Playing TotH Without Using The ctrl Key

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Playing TotH Without Using The ctrl Key

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I prefer to stay away from using the keyboard in a game if I can and in TotH you have to do so quite often when selecting units.

I use X-Mouse for just that. This works with a standard mouse as well as multi buttoned mice. I'll show how to use your left mouse button in lieu of pressing ctrl + left-click.

Download and install X-Mouse

https://www.highrez.co.uk/scripts/downl ... age=XMouse

1) Start Tigers on the Hunt. Alt-Tab out and run X-Mouse (look in your START menu)


2) Click the ADD button




3) Double click on the Tigers on the Hunt application in the list of running apps and then the OK button






4) TotH was added and should be highlighted. If it is not, click it in the panel to do so. The changes we will make are on the right panel once highlighted. Click the Down Arrow (pointed to in the pic) on the Left Button heading and scroll down to Simulated Keys (Undefined) and left click it.



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5) Copy and paste the two commands shown into the field at the top. You can also type it in as {CTRL}{LMB}. Click OK, APPLY, then CLOSE.



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It's as simple as that. Now when you want to select multiple units in a hex you just click your left mouse button to select the units and do not need to press ctrl and left click each time.

Some menus won't let you click them with this method. When faced with this issue just use your ENTER key instead or just set up the Middle mouse button for standard left click.

Thanks Monkie.



EDIT: With the addition of the shortcut to advance the phase by pressing Space I have found doing the above steps for the middle button and using {SPACE} as the simulated key saves me even more mouse time.
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It's a great idea, but it hasn't worked for me, sadly. No matter which buttons I define and what actions I assign for them, nothing changes.


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Did you point to the correct .exe?

Are you starting the game with that .exe?
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Thanks for the tip! Got it to work.
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You're welcome. Glad it worked. Got the game early last week but only fired it up late last night after watching idjesters feed and installing the ASL mod.

I am going to like this game I can tell. I'm excited as to where the game will go in the future.
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wouldn't work in programs or x86 but installed to C: -- it works. i might have missed something cause i was skimming.

thanks!
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wouldn't work in programs or x86 but installed to C: -- it works. i might have missed something cause i was skimming.

thanks!


Hmmm. I have most of my Matrix games on my Data drive.

Is anyone else getting this to work?
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Great idea, it works very well.

I changed it up a bit and just made the Left Mouse Button a CTRL-LMB combination and it seems to work just as well from my limited testing. No need to mess with the Middle Mouse Button at all unless you preferred it.
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TY Monkie. I was just going to point to that discovery. It works even better. Too bad the pointer has to be over the unit text panel otherwise programming the scroll buttons as UP and DOWN arrows would let you scroll the list and select the units from where the pointer is over the units on the map saving a TON of mouse movements.
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This shouldn't be necessary. The entire UI needs to be refactored.

Thanks for your efforts to attempt to improve the absolute worst part of the game though. :)
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Did you change it kylania? Give it a go.
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Thank you, it works great !
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Once small issue if you are using the LMB-CTRL combo on the LMB press. When using this combo you cannot click to select the pull down menus at the start of the scenario ie selecting Human vs AI, Difficulty etc. You can select and highlight using the mouse button but will need to press ENTER to finalize the selection.
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Thanks. It works very well.[:)]
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Awesome! You the man!
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It works! Thanks for that tip. As already pointed out by Franciscus you have to use the enter key for team selection. Also, I haven't tried it with the editor yet. I imagine it would be best to deactivate x-mouse before using the editing tool.
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I don't think it affects the editor because that is actually ran under another .exe
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I don't think it affects the editor because that is actually ran under another .exe

Ah ha, yes. Problem solved, thanks [:)]
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RE: Want To Get Away From Using The ctrl Key?

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ORIGINAL: Missouri_Rebel

Did you point to the correct .exe?

Are you starting the game with that .exe?

Yes, definitely the right .exe but no joy. I tried several times, even resorting to the good old reboot.

Maybe, as someone mentioned below, it's to do with it being installed in x86 - I'm not sure whether the remark referred to the X-Mouse application or TotH.


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