Computer controlled units

[chris h]

Probably left over from the original version way back.

[DRG]

Originally Posted by chris h

Probably left over from the original version way back.

I have to admit that the aswer to that is NO
I dug out a v1 windows version from May 6/ 2006.
Started a save game and presses H
The formation menu appeared and pressing H again DID NOT SWITCH HUMAN CONTROL TO COMPUTER CONTROL

When Andy gets past the health issues he is dealing with ( eye surgery ) he'll have a look at the code
In the meantime I will take a look ON THE OFF CHANCE I might see something obvious. The first thing I will do is start the games with the older EXE's I have saved to see when this started

EDIT sometime between SPww2 v6 and SPmbt v9 ( 2013 - 2015 )this started to be possible to occur

[DRG]

Further info...........
pressing H while in the Fomations menu will change human controled units to computer control
Pressing C while in the Fomations menu will change COMPUTER controled units to HUMAN control

That is in the same block of code with setting waypoints

[DRG]

I did find the code that was causing these issues

The first question that needs answering was why was hot key control given to Computer/Human control. There may be a bigger issue this is connected to..............or it may just be " it seemed like a good idea at the time"

The bottom line now is the code that *seems to be* the cause of this has been located.Disabling it is easy but the question that remains was why it was done in the first place

[Mobhack]

The cure, when I can read the code again in a few weeks, will likely be to disable these hotkeys since its such a rare thing that I have only done 2 or 3 times in the past decade or so, can be left to pressing the buttons with the mouse. Which is how I did it when required, having no idea there were even hotkeys ! - and it was likely me who coded these, the why is buried in the mists of time since I have absolutely no recollection of actually doing that.

[georgesedlak]

New to us too, really neat.