In a bind, need some help.

Hi all,

I'm new to the Mac world. Just bought my iMac 21 inch a few months back. I'm used to using binds in the Windows environment, but it's not working in the Mac one.

I've followed the directions in the wonderful guide that is posted, but still can't get it to work. This bind is for my Cold Dom Defender, and this is what it looks like currently:

numpad1 "team_select 1$$powexec_name ice shield"
numpad2 "team_select 2$$powexec_name ice shield"
numpad3 "team_select 3$$powexec_name ice shield"
numpad4 "team_select 4$$powexec_name ice shield"
numpad5 "team_select 5$$powexec_name ice shield"
numpad6 "team_select 6$$powexec_name ice shield"
numpad7 "team_select 7$$powexec_name ice shield"
numpad8 "team_select 8$$powexec_name ice shield"
shift+numpad1 "team_select 1$$powexec_name glacial shield"
shift+numpad2 "team_select 2$$powexec_name glacial shield"
shift+numpad3 "team_select 3$$powexec_name glacial shield"
shift+numpad4 "team_select 4$$powexec_name glacial shield"
shift+numpad5 "team_select 5$$powexec_name glacial shield"
shift+numpad6 "team_select 6$$powexec_name glacial shield"
shift+numpad7 "team_select 7$$powexec_name glacial shield"
shift+numpad8 "team_select 8$$powexec_name glacial shield"

I used the TextEdit application in OS X to create the bind file. As you can see, I'd like to be able to just hit a number and apply the shields. The bind says it's loaded, but then I get this error message:

Unknown command: team_select 2$$powexec_name ice shield

Now for whatever reason, it will give the same error message for keys 3-8 as well, but not 1.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

No one out there has any ideas what might be wrong?

This isn't really a Mac specific issue (it's an issue with binds), and I'm not really an expert with binds.

You might want to try to ask the same question on the Technical Issues forum, and try your best to ignore the people who insist it's because you're using the Mac version.

Cuppa,

Thanks. I was thinking about trying that next.

If it's only the first line that is working, it is possible that it is a return character issue in the text file? Have you tried jumbling up the order of the keybinds so numpad2 is first, and seeing if numpad2 works and numpad1 won't?

Glad to have helped a fellow Mac CoHer.

I actually thought the line breaks weren't an issue until I looked back and realized that the bind file *I* use was copied from my PC version of CoH.

Now I'm going to have to try re-saving it in Mac/Unix format and see if CoH still works properly with it. If not, I'll have to update the Mac Guide.

Sorry for the runaround, I saw complex binds and thought I was in over my head (I'm not nearly a binds expert). I didn't think to look at it more simply.