QZ Easy Menus : IV

» Wed Mar 09, 2011 8:23 am

I love this mod, but I think it has the potential to be even better. Here some of my ideas:

- The Exit Key should also work like TAB in vanilla to get completely out of the journal and not just the menus like it is at the moment.
- With the Journal Quick Keys you should not only be able to enter a specific sub-tab, you should be able to get out of it too. That`s the default scheme for games: you press "M" to see the map, you push "M" again to get back to the world. At the moment you enter a sub-tab with a Quick Key and have to press TAB to get back to the game.
- There should be an ability to override the vanilla F1-F4 controls and you should be able to assign F1-F12 with Journal Quick Keys. With QZ Easy Menus at least the F1-F4 should be obsolete. Think about having Journal Quick Keys for almost every tab and sub-tab of the journal, hotkeyed to F1-F12 and being able to quickly access them without having to use your mouse anymore to click through all the tabs. This way you could get rid of the annoying "consolish" control of the UI.
- Alternatively there would a button to switch between single sub tabs. You could leave the vanilla F1-F4 controls, but switch nicely through the sub-tabs without having to use your mouse.

So what do you think? If you like my ideas, I`m gonna write KyoParadox and ask him, if he would like to implement these improvements.

» Wed Mar 09, 2011 6:00 am

Being able to remap the F keys to specific menu locations would be pretty cool. I would think that with OBSE, that could be done fairly easily....... along with the functionality of completely closing the menu by tapping the key again.

I like it.

» Wed Mar 09, 2011 9:42 am

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Actually I made a small (OBSE) plugin that lets you remap (or disable) the F1-F4 keys. Been meaning to make a proper release out of it though.

» Wed Mar 09, 2011 8:33 am

I love this mod, but I think it has the potential to be even better. Here some of my ideas:

- With the Journal Quick Keys you should not only be able to enter a specific sub-tab, you should be able to get out of it too. That`s the default scheme for games: you press "M" to see the map, you push "M" again to get back to the world. At the moment you enter a sub-tab with a Quick Key and have to press TAB to get back to the game.

I posted this on TESNexus awhile back.

- There should be an ability to override the vanilla F1-F4 controls and you should be able to assign F1-F12 with Journal Quick Keys. With QZ Easy Menus at least the F1-F4 should be obsolete. Think about having Journal Quick Keys for almost every tab and sub-tab of the journal, hotkeyed to F1-F12 and being able to quickly access them without having to use your mouse anymore to click through all the tabs. This way you could get rid of the annoying "consolish" control of the UI.

This would rock. Assigning them to the function keys would make it much more compatible with other mods that use hotkeys as well, like MMO.

» Tue Mar 08, 2011 11:57 pm

I posted this on TESNexus awhile back.

Yes, I think I read that in the comment section.

» Wed Mar 09, 2011 6:17 am

Actually I made a small (OBSE) plugin that lets you remap (or disable) the F1-F4 keys. Been meaning to make a proper release out of it though.

Good to hear. What do you think of my other suggestions? Not possible?