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Title: Please make the "Global Radio 5" a toggle button.
Post by: Jazz1 on April 13, 2008, 06:47:46 PM
If the "Global Radio 5" button were set up as a toggle, instead of an on only, it would make the game much nicer by being able to bring it up and down quickly and not having to fumble around for the mouse to highlight the text box, then hit enter to get it off the screen.  This has been brought up before, but I don't remember any comments from AH.
Title: Re: Please make the "Global Radio 5" a toggle button.
Post by: angelsandair on April 13, 2008, 07:11:30 PM
why dont you just do the .radio 5 command. or am I just reading this wrong?
Title: Re: Please make the "Global Radio 5" a toggle button.
Post by: SD67 on April 14, 2008, 05:02:32 AM
I think you're reading it incorrectly :)
What Jazz is asking is:
You know how you can use / for radio channel 1, <shift>/ for radio 2, <ctrl>/ for radio 3 and <alt>/ for radio 4?
Why can we not have a similar keyboard shortcut for the VOX radio channel (Channel V)
Title: Re: Please make the "Global Radio 5" a toggle button.
Post by: Larry on April 14, 2008, 05:30:38 AM
VOX ch is T and range is F12.
Title: Re: Please make the "Global Radio 5" a toggle button.
Post by: Lusche on April 14, 2008, 06:26:01 AM
VOX ch is T and range is F12.

VOX is not what he's talking about ;)
It's the text fuction of that tunable voice channel. You can type there like on any other radio.

But there is a workaround: You can tune any of that other radio channels to the same frequency your V channel has, i.e. "Squad", "Mission", "167" or whatever.
For example, you could have
Radio 1 - Country
Radio 2 - Room
Radio 3- CH200
Radio 4 - Squad
Radio 5(V) - Squad
Title: Re: Please make the "Global Radio 5" a toggle button.
Post by: SD67 on April 14, 2008, 07:18:33 AM
I believe more folk have missed the point of the request, and I too may be misunderstanding what is being asked, but my gist of this is.
If you happen to have all other channels busy say
1:200 2:country 3:room 4:squad and V: mission
It would be handy to be able to hotkey directly to channel V to type in the text buffer rather than vox for clarity without having to:
bring up radio bar, MANUALLY (with mouse) select the channel V and then type.
Title: Re: Please make the "Global Radio 5" a toggle button.
Post by: Ghosth on April 14, 2008, 07:41:08 AM
Just have to map it.

I type on my vox channel all the time. I set mine I believe to shift "  for the hotkey.
Its possible to map it, but it does not come mapped as default. You have to go in and do it.
Title: Re: Please make the "Global Radio 5" a toggle button.
Post by: chase4 on April 14, 2008, 07:52:28 AM
I have any vox channels set to radio number three, I can speak If I want but I have a channel set aside for vox typing
Title: Re: Please make the "Global Radio 5" a toggle button.
Post by: Hazard69 on April 14, 2008, 09:04:52 AM
I usually tune channel 4 to same channel as vox. That solves it 4 me.

Just have to map it.

I type on my vox channel all the time. I set mine I believe to shift "  for the hotkey.
Its possible to map it, but it does not come mapped as default. You have to go in and do it.

Didn't know that. Will look it up. :aok Hmmm....now what whining to tune radio 4 to? :D :lol
Title: Re: Please make the "Global Radio 5" a toggle button.
Post by: Easyscor on April 14, 2008, 09:05:55 AM
Chanel 5 text is already available with the Shift+F12 key combination as the default.
Title: Re: Please make the "Global Radio 5" a toggle button.
Post by: Spikes on April 14, 2008, 09:10:45 AM
I tune channel 2 to the VOX number...
Title: Re: Please make the "Global Radio 5" a toggle button.
Post by: Easyscor on April 14, 2008, 09:19:16 AM
I tune channel 2 to the VOX number...
The point of this thread seemed to be that he wanted 5 text channels, so using channel two doesn't' help him, and it's a waste since the game already has the ability to access channel 5 text using the keyboard as I stated above. Maybe you didn't see the post while you were composing yours?
Title: Re: Please make the "Global Radio 5" a toggle button.
Post by: Jazz1 on December 01, 2009, 02:31:11 AM
My apologies for not being able to explain myself in my original post.  I currently have my radio selection mapped to a button on my throttle.  When I press it the radio display comes up on screen, along with the box for typing.  I would like to be able to press the same button again and have that display go away. Currently the only way I know of to get rid of it is to use my mouse to get the cursor blinking again in the typing window and press enter.  It would be much more convenient if "Radio 1, 2, 3, 4, 5" buttons were "toggles" instead of "on" only.  Hope that clears it up.
Title: Re: Please make the "Global Radio 5" a toggle button.
Post by: Lusche on December 01, 2009, 02:34:19 AM
  Hope that clears it up.

After 1.5 years?  :rolleyes:
Title: Re: Please make the "Global Radio 5" a toggle button.
Post by: kvuo75 on December 01, 2009, 08:47:35 AM
you can type on radio 5.. its shift \ by default.



that is shift + backslash
Title: Re: Please make the "Global Radio 5" a toggle button.
Post by: ImADot on December 01, 2009, 01:01:34 PM
After 1.5 years?  :rolleyes:

Yeah, no kidding.

you can type on radio 5.. its shift \ by default.



that is shift + backslash


Still missing the point.

The OP has his J/S button set to pop open the text buffer.  But it won't go away unless you activate it and hit enter (whether you type anything or not).  Sounds like he wants to never touch the keyboard - so what's the point of bringing up the text buffer?  :P
Title: Re: Please make the "Global Radio 5" a toggle button.
Post by: hitech on December 01, 2009, 01:51:13 PM
The reason would be to see the voice list box that comes up with the radio bar. But I am not really sure why this would be a speed critical thing.

HiTech
Title: Re: Please make the "Global Radio 5" a toggle button.
Post by: kvuo75 on December 02, 2009, 08:41:25 AM
Yeah, no kidding.

Still missing the point.

The OP has his J/S button set to pop open the text buffer.  But it won't go away unless you activate it and hit enter (whether you type anything or not).  Sounds like he wants to never touch the keyboard - so what's the point of bringing up the text buffer?  :P

my bad, I was responding to someone else in the thread that seemed unaware of shift \ and forgot to use "quote"