key on keyboard

[Tally]

Is it possible to bind 5 not to open the menu
but it is obvious when you're in the game
For example, while you're in the game you push the button 5 and then you set sentrygun

or something else

COD2 only monitors certain keys in the engine - attackbuttonpressed() meleebuttonpressed() usebuttonpressed(). Any other key cannot be detected by the engine. If you want a key such as 5 to be used for something you have to create a work-around, where you use a menu and scriptmenuresponse and monitor for it. And then it is just a single push of the button. The game will not detect you holding a key down for a certain period.

All this has been posted on this site numerous times. I suggest you get to know the "search" button at the top of the forum, and learn to use it to find all the threads that are on this subject.

[kung foo man]

The game will not detect you holding a key down for a certain period.

Exactly that I wanted to try some days ago and I wasn't able to implement that, though had some nice idea.

In Counter-Strike Source this is possible:

		alias +sens "sensitivity 1"
alias -sens "sensitivity 3"
bind alt +sens 
	

When pressing "Alt-Key" now, the sensitivity is really slow, hence good aiming on far distance.

I wanted to make that for CoD 2 starting with:

		set +sens "sensitivity 1" 
	

That fails already, because cvar-keys are not allowed to have "+" in it. But there is a way around:

		// set +sens is not possible, illegal name
set sens_p "sensitivity 1; say test_a"
set sens_m "sensitivity 3; say test_b"

// they didnt check in setfromdvar though :)
setfromdvar +sens sens_p
setfromdvar -sens sens_m

// the actual binding:
bind o +sens 
	

That looked for me, that it could already work, but the result is kinda strange:

		// pressing o results in:
// +sens = "111 -1471273609"
// -sens = "111 -1471273546"
// the last number is always random, but often starts with -147 
	

Well, "bind o +sens" kinda "executes" a cvar, so I tried stuff like

		bind o "vstr +sens" 
	

, but that doesn't worked also :S Would be nice if somebody push the idea with +/- further for new state-keys like attackButtonPressed().

[serthy]

You can FAKE a button and check if its pressed or not, i'll provide the bind when im at home. However this is not as good and save as useButtonPressed() and its counterparts
syntax is similar to:
bind F5 "openscriptmenu test start_f5; +speed; openscriptmenu test stop_f5;-speed"

speed and some other available in cod2, but not used binds only can be used and not all of them reset themselfes with -speed

this will trigger a menuresponse when pressed and also when released the F5-key

as already said, its not this safe and smooth, but it kind of works!

[serthy]

bind F5 "openscriptmenu test start_f5; +speed; openscriptmenu test stop_f5;-speed"

correct syntax:

		bind F5         "+holdbreath;-holdbreath;openscriptmenu clientcmd custombutton1;-holdbreath"
bind F6         "+strafe;-strafe;openscriptmenu clientcmd custombutton2;-strafe"
bind F7         "+speed;-speed;openscriptmenu clientcmd custombutton3;-speed"
bind F8         "+mlook;-mlook;openscriptmenu clientcmd custombutton4;-mlook"