Hotkeys 1,2,3,4 to change direction of roads and rails

wanthom · Post by **wanthom** » 04 Feb 2004 15:58

In DOS version hotkeys 1,2,3,4 worked perfect to change direction, and in Windows version it doesnt work. I have Patch 2.0 rev1. How I fix it? Is it possible?

eis_os · Post by **eis_os** » 04 Feb 2004 16:05

They work here with no problem, there wasn't any changes since ages, did you translate TTD via mktptxt?

If you see a ttdpttxt.dat in your folder, please rename it...

(We have a TTDPatch Problems Category, please use it the next time)

wanthom · Post by **wanthom** » 04 Feb 2004 20:35

I have translated version to Czech language....and file ttdpttxt.dat I haven't...

SHADOW-XIII · Post by **SHADOW-XIII** » 04 Feb 2004 21:52

do you have morehotkeys on

way_2_fun · Post by **way_2_fun** » 04 Feb 2004 23:10

More hotkeys didn't effect the direction of rail or road, (1,2,3,4) they worked without morehotkeys. Morehotkeys gave you more options, ranging from 5 to +/=.

SHADOW-XIII · Post by **SHADOW-XIII** » 05 Feb 2004 09:27

maybe because your CTRL/ALT/SHIFT key is pressed (or stuck) ...
press all of them and try again

eis_os · Post by **eis_os** » 05 Feb 2004 09:34

way_2_fun wrote:More hotkeys didn't effect the direction of rail or road, (1,2,3,4) they worked without morehotkeys. Morehotkeys gave you more options, ranging from 5 to +/=.

Do you know my and Josefs code for morehotkeys

If you enable more hotkeys, then they are aswell handled via morehotkeys.

After each step try testing:

Is your keyboard in caps before you start TTD?

You should have a ttdpttxt.dat when you have translated your version, please make a backup and remove it ...then test again
Disable morehotkeys and look again if 1-4 work.
If you have a translated version, look what base language it was, American, English, German French?
If that all doesn't work, please try to use a fresh copy of American.exe, English, German or French and copy it to TTD with the name gamegfx.exe

SHADOW-XIII · Post by **SHADOW-XIII** » 05 Feb 2004 09:38

I found also those:
'T' and '~' and '\' (T=transparency, ~=toggle remove)

way_2_fun · Post by **way_2_fun** » 07 Feb 2004 05:35

eis_os wrote:
way_2_fun wrote:More hotkeys didn't effect the direction of rail or road, (1,2,3,4) they worked without morehotkeys. Morehotkeys gave you more options, ranging from 5 to +/=.
Do you know my and Josefs code for morehotkeys
If you enable more hotkeys, then they are aswell handled via morehotkeys.

After each step try testing:

Is your keyboard in caps before you start TTD?

You should have a ttdpttxt.dat when you have translated your version, please make a backup and remove it ...then test again
Disable morehotkeys and look again if 1-4 work.
If you have a translated version, look what base language it was, American, English, German French?
If that all doesn't work, please try to use a fresh copy of American.exe, English, German or French and copy it to TTD with the name gamegfx.exe

Sorry, we must have a misunderstanding. What I meant (tried to) was that 1,2,3,4 worked without morehotkeys, and with morehotkeys, you got 1 to +/=, and as Shadow said, T and ~. Or am I mistaken? All of them work fine for me.

BobXP · Post by **BobXP** » 08 Feb 2004 15:39

T should work without morehotkeys

Patchman · Post by **Patchman** » 08 Feb 2004 17:23

BobXP wrote:T should work without morehotkeys

Don't listen to BobXP, he doesn't know what he's talking about.

wanthom · Post by **wanthom** » 08 Feb 2004 17:47

T working fine, but 1 - 4 not working with morehotkeys or without.....also working F1 - F12 works fine. I dont know why keys 1 - 4 dont work......

eis_os · Post by **eis_os** » 08 Feb 2004 18:02

What happens if you use some other app, like wordpad and enter: 1 2 3 4 ?

wanthom · Post by **wanthom** » 08 Feb 2004 18:48

This is problem only in TTD. In other app keys 1 - 4 works fine with no problem.......I have good keyboard. Problems is not in my keyboard.

Patchman · Post by **Patchman** » 08 Feb 2004 19:28

I guess for some reason TTD does not receive the key codes it expects because you don't have an english keyboard layout. In this case:

a) run mkpttxt once
b) open ttdpttxt.txt in Notepad, find the line "hotkeylistwin", and change the space after the first "x" into a question mark "?". Take care not to change or remove any other characters. Then save
c) run mkpttxt.exe again
d) start TTD, and press all keys from 1 to the end of the first row, as well as any keys to the left of "1". write down their "character" and "keycode"
e) enter the character in the hotkeylistwin entry, change the question mark back into a space, save, and run mkpttxt again
f) see if it works now

wanthom · Post by **wanthom** » 08 Feb 2004 20:16

OOOOOOOOpssssss

Thank you for good idea. I try only change default keyboard layuot from SK (slovak) to EN (english) and now it works perfectly. I didn't have to edit mkpttxt.exe. Problem was in default keyboard layout.
Thank you.

Patchman · Post by **Patchman** » 08 Feb 2004 21:32

well if you follow those steps you can make it work for SK layout too, if you like

BobXP · Post by **BobXP** » 08 Feb 2004 22:28

Patchman wrote:
BobXP wrote:T should work without morehotkeys
Don't listen to BobXP, he doesn't know what he's talking about.

Odd, those are the exact words you and eis_os post whenever I post anything in a problem topic. Is this some kind of bot?

Prof. Frink · Post by **Prof. Frink** » 08 Feb 2004 22:36

No, it's just accurate.

BobXP · Post by **BobXP** » 08 Feb 2004 22:42

That was a joke

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