In a bind, need some help.


buddhabear

 

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Hi all,

I tried posting this in the Mac forum, but was directed to come over here and ask, so here goes.

I recently bought an iMac and currently play City on it. I needed to create a bind for my new Cold Dom Defender I just rolled up. I'm used to using binds in a Windows environment, so I figured it would be the same for the Mac. However, I've run into some trouble. This is the bind I've tried to load:

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 on my numpad and apply the shields. The bind says it's loaded, but then I get this error message when I try to use it:

Unknown command: team_select 2$$powexec_name ice shield

Any help would be greatly appreciated!


 

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Originally Posted by buddhabear View Post
Unknown command: team_select 2$$powexec_name ice shield
The only thing I can think here is that it's treating the entire line as a single command and ignoring the $$, so I'm wondering if that text program is using a special version of the $ that the game is not recognizing?


 

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The TextEdit program in Mac doesn't save the binds as a .txt file, but rather a .rtf file. I was planning on trying to find a program that can just save as a .txt(maybe Open Office)and see if that would do the trick.


 

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Originally Posted by buddhabear View Post
The TextEdit program in Mac doesn't save the binds as a .txt file, but rather a .rtf file. I was planning on trying to find a program that can just save as a .txt(maybe Open Office)and see if that would do the trick.
You can force TextEdit to save as "plain text":

http://guides.macrumors.com/TextEdit

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By default, TextEdit saves documents in rich text format. This is unsuitable for some situations, such as when creating a hand-coded html file. As a solution, a document can be converted to plain text by choosing Format > Make Plain Text. Alternatively, you can set TextEdit to create all new documents as plain text by setting the new document format to "Plain Text" in the preferences.


 

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Thanks for the tip sevoo.