0003278: Keyboard diagram to track unassigned shortcut keys - Arcen Idea Tracker (Bugs and Features)

ID	Project	Category		Date Submitted	Last Update

0003278	AI War 1 / Classic	Suggestion - Interface Ideas - Game and Menu Controls		Apr 19, 2011 4:21 am	Sep 27, 2011 11:56 am

Reporter	martyn_van_buren	Assigned To
Status	new	Resolution	open
Product Version	5.010

Summary	0003278: Keyboard diagram to track unassigned shortcut keys
Description	I wanted to change a keyboard shortcut just now, and I realized that there are so many shortcuts that I'm not sure which keys are free to be reassigned. It would make it a lot easier to customize your controls if you could look at a diagram of the keyboard while you were on the controls menu. I imagine it would show green for free keys, yellow for assigned keys, and red for keys that have two contradictory assignments, and then if you hovered the mouse over the image of a key it would tell you exactly what it was assigned to do. The color code might be hard to implement for Alt + key and such things, but even being able to hover would make it easier. This is sure as heck not urgent, but it would be a convenient thing to have.
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Red Spot Apr 20, 2011 2:29 pm reporter ~0011980	You could create something like this with say excell, even share it on the forum. That would save the devs some time ;) Lots of games already do something like this but as they generally provide it as hard copy or soft copy in the form you cant properly edit it becomes fairly useless after the first time you change some keybinds :)

HTL2001 Apr 21, 2011 7:41 pm reporter ~0011991	for the alt + key combos, you could have the keyboard layout coloring change when holding those modifier keys

Date Modified	Username	Field	Change
Apr 19, 2011 4:21 am	martyn_van_buren	New Issue
Apr 20, 2011 2:29 pm	Red Spot	Note Added: 0011980
Apr 21, 2011 7:41 pm	HTL2001	Note Added: 0011991
Sep 27, 2011 11:56 am	TechSY730	Relationship added	related to 0004079