Author Topic: Can't seem to decrease number of line place units  (Read 805 times)

Offline DrTall

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Can't seem to decrease number of line place units
« on: July 12, 2012, 11:47:54 pm »
Hello,

The new line place feature seems cool! But I am struggling to decrease the number of units in the placement. Left clicking to increase works just fine, but right clicking to decrease dismisses the line place dialog and leaves me with an empty selection. It also seems to remember the number of units across line place attempts, so I don't see a way to reduce the number. Any ideas?

Thanks,
Sean

Offline keith.lamothe

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Re: Can't seem to decrease number of line place units
« Reply #1 on: July 12, 2012, 11:55:06 pm »
Yea, it was my bad; I'm in the middle of some hairy expansion work, but here's the workaround I told someone else who ran into this:

Sorry, bug; I saw it while I was working on it too and meant to fix it but didn't.

A workaround for the time being:
1) Go to Settings
2) Click the View Controls button
3) Click the Context Menu Keys tab
4) From the dropdown pick... um, another bug ;)  The one that starts with "MISSING LOCALIZATION" ;)  It's just a missing string, no harm to the function.
5) On the "Line Place: Decrease Units To Place" line click the Edit button and define a key you want to press to decrement the count.  I suggest Alpha1 or something like that but in general this keybind can only fire when the line-place context menu is actually visible so don't worry about it getting in the way of other stuff.  I don't think the *5 and *10 modifiers work with it right now but you could get back down to 175 that way.
6) Save all that, then get back to the game, get to the line-place menu and use the key you just defined when you need to decrement the count.

Sorry about the sloppiness there, I'd gotten focused on getting the part I was thinking about working and missed some stuff ;)
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Offline DrTall

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Re: Can't seem to decrease number of line place units
« Reply #2 on: July 13, 2012, 12:08:36 am »
Cool thanks for the workaround!