[General] Possible to change "Hero Abilities" button Hotkey?

[DysfunctionaI]

The button that heroes have, called "Hero Abilities".

The only thing I know about it is that you can change the icon in the Gameplay Interface, but I don't see anything else to change anything on it, like tooltip, name or hotkey.

Are those things possible by importing my own file of some sort? I know you can change some pretty crazy stuff by overwriting it.

 

[Adiktuz]

You can change them via exporting/editing/importing the text file for command button settings... try to search here, there's already a thread for that

 

[DysfunctionaI]

CommandFunc.txt and CommandStrings.txt

Thanks!

 

[DysfunctionaI]

Omfg, I just made an amazing discovery that I don't think anyone else has tried before. You can map any key on your keyboard to a hotkey... like spacebar and Numpad keys and stuff. Gonna write a tutorial as soon as I'm done getting every single key, lol.

 

[Vinz]

In rare situations that would be helpful indeed, I just can't think of any atm.

 

[DysfunctionaI]

In rare situations that would be helpful indeed, I just can't think of any atm.

Basically yeah, the first one that came to mind was using spacebar as a "FIRE" button in RPG maps or gun maps or something.

Even still, it's cool to think that WC3 can now detect every single key on your keyboard, only in situations where you have a specific unit selected (to receive the hotkeys) and granted they have an extra command slot open for a dummy ability.

Right now, I've found like PAUSE, CAPSLOCk, SCROLL, NUM, all the numpad keys, SHIFT, SPACEBAR, INSERT, PAGEUP/DOWN, HOME, END, DELETE, BACKSPACE, and a few others. There's some special ones too, but only a handful of keys left to find, and I'll post them up in a list with a map attached.

The weirdest thing though, is that these keys aren't related to any sort of ASCII table or anything, they seem random.

 

[Vinz]

The hotkey field only allows one character right?

 

[DysfunctionaI]

Sort of. It only allows one key. Each key has a decimal representation, and you can set the hotkeys as their decimal form in any of the string files, like abilities and units, then import them into your map.

So where it says "Hotkey = a" you can change that to "Hotkey = 65" which translates to the letter a, based on the ASCII table.

The only keys that fit the ASCII table are A-Z though, the other ones seem random, so it's taking a while to find them all.

 

[Vinz]

Oh okay, thanks for explaining.