Key-Combination Alt + X

RApophis · Post by **RApophis** » Mon Jun 04, 2007 12:31 pm

Hello.

I have the probem that ScummVM ends when i press Alt + X.
Is this a bug or a feature?

I havn't found this combination in the documentation. For one of the Sierra AGI games i need this combinaton

but the game ends when i press it.

Thanks

Post by **eriktorbjorn** » Mon Jun 04, 2007 12:36 pm

RApophis wrote: I have the probem that ScummVM ends when i press Alt + X.
Is this a bug or a feature? I havn't found this combination in the documentation.

I haven't checked earlier versions of ScummVM, but the README for the development version says:

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    Common&#58;
        Cmd-q                  - Quit &#40;Mac OS X&#41;
        Ctrl-q                 - Quit &#40;other unices including Linux&#41;
        Ctrl-z OR Alt-x        - Quit &#40;other platforms&#41;

RApophis wrote: For one of the Sierra AGI games i need this combinaton but the game ends when i press it.

I'm not familiar enough with the AGI games to guess which one, or what it's used for there.

RApophis · Post by **RApophis** » Mon Jun 04, 2007 12:47 pm

Hi.

Sorry, havn't seen this.
It's for the game "Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards". At the moment ScummVM seems not to override the question-protection at the start of the game, i remember you can override it by pressing Alt + X.
This are realy old questions because they are from the 80th.... (who remembers the 80th

)

Post by **eriktorbjorn** » Mon Jun 04, 2007 1:16 pm

RApophis wrote: This are realy old questions because they are from the 80th.... (who remembers the 80th )

As a workaround, Al Lowe has the answers on his web page, because "they're only good at identifying someone over age 41 now!!"

RApophis · Post by **RApophis** » Mon Jun 04, 2007 1:20 pm

Cool.

Thank you

glokidd · Post by **glokidd** » Mon Jun 04, 2007 7:53 pm

from what i remember the actual override code was ctrl+alt+x.
I used this wayyy too many times in lsl3 back then

i primarily use alt-x for quiting scummvm, perhaps its a leftover habit from playing with the original scumm interpreters way back when.
It be sort of cool to see a "are you sure you want to quit? Y/N" pop up before you quit, but thats really just an uneccisary afterthought

md5 · Post by **md5** » Mon Jun 04, 2007 8:05 pm

Alt-X is captured from SDL itself under Windows, and it triggers ScummVM to exit. That's why this keycode never reaches the engine itself under Windows

However, under Linux, the relevant key combination is Control-Q, so Alt-X works there

TribeHasSpoken · Post by **TribeHasSpoken** » Mon Jun 04, 2007 8:16 pm

It was Alt-X for LSL1 and Ctrl-Alt-X for LSL3.

fingolfin · Post by **fingolfin** » Mon Jun 04, 2007 9:06 pm

glokidd wrote:It be sort of cool to see a "are you sure you want to quit? Y/N" pop up before you quit, but thats really just an uneccisary afterthought

There is actually an (undocumented, I think) "confirm_exit" setting which unfortunately only works in the SCUMM engine.

I'll file a feature request about this, although I am not *too* fond of the feature

.

carloscristo · Post by **carloscristo** » Thu Aug 23, 2007 12:36 am

I found a trick to your (and mine) problem.
The scummVM cares about what keys u r typing rt?
But LSL1 don't!
So... you can press Shift-Alt-X, because in that way, scummVM will not quit, but for LSL1, it don't care if your pressing x or X (x or shift-x, got?)
That's it.. (tested by me, anyway).. hope that helps somebody!

God bless u all!

saulob · Post by **saulob** » Fri Aug 24, 2007 7:39 am

hehe, nice one.
but that's bad not to work on it

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