I successfully disabled this behavior, so I wonder what does everything think about it?
On one side, it speeds up playing the game which is what keyboard hotkeys are really supposed to be doing. Being able to queue 10 buildings with only having to move the mouse on the building list side of the screen instead of having to move it back from the button 10 times is a huge difference.
On the other side, there is no visual confirmation - it makes it much harder to follow what's going on for people watching the screen, like Youtube viewers. At least I don't think this is an issue for the player himself -fortunately most hotkeys immediately open a new window or take some other effect so it's unlikely to press a button and not notice it did something unwanted.
We could consider making it optional, but the free option checkboxes are all used up. We'd need to remove an existing setting to add a new one. "Expanding Help" seems a good candidate, I see absolutely no reason why anyone would want to disable help on right clicks - don't need it, don't right click, simple enough. In fact, I tried disabling it and help still showed up so I'm unsure what it's even supposed to be doing.
Either way, this does use up a settings slot, taking it away for a possible more important future addition. So making it mandatory might be a better choice this time.
Edit : unfortunately the modification also removes the "pressed button" animations, which I was hoping to keep, although that also means each time you use the hotkey you save additional precious fractions of seconds - the game isn't animating the button press.
(note for self : $2233B and $1AB37)
On one side, it speeds up playing the game which is what keyboard hotkeys are really supposed to be doing. Being able to queue 10 buildings with only having to move the mouse on the building list side of the screen instead of having to move it back from the button 10 times is a huge difference.
On the other side, there is no visual confirmation - it makes it much harder to follow what's going on for people watching the screen, like Youtube viewers. At least I don't think this is an issue for the player himself -fortunately most hotkeys immediately open a new window or take some other effect so it's unlikely to press a button and not notice it did something unwanted.
We could consider making it optional, but the free option checkboxes are all used up. We'd need to remove an existing setting to add a new one. "Expanding Help" seems a good candidate, I see absolutely no reason why anyone would want to disable help on right clicks - don't need it, don't right click, simple enough. In fact, I tried disabling it and help still showed up so I'm unsure what it's even supposed to be doing.
Either way, this does use up a settings slot, taking it away for a possible more important future addition. So making it mandatory might be a better choice this time.
Edit : unfortunately the modification also removes the "pressed button" animations, which I was hoping to keep, although that also means each time you use the hotkey you save additional precious fractions of seconds - the game isn't animating the button press.
(note for self : $2233B and $1AB37)
