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[King DZA]

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This might be a stupid question, but I've never seen anything about it before. When pressing ctrl+s, this little bar comes up that allows you to enter a string of text into it, and I'd like to know what it does before I go screwing around with it.

[Trapezohedron]

If I recall, that's the macro feature. Ctrl+S saves your current macro, whatever that might be, whether you activated it or not. The record options are on separate buttons, but I forgot which one is which.

[NecroRebel]

If you hit ctrl-r, the game will record your key presses until you hit ctrl-r again. This creates a macro that you can play back with ctrl-p. Ctrl-s allows you to save the currently-active macro, and ctrl-l allows you to load a saved macro as the current macro (so you can play it back with ctrl-p).

These are in fact quite useful and make many functions quite a bit faster and easier than they otherwise would be. I've got macros to queue a full set of steel armor at the manager, which would otherwise take close to 100 keystroke, another to queue 100 rock blocks, one to queue the makings of a green glass pump, one for selecting everything on one z-level of the map, one to select a whole page on the "bring items to depot" screeen (also useful for on the trade screen itself), and others that I don't use so often.

[King DZA]

Hmm, this new found feature intrigues me...I'll have to play around with it sometime.

Many thanks for the info.

[Ifeno]

profiled for later reference

[Kogut]

It may also be used to record designations of room allowing you to reuse in this/next forts.

[Loud Whispers]

Oh this is just awesome.

[Nameless Archon]

And suddenly, circular fortress rooms were made easier.

What are the limitations of the macro with respect to keypresses, etc? How much can you get out of a single macro?

[i2amroy]

I don't believe that there is any limit to the amount of keystrokes it can hold in one macro. You will want to go into the macro file and remove unnecessary meanings from each keystroke to speed up any saved macros however.