Keybinding issues on non-QWERTY keyboard

[SamantazFox]

It doesn't respect the OS keybinding, for instance on AZERTY, undo is ctrl+W.

This also makes the F1 help totally useless for non-QWERTY users.

[LBPHacker]

@jacob1

[jacob1]

This is intentional. It is annoying that the help text is wrong though.

TPT has nearly every single key on the keyboard mapped to something, letters and special characters. It also has ctrl+key or shift+key for a lot of keys mapped too. On many layouts, you start running into issues with special characters if they don't have their own keys. For example, on US layout [ and ] change the brush shape, then we have shift+[ ] and ctrl+[ ] to change just the width and height. This would not work on any keyboard layout where [ and ] don't have their own keys, because if you already need to press shift to use those keys, you can't have every shortcut.

For an actual example of this, see this forum post https://tpt.io/.307621 . On some layouts, [ and ] were actually not working at all, because it came in as a shift+8 and shift+9.

So we use sdl scancodes to get the position of the key that was pressed, and do actions based on the position, and not the actual character written on that key. This allows nearly every layout to use nearly every shortcut. TPT has been this way from the beginning (with the exception of that bug I caused), and generally people are fine with this.

[SamantazFox]

Oh, okay, thanks for the quick reply !

Is an option menu for keybindings possible?

[LBPHacker]

We actually have a (now defunct) PR open for a bit of UI that lets you edit keybindings. It ended up being too big of a changeset for the contributor to properly plan out and for us to easily integrate, so we postponed merging it indefinitely. It's currently not a huge priority, but either that or some passive help dialog that just lists keybindings will definitely be added to the game at some point. I guess I'll just keep this issue open until that happens.