Fixation Caps Lock

[Andree]

I use the in game button Caps Lock, as the move to the front, but it does not work like a normal button, and uses fixation, unlike other games. Please fix it in future versions.

[dbX]

ispravte

This means fix.

[Gig]

Uhm... if you push it, it actually turns on/off the caps lock in OS (and in console), and
- if used for a command like "+zoom", it toggles between zoom mode on and off each time you press it (press once to enable, press again to disable).
- if used for a command like "say Hi!", it says the word once every TWO press (it does not say it continously; it only says it when the capslock light goes on). Same for "weapon 1" command: it switches to the gauntlet once every two times you press the key.

How should this behaviour change? It should still be possible to enable and disable caps lock by pressing it.
Is this an engine thing that should be proposed to ioquake3 staff?

[sago007]

Is this an engine thing that should be proposed to ioquake3 staff?

It is a SDL thing. Newer versions of SDL allows the environment SDL_DISABLE_LOCK_KEYS to be set to "1" to allow caps-lock and num-lock to be used as keys. Debian uses a modified version of SDL that always allows Caps-lock.

I guess one could add

Code:

setenv("SDL_DISABLE_LOCK_KEYS","1",0 /*allow user provided value*/);

before SDL_Init() in the engine to make this the default behavior.