Pausing on a laptop

[littlekubo]

there are no Pause, Insert, Home, etc. buttons on MacBook Pro... playing on W7 in bootcamp...

 

[Caesar_Augustus]

Actually, some time ago, a player (Packman) on the Paradox Forums developed a nice little app called keymapper (v. 1.4, 1.5 and 1.6) that very neatly re-mapped the keyboard, so that in pre-AoD days, you could yourself use it to pause on the more comfortable space bar: start it, "remap", then "set" and (most important!) minimize it on the tray while playing HoI II. Just found it in my old game archives (keymapper v1.6) and am very happy to report that it works for DH! Link provided:

 

[unmerged(28057)]

Thanks Caesar_Augustus.

 

[misterbean]

fn+pgup on my Toshiba laptop

 

[eleinvisible]

Yeah, the ideal solution would be to add the Space bar as pause, in addition to the standard pause key. I hate having to press Fn+Insert just to pause.

 

[kodiak491]

Actually, some time ago, a player (Packman) on the Paradox Forums developed a nice little app called keymapper (v. 1.4, 1.5 and 1.6) that very neatly re-mapped the keyboard, so that in pre-AoD days, you could yourself use it to pause on the more comfortable space bar: start it, "remap", then "set" and (most important!) minimize it on the tray while playing HoI II. Just found it in my old game archives (keymapper v1.6) and am very happy to report that it works for DH! Link provided:

Unfortunately some laptops, like my new Dell have no pause functionality at all, not just a missing button. I have tried many key remappers and they all depend upon the pause functionality being active within windows. Dell deactivates it for some reason.

 

[xtfoster]

Why? I love being able to quick deploy/go to...

Ditto, but I don't get to make those choices (or the ones about fictitious casualty stats).

 

[T.j. Arnold]

All Clausewitz games have it. But the Europa Engine games like DH don't have it.

Arsenal of Democracy, Iron Cross, Hearts of Iron III all had it.

 

[eleinvisible]

...Hearts of Iron III all had it.

Which is a Clausewitz game... But yes, I'd very much like this feature.

 

[unmerged(196754)]

Suppose I'll have to wait for the devs to implement such things. that .exe won't work on my computer, AVG keeps nipping it in the bud so I can't use it

 

[mickey_megabyte]

this keymapper seems to be a bit hit-and-miss on my windows 7 x64 sp1 system.

sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.

if i right-click on the notification (system tray) icon, i see 'script paused', and i can't seem to unpause it.

lets hope the patch comes soon that will make the space bar pause in-game, without having to set up third-party utilities.

this is such a basic thing...and makes the game frustrating to play.

it would also be nice to be able to map all the keys from within game - especially WASD to scroll the map - or even give us a text file that we could modify ourselves.

so many other things are moddable - how about the controls??

sorry that my first post on this sub-forum has to be negative, but that's the way it is

 

[elbasto]

Hi.

It's been a long time since I visited the forums but I stumbled into this post and I think I have a quick solution for this problem.

First, download and install this program: http://www.autohotkey.com/

Second, use the following code in order to use the space bar as the pause button:

#SingleInstance force ;force a single instance 
;#HotkeyInterval 0 ;disable the warning dialog if hotkeys spamfire 
#InstallKeybdHook ;force the keyboard hook (might be faster)
#UseHook On ;might increase responsiveness of hotkeys 
;#MaxThreads 20 ;20 of max 20 threads (default is 10)
;SetBatchLines, -1 ;makes the script run at max speed 
SetKeyDelay , -1, -1 ;faster response (no delay after or during press)
SetMouseDelay , -1, -1 ;faster response (no delay after or during click)
Thread, Interrupt, -1, -1 ;uses noninterruptable threads


space:: send, {pause}

testactive:
ifWinNotExist, %window_class%
{
ExitApp
}

Third, run Darkest Hour.

The program it's very easy to use and quite intuitive, you'll see a icon on your task bar while it's running which allows you to "pause" the functioning of the program.

Let me know if it worked.

 

[mickey_megabyte]

thanks for trying to help.

i really don't want to have to download and install extra software.

i'll guess i'll have to wait for the proper patch to come out...

i'm a bit upset because i've just had to kill/purge guderian - i've grown to like the old prussian, as i've nearly finished reading panzer leader.

i'll have another go at the game tomorrow. might be in a better mood then.