Disable Echap key

[Shrrignien]

Hi my lords, is there a way to disable the echap key ?

I use many custom cinematic with images that I drew myself + custom text, and for some of them, I really need to disable the echap key in order to prevent the skip possibilities, I know that it could be a bad thing (speed run or multpiple playthough) but, for now, it will break the game if a player skip a cinematic...

Thank you by advance !

Shrrignien

 

[Shrrignien]

This thread really helped me (Ty BloodSoul) :

How do I make cinematic transmissions unskippable?

When someone presses esc during a cinematic, the transmission is gone. Can I disable that somehow?

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[Shrrignien]

I fixed every problems like this :
1) use custom script at the map initialization
Custom script : call TryInitCinematicBehaviorBJ()
Custom script : call DisableTrigger(bj_cineSceneBeingSkipped)

2) For each cinematic, create a dummy unit with expiration timer equal to your cinematic duration (example 30s).

3) When this dummy die, if you want to send another transmission, then recreate another dummy with expiration timer + the next transmission, or let it go (turn off cinematic/letterbox...) if you need only 1 transmission.

4) The trigger, "a player skip cinematic" still detect the "echap" key, so we can use the dedicated trigger to detect if a player wants to skip a cinematic. in this case, we just have to kill the dummy cinematic unit that we created before, if there is another transmission after, it will continue, if not, the cinematic mode will be turned off automatically.


it is a really quick explanation, but with this system, i can have different cinematic at the same time for MULTIPLE PLAYERS, and each one can skip its own cinematic WITHOUT SKIPPING OTHERS PLAYERS ones.

I hope, this may give some clues for those in trouble like me.

 

[Uncle]

I'm sure the Dummy solution works fine, but this should really be done with standard Timers. They're the same exact thing as an Expiration Timer but without the need of a Unit to be created/killed. Since your solution works I wouldn't worry about changing your triggers, I just wouldn't recommend it to others since there's an objectively better method.

Also, most people on here will be confused by "Echap" key, I know I was

 

[Shrrignien]

I used timer long time ago, but dummies give me more flexibilities : I can attach specials effect, abilties in order to do various things with them, all my timers are specific units now. Timers are usefull yes but I'm not 100% confident with them, and I have always found them buggy and unreliable for my use...

I suspect that it's my use which is not the good one, but I have taken the habit of doing without for a long time now.

 

[Uncle]

Well, if you make good use of them for other things then I don't see an issue. I just wanted to make sure that you weren't making things harder for yourself.

I know Timers in GUI are pretty awful to work with, they must be global variables and their arrays require defined Sizes and lack proper detection for which Timer expired. That being said, if you use a GUI Timer System that takes advantage of local timers created in Jass, you can get a lot more use out of them. Although, at that point it's probably more bloat/extra steps than just using a Dummy unit...