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Vista x64 no Console??

by Matthew Hughes · in Torque Game Builder · 12/08/2008 (6:22 pm) · 9 replies

I installed TGB on my windows Vista x64 laptop equipped with an nVidia 9800M GS

I created a new, blank project, saved my scene and proceeded to execute the project.

Pressing the tilde '~' key results in no console window appearing.

The console does, however, appear when I run the game on my new iMac...

Is this a bug with TGB running under Vista?

Is there any workaround possible aside from opening console.log up in notepad++ and not having the full capability of entering in commands dynamically??
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    Associate Melv May
    #1
    12/09/2008 (7:52 am)
    Very strange. I work with Vista x64 exclusively and don't have any problems across three systems. So no console window appears at all?

    I wonder if it could be that the key-binding isn't working rather than a problem with the console?

    Melv.

    Associate David Montgomery-Blake
    David MontgomeryBlake
    #2
    12/09/2008 (8:21 am)
    I know that a scattered couple of others have posted about this, but I cannot recall where. Make sure none of the files in the directory are read only. Does control-~ bring it up?

    Torque Owner Matthew Hughes
    #3
    12/09/2008 (11:15 am)
    The key bindings are the default, in my commonConfig.xml:

    <ConsoleKey>tilde</ConsoleKey>

    the directory seemed to have some files marked as readOnly, so I modified the entire directory recursively to be read/write

    the console still does not appear with the tilde key, nor ctrl+~

    on a side note, TGE's console does work...

    Associate Melv May
    #4
    12/11/2008 (11:43 am)
    I presume if you do change the binding it still doesn't come up? To be clear, this happens from a fresh install of the game-builder?

    Melv.

    Torque Owner Matthew Hughes
    #5
    12/13/2008 (12:53 am)
    Interesting, changing the binding from: "tilde" to "q" allows the q-key to show the console

    thanks! (why didn't I think about this??)

    yes, it's a fresh install of the game builder

    it is slightly disconcerting that the tilde key hates me so much

    thanks again!

    Associate Melv May
    #6
    12/13/2008 (4:19 am)
    At least we're getting somewhere. :)

    I am still interested in understanding why the tilde key doesn't work. I presume this isn't a keyboard translation thing e.g. when you hit that key in some other app like word-pad you do get the tilde character?

    Melv.

    Associate Joseph Euan
    #7
    12/13/2008 (7:14 am)
    Console don't show up on mine by pressing the tilde key.

    I have to press the " ' " key (next to the 1)

    Yet I do get the "~" up when I press the tilde key

    Torque Owner Matthew Hughes
    #8
    12/13/2008 (10:16 am)
    My regional settings are English & US keyboard

    I do have US International installed, but not currently active (and I find that the forums don't like it if I start using it to type certain characters -- my posts then get truncated)

    TGE's console does come up with the tilde key, so does TGB use a different method for interpreting keystrokes?

    I cannot know since I was too cheap to purchase TGB pro...

    Torque 3D Owner Jason Ravencroft
    #9
    01/08/2009 (8:29 am)
    I've had this same problem under Vista with a laptop (ASUS) and I just moved the key.