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Title: Ground-Egress Logic for Boneheads
Post by: MachNix on May 20, 2017, 12:16:14 PM: Disable bailout option when "End Sortie" is green on the clipboard.

Last night at the end of FSO I was sitting on the runway in my pristine P-40N about to end flight. I started to type something in the text buffer before going to the tower but changed my mind. Instead of tapping the Backspace Key like I wanted to clear the buffer, I was tapping the Enter Key and ended up standing in the middle of the runway holding my gun. :O I did not stick around to find out if my paints were up or down, but my face was definitely red. :o

I cannot think of a reason why someone would rather bailout than accept a successful landing; but if there is, it would be nice to have an intermediate step like opening a textbox that said:

Possible Bonehead Detected at Keyboard!
Are you a bonehead who wants to bail instead of land successfully?
YES/NO (No is the default.)

Clicking YES bails you out.
Clicking NO stops the bailout process.
The NO would be the default in case there are a lot of Enter Key presses still in the keyboard buffer.
:cheers:
Title: Re: Ground-Egress Logic for Boneheads
Post by: Vraciu on May 20, 2017, 12:25:14 PM: Or you can do what I did and remap the bailout key to the ENTER key on the number pad.

Having done what you did more than once I sympathize.
Title: Re: Ground-Egress Logic for Boneheads
Post by: Ack-Ack on May 20, 2017, 12:53:47 PM: Either rebind the bail out key or unbind it. I removed the key command when I first started AH and haven't bailed out in 17 years.
Title: Re: Ground-Egress Logic for Boneheads
Post by: oboe on May 20, 2017, 01:18:37 PM: I've done that more times than I care to admit, both in WarBirds and here. Even in a scenario once.

'Escape' seems like an overwhelmingly logical candidate for key remap here, but what key then makes sense to bring up the clipboard?
Title: Re: Ground-Egress Logic for Boneheads
Post by: caldera on May 20, 2017, 02:52:26 PM: Quote from: Vraciu on May 20, 2017, 12:25:14 PM
Or you can do what I did and remap the bailout key to the ENTER key on the number pad.

Having done what you did more than once I sympathize.

That's the same key mine is programmed to.
Title: Re: Ground-Egress Logic for Boneheads
Post by: FLS on May 20, 2017, 03:48:57 PM: Ctrl-Enter is another good alternative for "Enter"x3.
Title: Re: Ground-Egress Logic for Boneheads
Post by: Vraciu on May 20, 2017, 04:46:22 PM: Quote from: FLS on May 20, 2017, 03:48:57 PM
Ctrl-Enter is another good alternative for "Enter"x3.

Requires two fingers. Not easy to do knife edge above the trees with one wing. Lol
Title: Re: Ground-Egress Logic for Boneheads
Post by: bozon on May 21, 2017, 04:00:03 AM: wait what?! we can bail out in this game?! :eek:
Title: Re: Ground-Egress Logic for Boneheads
Post by: Mongoose on May 21, 2017, 05:40:44 PM: When I first started, way back in Warbirds, I was in the middle of a fight when my cat walked across my keyboard. Suddenly I was out of my plane.

I learned to keep the cat away from my keyboard.