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Feature suggestion: highlighting the focused button

Open lechaz79 opened this issue 11 months ago • 3 comments

Pressing space to trigger a default action, like clicking for a credit or pressing a button in the current prompt, is a very useful and convenient feature I’ve discovered only recently. I think it would be better to highlight the action/button assigned to space. There are two reasons for that:

  1. I’d have discovered the use of the space bar much earlier. If a button is highlighted, a new user will naturally understand that pressing a key is possible.
  2. During your turn and outside of runs, the default action when pressing the space bar is supposed to be clicking for credits. But sometimes, for some reasons, it happens that the actual selected action is drawing a card or something else. Yesterday, I wanted to use al the clicks of my turn to get 3 credits, and I ended up with 3 more cards in my hand, of which I had to discard two!

MTG Arena works in a similar way, highlighting the button that will be triggered if you press space.

I don’t know if it’s easy to implement this feature, but I think it would be helpful.

lechaz79 avatar Mar 07 '24 06:03 lechaz79

I wasn't aware this was a feature (maybe somebody else can correct me here). I believe in (most) web browsers, the space bar will activate whatever the selected context is, so I assume it's that rather than any explicit feature of ours.

NBKelly avatar Mar 14 '24 19:03 NBKelly

@NBKelly I believe on the help page, it says that the space bar will activate the "default action".

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Wikignometry avatar Jul 17 '24 07:07 Wikignometry

Neat. Genuinely had no clue.

Sooner or later I'll figure this one out.

NBKelly avatar Jul 17 '24 23:07 NBKelly