= and - for zooming is awkward on other keyboard layouts
In Spanish keyboard = is actually shift-0 (and there's no = key), which makes the game unplayable unless you get to change the keymap or your keyboard layout (which you can't unless you've already done the tutorial).
+ and - is no better, since + is shift-= in EN layout (and you can't press shift-= in ES, where there's no = key).
Possible solutions:
- Using a layout agnostic combination (like
ctrl-a/z). - Dirty but effective.
- Does not solve the underlying problem (there's not way to bind
=in ES layout... unlessshift-0is possible?) - Using LÖVE's Scancodes.
- Requires LÖVE 0.9.2.
- Does not solve the underlying problem (the player would have to
definekeys by scancodes which does not really map physically to their keyboard). - Using text input events.
- [...] you can't get modifiers on their own from it, only the final symbols that were generated.
Activity
I don't really like the Scancodes idea.
For now I'd go with the simplest solution (agnostic combination) since it would still allow the user to remap to a combination suitable for their layout (and work as expected).
Using text input events would be weird: mapping
ctrl-=would be the same as mapping text input=(=in EN,shift-0in ES) and modifierctrl(but then you couldn't map, for example,ctrl-shift-0in ES layout). And you can't catch specific keys (like keypad keys, F keys, cursors...) It might require two different ways to bind (by key or by text input) which would add to the confusion.Tough one.
Edited by username-removed-369490Milestone changed to %wishlist
Submitted documentation update as https://gitlab.com/technomancy/bussard/merge_requests/27.
