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  1. emersonrp
    Oh this is fantastic for working on possible use cases, thank you! What controller are you using? I ask because all I've been working with so far are a couple of XBox 360-flavored controllers, and they're a bit of a hassle with wx, the toolkit that BindControl uses. I have my controller working perfectly well now, in Linux, but it requires a little bit of a kludge, and in Windows the same code doesn't work and is going to need to be modified. I also start to suspect, from my initial Windows tinkerings, that the dpad on this controller is simply not supported in wx in Windows. So I'm thinking I'm going to have platform-specific and controller-specific code in there, which is going to be a bit of a headache but I'm game to try. Hopefully most controllers are going to fall into a few general classes that I can support. I also have access to PS3 controllers, and I'm not averse to getting a more modern controller or two, to tinker with this. Oh I also have Steam Controllers but I think they're such strange beasts that they oddly might not be helpful here. Also, looking at your setup, I'm discovering I'm going to need to do a little bit of internal restructuring of BindControl -- it currently thinks of "Mod Keys" and "Keys" mostly separately because of how wx keyboard events work, but there's a lot of combinations of buttons and bumpers and triggers in your examples, so I'll have to make a more general case for combining inputs that doesn't have strong opinions on what qualifies as a "Mod Key." Finally, there's a longstanding UI concern that I might need to address finally -- currently BindControl has one spot to pick, for instance, the bind for Forward, even though the game of course supports binding any number of keys or buttons to +forward. So, this is an existing feature failure -- BindControl can't bind both "W" and "Up Arrow" to +forward (or, more interestingly, to the Speed-On-Demand versions of "Forward"), and this is just made more apparent when we add controller support into the mix. Thanks again, this gives me a lot to think about and work with. If I can get this 360 controller working in Windows, I may release a beta for you to play with and see whether it works at all in your case or whether I have a lot more work to do. 🙂
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    Getting a chance to work on this a little. I have BindControl now correctly able to bind to controller buttons. Doing joystick / axis movements is a little hairier, and I haven't yet looked at the D-pad. It's coming along, though. Hopefully I'll have something to show off this next week.
  3. emersonrp
    Nono, not weird at all, no worries. I'm away on holiday travel right now so won't be getting to this for a bit, but yeah if you have input on anything that might be useful while implementing this, I'd be glad to see it. Thanks!
  4. emersonrp
    Wow, that is indeed not true, and I'm not sure why I've spent years of my life believing it was. Sorry about that. I am totally on board with adding in controller support. I have some apprehension about how easy it might or might not be since BindControl "listens" for the key/button to bind, so it, itself, will need to learn to support controllers, on Windows, Linux, and Mac, but what's life without a challenge? I'll take a look at this in the coming weeks now that I'm freed up from the holiday rush. Again sorry for the misinformation and ignorance. I'm seriously not sure how I've never seen that before.
  5. emersonrp
    So to clarify - do you mean binds useful to the Controller archetype, or support for hardware controllers like for XBox etc? The former would certainly be possible though I'd need input on what sorts of things would be useful for Controllers having never played one myself. I'd be delighted to get some ideas on that. The latter, though, is beyond the scope of BindControl, since City of Heroes itself doesn't have any support for binding to controller buttons or sticks or the like, and BindControl just uses the built-in /bind commands. You'd have to use some third-party app to map your controller to keyboard/mouse commands. I think you could use Steam's input configurator if you have City of Heroes added as a non-Steam game, but I'd have to tinker with that for a while to see for sure. (If you did map your controller to keyboard/mouse commands, you could of course use BindControl to make interesting binds that used those keys and mouse buttons!)
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    I also keep mulling how possible it might be to take the text representation of a bind and split/parse it into a Complex Bind. Then, assuming I put together a scheme to import/export custom binds, it would be possible to convert a raw bind string into an import/export-able chunk for easier sharing and editing. This might be overly optimistic but I may look into trying it.
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    CityBinder had a notion of importing and exporting configurations for each individual window, and individual binds for the various custom-binds schemes, that I currently haven't reproduced in BindControl. Tailcoat, in his work on modernizing CityBinder, was planning to include a collection of interesting configuration snippets, and it's an idea I really like in principle. It's not something that's trivial to do but isn't at all impossible, I'd just need to design and implement it in a BindControl-appropriate way, and wedge it in there. Having a library of cool binds seems like a win for everyone, I agree, so I'm going to put some thought into this. Thanks for the suggestion!
  8. emersonrp
    I've just added a prerelease "movementpowers-alpha-0.1" that incorporates many of the movement powers improvements that have been needed to bring the speed-on-demand binds into the modern era. It is not at all rigorously tested, and almost certainly not even in its final form, but any feedback would be deeply appreciated. https://github.com/emersonrp/bindcontrol/releases/tag/movement-0.1
  9. emersonrp
    I know I've been silent here for quite a while, but I got a feature request on github so I am tinkering again with how to improve the movement powers bindings to include more recent changes and additions. Look for an update in a bit, here.
  10. emersonrp
    Sorry for the silence; this spring is pretty busy for me so I'll be getting to this sporadically. I'm totally going to look into implementing the full-path and probably the auto-subfolder ideas mentioned above; I think these are both good QoL improvements. Meanwhile, I've just released v0.10, implementing the bulk of the Inspiration Popper UI / logic from CB4HC 0.2, and many many thanks to tailcoat for releasing that previously-unreleased version for me to pick through. Please check it out and let me know your luck with it!
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    So, like, create a subfolder in Documents for the profile (and currently-hypothetical other profile-related files), or do you mean specify a full arbitrary path for saving the profile, anywhere in the filesystem? Currently the profiles are saved to %userprofile%\Documents\bindcontrol\ProfileName.bcp (or the analogous location on Mac and Linux), and the keybinds are saved to the location specified in preferences.
  12. emersonrp
    Just released v0.9, which includes a stab at the "save profile as default" feature. Please check it out and let me know. Several related and unrelated bugfixes also.
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    Awesome, glad to hear it's working for you. The "default profile" feature was in the original CityBinder, but I never got around to implementing it yet. I can see a pretty quick path to it, knock wood, so I may see if I can bash that together. You'd just put together a profile, "Save as Default" and then any time you did "New Profile" it would start with that one. In other news, I have reimplemented (read: gratefully copied) much of Tailcoat's work on the Inspiration Popper, and after a bit more tinkering and testing will release that. Tailcoat's UI decisions are so much better than mine... 😉 Additionally I'm continuing slowly to work on movement powers as a class, including detangling the notion of speed on demand from the core notion of binding keys to movement. It's slow going because the existing speed-on-demand stuff is very very tangly and not super-well documented, as well as reliant on conceits that are no longer true, like, say, "Hover" and "Fly" being mutually exclusive. I need to work out what people want to do with speed on demand (if anything, is this simply a dead idea?) in a post-i25 world.
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    Just released v0.8.3 which makes changes to the possible teleport binds: "Teleport to Cursor" which will immediately teleport the max distance toward the cursor, good for use with click / double-click binds "Show Teleport Reticle" which will show the targeting reticle while held, like the existing "Teleport Combo Key" did.
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    I've been pondering just that, esp after seeing how you expanded Inspiration Popper that way. Really it's always been the case that the "Speed on Demand" module has more in there than just speed on demand, so I'm mulling yeah changing it to "Movement Powers" and making Speed on Demand a subset of it. Then, yeah, put Teleport in its own tab for sure and add in combat TP and stuff from your popmenu and so forth. I think the speed on demand stuff is still useful to leveling characters who can sometimes be endurance-starved, so I think I'm going to continue to have it in there, but it does need a rethink for the travel power changes. I already have the "just show Kheldian UI to Kheldians" functionality in there though the whole thing is commented out because I don't have the Kheldian binds working correctly (I need to level a couple on Homecoming still), but it could be its own tab too, that's only visible to kheldians. I mean, similarly, if stuff all gets broken out into tabs, it could just show the ones that are in the power pool picks in the main character UI. I start to wonder if it might not be useful to be able to create / write popup menu files, but that's a whole other ball of wax. I'm going to look at your sample binds later this evening -- I got your version 0.2 downloaded and working, which is awesome, thank you. Additionally, I made a quick change to the existing Teleport functionality so that the teleport bind key, formerly 'nop,' now casts "powexec_location cursor:max" on the teleport power, and does the right thing bound to double-click; and the teleport combo key shows the target ring like it always has, but a little more cleanly since it's not interacting with the teleport bind key any more. I'm going to upload that here in a little bit just to see how it plays for people. I think it's a good marginal improvement.
  16. emersonrp
    Digging deeper I see that there was supposed to be some sort of interaction between "Teleport Combo Key" and "Teleport Bind Key" where "Bind Key" was only active when "Combo Key" was held down and otherwise did nothing. There is also behavior intended for press and release functionality having to do with "hover during teleport" and this whole thing seems both a little bit overengineered and underfeatured, missing some stuff from i27's Teleport revamp. What you're wanting is to be able to bind double-click to cast "teleport to max distance," right? Forward, or in the direction the camera is facing? I'm considering adding that, leaving combo key as the "hold to teleport" function, and coming up with some scheme for Combat Teleport. Any requests?
  17. emersonrp
    Still for teleport, yeah? This is very weird, digging in the original generation code, I see that CityBinder quite intentionally does the same thing for -any- value for "Teleport Bind," so it's either a bug left over that I faithfully ported or it's a misunderstanding on everyone's part as to how it was intended to work, but it seems like "Teleport Bind" is, and has been, disabled for a long time. (The same is true of "Team Teleport Bind") Looks like "Teleport Combo Key" however will correctly cast the basic teleport power, as well as adding in the movement details settings, camera distance settings, and hiding the windows, so maybe it's what you're looking for? I see this as an opportunity to repurpose the "Teleport Bind" control / bind / logic for the "teleport forward max distance" functionality, and I'm going to get started on that. Meanwhile let me know whether "Teleport Combo Key" works as you expect or if it's overengineered somehow. I'd really like to get this working for you, but can you tell I don't use Teleport much? I need to level some more alts.... Thanks for all the input.
  18. emersonrp
    I've just released v0.8.2, which should fix this problem. Unfortunately, you'll need to rebind the misbehaving keys/clicks and resave the profile. Let me know your luck with this.
  19. emersonrp
    Excellent, thanks for all this. I'll take a look at it soon and maybe get back with you. This is going to be extremely helpful, I can tell.
  20. emersonrp
    Oh yeah it looks like it's incorrectly building the bind in your case. Weird that it works in my case but I have a more complicated profile so it probably triggers different code paths. This is a bug and I am on it, thanks.
  21. emersonrp
    Hm, I am not able to reproduce this. When I bind something to ctrl-lclick, it works as expected, and lclick still opens doors and the tram. However, ctrl-lclick will try to fire the power -and- try to open a door/etc if it's used when the "hand" icon is visible over the door. I think this is just a consequence of how City of Heroes processes left-click specifically. I've seen warnings in various bind guides that trying to tinker with left and right click binds can have unexpected results, sadly, since the game treats those specially. Is it possible you accidentally have a bind to just "lclick" or "lbutton" in your binds? If you do /bindsavefile and look at keybinds.txt? If that's not the case, toss me your keybinds.txt and your saved BindControl profile and I'll take a look as to what might be happening. As far as binding double-click to Teleport not firing the power, yeah, I see now that my 0.8.1 double-click fix was not adequate -- BindControl needs a separate option that uses "/powexec_location", one of the many Issue 25 additions that I need to integrate. Currently it just has the binding for the "Teleport" power, which is the basic version that lets you pick the location with a click. I'll look at adding a "teleport directly to max distance straight ahead" option to bind double-click to. Thanks for the reports!
  22. emersonrp
    I'd -love- to see what you have cooking, yes. Some of those screenshots are delightful, and so much easier on the eyes than the original CityBinder. I'm intrigued by your modular concept. I made the decision early on to turn BindControl into a tab-based interface, which in some ways is easier to deal with, but also makes for weirdly-laid-out tabs for "modules" that have less UI than, say, SoD. Keeping CityBinder's notion of opening a separate module-managed window for each module has started to seem cleaner as the years have gone on, but I haven't revisited it in a long long time. Your additions to Inspiration Popper totally mirror the half-baked ideas I was thinking about in the back of my head for "someday" so that's very cool to see implemented. The build-a-macro feature seems fun and useful, but having to ship the entire game's icons seems daunting. Still, BindControl ships a -lot- of the icons already, so that's not completely out of the question. Cool idea with sorting by color etc. So yea, in short, I'd be delighted to see any notes you have and/or take a look at the unreleased version itself. Thanks for the offer, and thanks for giving CityBinder some love.
  23. emersonrp
    I've found some info on how people have been doing that for Hasten + Domination, for instance: It uses bindloadfile and a few bindfiles to do its magic, which means it's going to be at best difficult to integrate with SoD, since SoD uses its own bindloadfile tricks to do its thing. That said, it doesn't seem impossible, just complicated. And again, the implementation of SoD needs a complete rethink anyway since the Homecoming movement power changes, so this is not off the table.
  24. emersonrp
    Ah interesting -- so there would be a list of click powers at the front of the movement binds so it fires whatever is available before starting to move? I suspect it might end up mutually exclusive with SoD just because the binds might get longer than the allowed 255 characters, but I can totally look into adding that. The movement / SoD stuff needs a full-on rethink anyway, as it doesn't account for the Homecoming movement power changes from a year or so ago. I keep postponing thinking about it but maybe now is the time. Thanks for the feedback, I'll keep y'all posted.
  25. emersonrp
    Excellent! Thanks for trying it out, keep me posted. 😃
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