Mod for city view keyboard shortcuts?

[spyrule]

Hey guys,

I like to play huge city maps, and the only annoyance that I have is when I want to manage my purchase queues, and buying tiles around a city.

If you have 50+ cities, this can be an enormous amount of repeat clicking that is quite annoying to have to do.

Is there a plugin that would allow for keyboard shortcuts to bring up the purchase/build windows, and then another shortcut to click the "buy a tile" button (especially useful if your buying a bunch of tiles on a new city later in the game, and you want to "grab" certain tiles without waiting for natural expansion).

Any help, suggestions is appreciated!

Spyrule

 

[Nutty]

Well, it involves replacing CityView.lua, which will make it incompatible with other mods that do so... but it's pretty easy to do. I assume you use BNW; otherwise it needs to be changed slightly.

I could make the hotkeys act as toggles, and change it back to the normal city view on a second keypress. However, the Escape key does that consistently, so I don't know if it matters to you.

B: Buy a plot
M: Production menu
P: Purchase menu
Q: Enable production queue

That reminds me... I added the queue button as an afterthought, but I didn't test it yet. [EDIT: Apparently the production menu and queue aren't working right.] [EDIT #2: Fixed the production menu (I was using the wrong function), and removed the queue button. If you must have it, let me know and I'll see if I can figure it out.]

If you'd like to change the keys used, you'll find the function that detects keypresses at line 100. Also note that the last four three hotkeys of that function [lines 126-134] are the only thing I added, so if you have another mod that changes CityView.lua, you can easily add that section of the file to that mod.