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My console is whacky

by Tony Dormanesh · in Torque X 2D · 11/29/2011 (5:06 pm) · 2 replies

At first I thought it wasn't showing up at all, because nothing happens if I press "~"...

If I start a fresh project, only (Ctrl + ~) brings up the console.. but only in the editor, and it fills the entire editor window, I can't resize it at all. But the worst part is it will not appear while running the game.

Do I need some line of script to activate it?

About the author

Always working for "The Man" and always seem to be part of downsizing. Looking to do stuff on my own now.


#1
11/30/2011 (12:11 pm)
I don't know if it's the same in TorqueX2D, but that being said, I was having the same problem with Torque2D on my laptop. I could not get the console to come up with ~.

If you edit the commonConfig.xml for your game (located in GameName/Common), you can change the line for <ConsoleKey></ConsoleKey> to whatever you want. I ended up using home.
#2
12/01/2011 (9:59 am)
Cool, that worked! Thanks!

Now that it works, I see that the console window can only be placed on the game screen. There must be a way I can detach the window from the game screen, so I can watch the game and console in 2 separate windows, not blocking each other?