech keyboard or mouse?

BiB and others had this problem before and the only thing in common they all had was a Logitech device (either mouse or kb).
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Yeah, HOI behaves exactly the same way (skip left instead of pause) as EU2 with Logitech keyboard. I've got 3 laptops and 3 desktops, only one that acts this way is the one with a Logitech keyboard. Never found a solution for this, workaround is to use CTRL-PAUSE.
 
Originally posted by Steel
Yeah, HOI behaves exactly the same way (skip left instead of pause) as EU2 with Logitech keyboard. I've got 3 laptops and 3 desktops, only one that acts this way is the one with a Logitech keyboard. Never found a solution for this, workaround is to use CTRL-PAUSE.
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I have a Logitech Internet keyboard at home and never had this problem...

Of course, I don't install the Logitech keyboard driver/software either, because I tried it three years ago and it was buggy as all heck. Using the standard keyboard driver I don't have the problem, so you might want to try that out...
 
Re: Further Debug

Originally posted by Protagoras
I got it fixed, and this is the odd behavior.

When I use the Right Ctl key (on the enter key side) to ctl + say it makes pause|break act like num4. If I hit right ctl again pause|break works fine.

so its odd to be sure.
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Thanks Protagoras, for letting us know! That's going to help if anyone asks about it in the future.
 
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