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Unable to persist Control key as a binding

Mar 03, 2009 womble link
I want to bind the right control key to the decelerate action, however when I attempt to do so, a small square is displayed in the configuration window, as well as in the output of /print 3.

I am able to use the control key as a decelerate button in the game, but when I quit the binding is lost and I have to re-configure it each time I start the game.

Whenever the game attempts to render this control character, the following appears in errors.log:

CTextDraw warning: trying to display character 4294967268 ('ä')
Mar 03, 2009 raybondo link
Thanks. It seems to be only a problem on AMD64. There's probably some 32-64bit translation bug on our part.
Mar 06, 2009 oddjobbob link
womble>>
I was having a similar difficulty getting changes to my keyboard layout to persist after quitting VO. I found that if I made the changes one at a time and quit out of VO to my computer's desktop after each change the changes held.

I use an Apple MacBook Pro.

Aloha,
ojb
Mar 10, 2009 womble link
Hi oddjobbob,

I've got another bug about vendetta crashing on exit and not saving settings. This is a bug specific to the use of the control key, and it's not solved by changing one key and then exiting.
Apr 18, 2009 womble link
Any update on this bug? Ctrl still looks like a box in my control list.
Apr 18, 2009 raybondo link
Oh I'm sorry. I completely forgot about this. I'll fix it this week.

Hmm. Left Ctrl works on our amd64 machine but right Ctrl does the box thing.

Can you please see if left Ctrl works?
Apr 18, 2009 womble link
Yep, left control is OK (comes up as "Ctrl"), only right control is boxy.
Apr 18, 2009 mr_spuck link
Alt seems to do the same thing.