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MetalGear

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Playing DF on a laptop?
« on: March 26, 2011, 11:11:03 pm »
I just got a new laptop and put DF on it so that I could have my dorfs on the go. When I tried playing, I couldn't get past the embark screen because I don't have a numpad with the + and - on it for purchasing skills and such. What do?
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Re: Playing DF on a laptop?
« Reply #1 on: March 26, 2011, 11:22:54 pm »
I play on an older laptop, it has a "fn" key that is similar to alt (and in fact is between the alt and ctrl keys) that changes some keys on he qwerty keyboard to a numerical keypad.
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Re: Playing DF on a laptop?
« Reply #2 on: March 26, 2011, 11:27:34 pm »
Are you sure you don't have the mini-numpad on the main keyboard, accessible from some function-key combination? Mine is printed across the 7-8-9, u-i-o, j-k-l part, and I use a special key down between control and alt to access them.

Or just rebind.
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Re: Playing DF on a laptop?
« Reply #3 on: March 26, 2011, 11:28:04 pm »
I remapped the secondary scroll keys to [ ] - = when I played on a netbook. Now I can't play any other way.
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Re: Playing DF on a laptop?
« Reply #4 on: March 26, 2011, 11:30:52 pm »
I mapped my secondary scroll keys to [, ], , , and .. This kinda messes up one of the military menus though.
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Re: Playing DF on a laptop?
« Reply #5 on: March 26, 2011, 11:44:42 pm »
Alright, thanks. Also, this key remapping business is done outside of df, right? There doesn't seem to be any key configuration option in there.
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Re: Playing DF on a laptop?
« Reply #6 on: March 26, 2011, 11:45:02 pm »
Esc - "Key Bindings"

Or /data/init/interface.txt.
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Re: Playing DF on a laptop?
« Reply #7 on: March 26, 2011, 11:45:38 pm »
I use the plus and minus to the left of the backspace.. Also the dwarfpad in my sig has plus and minus buttons
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Re: Playing DF on a laptop?
« Reply #8 on: March 27, 2011, 12:45:23 am »
Quote from: Urist Imiknorris on March 26, 2011, 11:28:04 pm
I remapped the secondary scroll keys to [ ] - = when I played on a netbook. Now I can't play any other way.

This is what I do, too. I'd consider making this part of the default DF configuration; especially if the practical death of the desktop form factor is as imminent as "they" say.
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Re: Playing DF on a laptop?
« Reply #9 on: March 27, 2011, 02:09:23 am »
I bind + - to
")" and "-" on a macbook (recent macbooks don't have the fn keypad anymore).
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Re: Playing DF on a laptop?
« Reply #10 on: March 27, 2011, 06:33:49 am »
IIRC, the LazyNewbPack has laptop bindings you can enable with the menu thingie
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Re: Playing DF on a laptop?
« Reply #11 on: March 27, 2011, 06:48:18 am »
That's just yet another reason never to buy a mac, isn't it?
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Re: Playing DF on a laptop?
« Reply #12 on: March 27, 2011, 06:49:37 am »
Huh. I've got a Samsung and I don't have this problem. Plus and Minus work, in fact, all the keys work.
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Re: Playing DF on a laptop?
« Reply #13 on: March 27, 2011, 08:41:27 am »
I remapped the secondary scrolls to F1-F4 ages ago. The irony is that my current laptop has a numpad but I wouldn't know how to use the 'real' keybindings if my life depended on it after years of F1-F4.
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Re: Playing DF on a laptop?
« Reply #14 on: March 27, 2011, 12:45:20 pm »
I remapped to CTRL+UP / CTRL+DOWN which works pretty well.
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