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Keyboard Shortcuts

Using this mod you can create keyboard shortcuts, activating which will execute some console commands.
For example, you can set a shortcut which will toggle cheats on/off, or which calls 'gamStart()' function, or whatever you can come up with.

Open console (by pressing ~), and enter the following function:
(three dots means it may have more than 3 arguments).

After you enter this function with all arguments, you will be prompted to press and hold keys you want in your shortcut.
Do it, and shortcut will be created!

What are these arguments?

keyCount is a positive integer, which defines how many keys there will be in a shortcut.

type specifies the type of action performed when using the shortcut. It can be one of the following:

• "file" - this means that lua code, contained in the file name, will be executed. Beware, that file name should be in quotes and you should use \\ (two backslashes) for separating folders in the path.
  
• "func" - this means that function with the name name will be called, with arguments that you put into the globals.AddShortcut function after the first three.
  
• "var" - this means that the value of the variable with the name name will be changed somehow. In this case, fourth parameter of the globals.AddShortcut function should be either "cycle", "add" or "subtract". if it is "cycle", all parameters following fourth should be the values through which the variable will be cycled upon using the shortcut. You can "cycle" through one element to just set that variable to fixed value every time. If fourth argument is "add" or "subtract", then fifth argument should be the value which will be added/subtracted to/from the variable upon using the shortcut.

globals.AddShortcut("file",3,"Content\\Config\\commands.lua").
After creating such shortcut, whenever you press those 3 recorded keys, code from the file 'Content\Config\commands.lua' will be executed.

globals.AddShortcut("func",2,"chatSay","Hello there!").
After creating such shortcut, whenever you press those 2 recorded keys, chatSay("Hello there!") will be executed in console.

globals.AddShortcut("var",3,"hud_bShowWeapon","cycle",0,1).
This will be turning on/off rendering of weapon in First-Person.

globals.AddShortcut("var",3,"hud_fCustomHudScale","add",0.1).
This one will be increasing hud_fCustomHudScale by 0.1 on every shortcut press.

globals.RemoveShortcut(keyCount)
This will prompt you to press and hold a combination of keyCount keys, upon doing so it will erase any action associated with this combination.

globals.RemoveAllShortcuts()
Pretty self-explanatory.

globals.ListDefinedShortcuts()
Lists all shortcuts that are set up.

If you have a need to change shortcuts frequently, you can edit the configuration file (Content/Config/Shortcuts.txt) for the shortcuts mod manually.
If you change the config file while the game is running, it will be automatically reloaded. If an error occurs when trying to read the config file, current shortcuts won't be affected and you can proceed to "fix" the config file.
Here is an example of a config file for the reference, it contains all possible command types:

Some combinations of keys can't be registered (e.g. Ctrl+Shift+C). Probably has something to do with more basic game/system shortcuts.