Keyboard Shortcut for Petza "Mate Two Pets" Comman

Andi @ Cirrutopia · Post by **Andi @ Cirrutopia** » Wed Oct 31, 2012 4:04 pm

Is there a way? I was actually working on a non-inbred dali project yesterday and my right wrist actually hurts from having to go to the top of the screen, click "petza" and then click "mate two pets" on the drop-down menu.

I'll take some risks and mess with some things if this is possible... anyone know how to make it happen?

And while I'm at it, let's say I have one male and twelve females out. Is there any way to select "mate two pets" and breed to all the females at once? You can't shift-select/control-select on this menu, so I'm thinking no... but it never hurt to ask!

Icebox · Post by **Icebox** » Wed Oct 31, 2012 7:58 pm

I have nothing constructive to say, but omg I've been wishing for this for years. ;-; I'd actually injured my wrist (repetitive motion) by the time I finished my spotless trotter line; it's part of the reason for the two year gap between progress. Bleh! (I didn't realize until after the damage was already done, to anyone who might be wondering why I did that to myself.)

Things I've found to help: using the playpen and putting the carrying case quite close to the top, under the 'petza' menu. Minimum movement seems to lessen wrist strain. The obvious taking breaks also helps. Take it slow~ I personally do four puppies at once, as it's all I can handle on my wrist. These are more environmental, but a wrist brace of some sort (they make gloves etc specifically designed for repetitive motions) and having the mouse level with or a little lower than your elbow might also relieve a little.

Anyway, wtb keyboard shortcuts! Am very interested in whatever comes of this.

WARHORSE · Post by **WARHORSE** » Wed Oct 31, 2012 8:04 pm

hahahahaha how wierd I was just wondering the same thing. I hope someone has an answer to this

Andi @ Cirrutopia · Post by **Andi @ Cirrutopia** » Wed Oct 31, 2012 10:02 pm

Icebox, it's so funny you should reply because I almost mentioned you in the initial post! I totally blame you for this. I saw your nib spotless Dalis and I needed some. All I got was a sore wrist!

But seriously... I do everything the same... The playpen, the positioning of the door!

Dotty · Post by **Dotty** » Tue Jan 29, 2013 5:18 pm

Sooo I was totally stalking this board, hence the massive bump.

However.
I wrote an autohotkey script that will go into the petza menu, select mate two petz, and hit the okay button.
Soo if you guys want it here it iiiis...
I think the .exe can run without autohotkey installed. (Don't really know though because I've never done this before... so let me know!)
But if you don't have/want it (it's free), use that.

http://sdrv.ms/Yg7Sv2

If you have trouble with the .exe, let me know and I'll put up the script. You'll just have to get autohotkey haha...

Run the .exe... then all you do is press windows key + m...
And voila. :)
Let me know if it doesn't work for you...
askdfj' d I just realized that I only have it really working for p4. because it recognizes the p4 window. I'll change that before tonight. BUT IF YOU DON'T HAVE P4. It won't run. Oops. :P

Eventually I want to expand on it so that you can enter how many petz you're looking to breed, enter the names of the males and of the females, and as long as you have those petz out it will breed them.
HOWEVER.
This was just a quick little tool. YAY PROCRASTINATION.
okay back to real work nowww...

Dew · Post by **Dew** » Tue Jan 29, 2013 6:36 pm

Omg

Omg

Omg

YES

You amaze me

Dotty · Post by **Dotty** » Tue Jan 29, 2013 6:38 pm

Please say it works, please say it works, please say it works, please say it works, please say it works, please say it works, please say it works?

Hopefully I'll make it pretty within the next few weeks. Whenever I don't want to do homework haha. :)

CatCreature · Post by **CatCreature** » Tue Jan 29, 2013 9:01 pm

How do you just...do that? That's amazing!! xDDD

I tried it, it works for me!!

So cool!!

Dotty · Post by **Dotty** » Tue Jan 29, 2013 9:07 pm

MAGIC.
Haha, learned a few things while I was away. ;) It's really not that hard, ahk uses a very... bare bones language.
And yayy, I'm glad. I was worried... because, I'd never turned an ahk file to an exe.
BUT YAY. :D

Edit:
Can someone screenshot their p3 and p5 games for me? I need to know what the menus look like...
Thanks:)

Andi @ Cirrutopia · Post by **Andi @ Cirrutopia** » Wed Jan 30, 2013 12:44 am

Dotty wrote:Please say it works, please say it works, please say it works, please say it works, please say it works, please say it works, please say it works?

This is where I'm at right now.

EDIT: Hmm, it didn't seem to work. My petz game opened and... no petza?

EDIT II: Okay, this time Petza's running, but the script does nothing.

Confused.

EDIT III: OMG WORKING THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU

CatCreature · Post by **CatCreature** » Wed Jan 30, 2013 4:13 am

Dotty wrote:MAGIC.
Haha, learned a few things while I was away. It's really not that hard, ahk uses a very... bare bones language.
And yayy, I'm glad. I was worried... because, I'd never turned an ahk file to an exe.
BUT YAY.

Edit:
Can someone screenshot their p3 and p5 games for me? I need to know what the menus look like...
Thanks:)

Well it's more than I knew...and you seem to be the first one to have done this, so that's pretty cool! xD

Do you want the contents of all the menus too, or is this fine?

Dotty · Post by **Dotty** » Wed Jan 30, 2013 8:08 am

Yayy, Andi, glad it's working for you! :)
Thanks, Lily, that's exactly what I needed.
P5 and P3 will be working in no time:)

Edit:
http://sdrv.ms/WfqInC
P3 and P5 should work.
Not that I can test it really.
But let me know.
:)

CatCreature · Post by **CatCreature** » Wed Jan 30, 2013 8:44 pm

Cool! :O I'll give it a try!

Curious, does V2 cover all three, or just the two new ones? Wondering if I still need the first one or not. xD I'm guessing it covers them all, but just making sure. I'll edit to say if it worked alright or not!

EDIT: Answered my own question, yes it covers P4! xD

AND YAY! It all worked Dotty!

This is awesome, thank you!!

Dotty · Post by **Dotty** » Wed Jan 30, 2013 9:47 pm

^ haha yep, works for all three. :)
No problem, no problem. :D

Be on the lookout for v3... sometime after my next paper is due... :)

cathface · Post by **cathface** » Thu Jan 31, 2013 7:36 am

I'm impressed, Dotty! :D looking forward to seeing if you can make it so you can breed multiple females to a male!

edit: so I tested it out and since I had to breed something, and I couldn't be bothered to switch in/out any petz, I ended up breeding these two:

Baldr (from Emily/Croag/Bubblewrap) and Wigglebum (from Kanami)

aaaand I forgot I'd left my own hexed file in and out popped this:

lol oops.