Keyboard issue with the angle brackets

magyar645 · 2013-04-20T10:04:49.000Z

Hi i’ve recently downloaded Cataclysm DDA after watching a couple of video about it , but when it comes to create my character i can go on after the stat tab , cataclysm wont recognise how my keyboard process the angle brackets ( < , > ) which annoys me alot ,because cataclysm is exactly the type of roguelike i was looking for ( i cant find how to make so that i dont need to shift+( whatever key is my bracket key ( , and . ) on my keyboard)) i was wondering if any of the dev or forum user here could enlighten me ?

Soron · 2013-04-20T10:29:17.000Z

You’re unable to enter the “<” and “>” characters? Huh, that’s odd. What keyboard/layout/etc. are you using, which prevents them from being recognized?
Are you able to compile the game from source? If so, open up newcharacter.cpp and edit the relevant occurrences of “<” and “>”. There might be other places where the game is confused by your keyboard, but at least that’ll be a start (and if you know how to fix one, you can try fixing more).
If you can’t edit the source, I’ll see if I can make those configurable before the next official release.

pingpong · 2013-04-20T15:16:07.000Z

Did you make sure you were holding shift?

magyar645 · 2013-04-20T16:01:07.000Z

1- No , i dont know how to compile the game from source

2- Yes configurable keys for menu for the next release would be awesome

3- Yes i was pretty much sure i was pressing shift

magyar645 · 2013-04-21T02:17:50.000Z

oh and i used English ( Canada, US, UK ) and French (Canada) layout to be sure , it just seems to me that the game doesnt recognise the shift key when used for brackets.

Im eager to finally play XD

pingpong · 2013-04-21T03:58:45.000Z

If you still can’t do it, there’s key mapping tools, if you feel like rebinding capslock or something to a compatible key (if kb language is the issue).

Soron · 2013-04-21T04:07:13.000Z

Hmm… You’ve got a French-friendly keyboard, I take it? Uh… that… huh. Your “<” and “>” keys are on the same physical key, just with shift used to select which one? Yeah, that’s significantly different from the US keyboard, which maps “<” to shift-",", and “>” to shift-".".

magyar645 · 2013-04-21T04:19:31.000Z

Soron:

Hmm… You’ve got a French-friendly keyboard, I take it? Uh… that… huh. Your “<” and “>” keys are on the same physical key, just with shift used to select which one? Yeah, that’s significantly different from the US keyboard, which maps “<” to shift-",", and “>” to shift-".".

no actually i have an english keyboard , the layout used by the canadian french is the same as us and UK my < and > keys are on coma and period keys

here is my keyboard http://www.quietpc.com/images/products/ms-desktop600-uk-large.jpg even on my default layout i cant use thoses brackets i’ll give another look at the keyboard settings

EDIT : I FINALLY FOUND IT ! and i blame myself for being dumb as fuck XD it was the key between backspace and enter if you take a look on the picture.
I appreciate the support though, i’ll let you know if i run in any other problems

Soron · 2013-04-21T04:31:09.000Z

On the key that normally handles “” and “|”? Yeah, I see why you were having issues, then.

Nonetheless, I’ve logged it on the Github issue tracker - there are a lot of keymappings that would be good to make configurable, but this one seems particularly important.