How to: Make new keyboard shortcuts

[bamboofats]

is here anyone who could take this shotcut:
['select_all_units_of_same_type'] = {action = 'UI_ExpandCurrentSelection', category = 'selection', order = 44,},

and change(copy+change) it to:
['select_all_units_of_same_type on screen'] = {action = 'UI_ExpandCurrentSelection', category = 'selection', order = 44,}

it would be much more usefull, please?

I wrote a simple UI mod for this function. It is standalone, but does not work correctly when other selection restricting mods are active. It does not affect them though, just gets itself bugged. You can bind the hotkey with F1 under "mods" section.

The mod is rather crude, it places the unit id of the current selection into an array, then compares every onscreen unit with the array iteratively to pick out the similar ones. I haven noticed any selection lag with it even with selecting 1000 units though. Do anything you want with the mod.

[ZeRen]

is here anyone who could take this shotcut:
['select_all_units_of_same_type'] = {action = 'UI_ExpandCurrentSelection', category = 'selection', order = 44,},

and change(copy+change) it to:
['select_all_units_of_same_type on screen'] = {action = 'UI_ExpandCurrentSelection', category = 'selection', order = 44,}

it would be much more usefull, please?

I wrote a simple UI mod for this function. It is standalone, but does not work correctly when other selection restricting mods are active. It does not affect them though, just gets itself bugged. You can bind the hotkey with F1 under "mods" section.

The mod is rather crude, it places the unit id of the current selection into an array, then compares every onscreen unit with the array iteratively to pick out the similar ones. I haven noticed any selection lag with it even with selecting 1000 units though. Do anything you want with the mod.

thx, that is exactly what I wanted , but that bugging make me sad

[wasdf]

Replying on thread so this isn't hard to find for me anymore.

P.S. someone please sticky this? It's super helpfull

[mirroredwang]

Replying on thread so this isn't hard to find for me anymore.

P.S. someone please sticky this? It's super helpfull

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[nine2]

make a wiki page and link to here

[Nexus_of_Reality]

I tried the idle air scout thing and copied it to look exactly like yours as shown in the downloadable .rar file ZeRen, and it doesn't work for me ,-, Anything i try doesn't show up in the F1 menu >.>

really annoying because I've been trying to get this hotkey to show up in the F1 menu for like 40 min xD (any help would be appreciated) ^^

[Gorton]

stickied

[mirroredwang]

['Select nearest idle t1 engineer'] = {
order = 2,
action = 'UI_SelectByCategory +add +nearest +idle TECH1 ENGINEER',
category = 'Custom Keys'
},

it selects more than one, but only if i move the mouse closer to the second, third etc. engineer. Only the literal nearest gets added to the selection, which is always the same one unfortunately.

i want to select 3 near idle engineers by tapping my hotkey 3 times without moving the mouse in any direction. Is this possible?


BTW, are there more modifiers?

EDIT: Maybe a combination of cycle and add without the camera hop, if that is possible?

[nine2]

It is not possible to write a key that does what you describe, that would require a mod.
However the function you describe is actually built in to the game (possibly since hotbuild) and only works for t1 engies.
There are no other modifiers (that I know of). There is a way to remove categories from a selection but that's kind of different

[nine2]

What would be cool is if there was an +unselected modifier... Then u could add the nearest unselected engie to the selection.