Pressing space bar to pause?

Raventhefuhrer · Jan 2, 2013

Hello,

I often play on the faster game speeds during the interwar years. By default it appears that there is not hotkey to pause the game that I am aware of. This can be pretty annoying because it means I need to try and click the little date-bar to pause the game when something pops up that requires my attention. So I was wondering if there was any way to make it so the space bar pauses the game, or if there was some other hotkey to pause that I didn't know of, or some other solution?

Tovmachnyk · Jan 2, 2013

Press "pause break" on the top right hand corner of your keyboard.

Duke of Awesome · Jan 2, 2013

Go to your Darkest Hour folder, go to config, then open the buttons folder in notepad or something. Use control-f and then type in "pause" and you'll find the correct paragraph, I suppose you could call it. It looks like this:

Code:

press = {
	id = "BUTTON_PAUSE"
	bitmap = "empty.bmp"
	background = "pause_button.bmp"
	lower = "BUTTON_0050"
	upper = ""
	}

You're going to want to put in

Code:

shortcut = "space"

Just like that in between background and lower. It should look like this:

Code:

press = {
	id = "BUTTON_PAUSE"
	bitmap = "empty.bmp"
	background = "pause_button.bmp"
	shortcut = "space"
	lower = "BUTTON_0050"
	upper = ""
	}

Be warned, if want to type anything in game, such as changing a unit name or talking in multiplayer, pressing the space button will pause/unpause the game. Also, be sure to make a copy of your buttons file before you touch anything, in case something goes wrong.

Raventhefuhrer · Jan 2, 2013

Thanks for the responses, they are a great help. I was able to find the required text document and edit it. I've taken the warning to heart though, so I won't use 'space' as my pause button.

I tried to set it instead to my middle mouse button, using 'shortcut = "middle_mouse" ' but that didn't work, do you have any ideas for what the correct input would be?

Duke of Awesome · Jan 2, 2013

Sorry, I don't.

seattle · Jan 2, 2013

I always use space to pause. Fortunately it's simple to mod.

Kung Zog · Jan 2, 2013

Raventhefuhrer said:
Thanks for the responses, they are a great help. I was able to find the required text document and edit it. I've taken the warning to heart though, so I won't use 'space' as my pause button.

I tried to set it instead to my middle mouse button, using 'shortcut = "middle_mouse" ' but that didn't work, do you have any ideas for what the correct input would be?

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