Ctrl-Drag Bridge: instantly build fastest available

[Frostregen]

Some useful spinoff from copy&paste:

This patch allows to hold Ctrl while dragging a bridge,
which instantly builds the fastest available bridge,
without showing the bridge selection window.

I thought this may be useful because most players build the fastest available bridge anyway.

Please comment, or include

Greetings,
Frostregen

[Trond]

Sweet! Hope this goes into trunk!

[Indiana]

Very good idea!
I hate to scroll down the bridge menu to find the fastest.

[Ammler]

Nice idea.

Also possible to make something like "use the last used" bridge?

Greets
Ammler

[planetmaker]

Also possible to make something like "use the last used" bridge?

Yeah, very nice idea and even better, if Ammler's suggestion could be implemented as well (maybe with Alt or something).

[Zuu]

Also possible to make something like "use the last used" bridge?

Yeah, very nice idea and even better, if Ammler's suggestion could be implemented as well (maybe with Alt or something).

Alt+(left)Drag is commonly used by window-managers to move windows. (and right-drag to resize them)

But we could have either Alt or Super (windows key). Will not suit all either since Super is possible used by some windows-alike WMs such as gnome/kde. Maybe someone have a better idea?

[T-Unit]

Is there a programmable difference between right and left ctrl?

[Zuu]

Yes, but OTTD generalize the modifiers as just one 'key' of each type. At least if you look at the mod-bits. I don't remember if the CTRL-key exist also as a usual keycode where there could exist two keycodes one for left and one for right. But the OTTD standard way to read if a modifier is pressed is to look at the mod-bits.

(at least 1/2 a year ago, when I last worked on configurable hotkeys)

[leno4]

Excellent, thanks

[SirkoZ]

Thanks!

This indeed is a really useful feature. I usually build the fastest bridge, only perhaps sometimes I prefer the "golden" tubular over the "silver" one...

[planetmaker]

updated to trunk (r13058)

[planetmaker]

any chance for an updated? I currently fail to updated it properly :S

[Alberth]

yes

(edited: replaced attached patch file with new one with code/style changes as requested by Frostregen below)

[Frostregen]

If someone updates it again, consider using this version
http://bugs.openttd.org/?getfile=2853
as a base.
There were some coding/style changes, which should not be lost.

Thx,
Frostregen

[Alberth]

done (by manually patching the patch-file). Compiles and runs against current trunk (13418)

For new version see my previous post (removed previous version of the attachement as it is not useful any more anyway).

Albert

[Roujin]

Well, you are now able to sort bridges by speed in trunk. So I think this patch is not needed so urgently anymore...

[planetmaker]

Well, you are now able to sort bridges by speed in trunk. So I think this patch is not needed so urgently anymore...

True. But you still save one mouse click. Speed rulez

Frostregen & Albert: Thanks for the update.