Push to talk hotkey

[YeahBunny]

If it's possible, You could make possibility to set TAB as a "Push-to-talk" hotkey.
I am using TAB in voice chat softwares while playing with my team, and it's hard to press 2 buttons at a time while want to say something on stream and voice chat.

 

[Dajova]

You can already do that.

Go to your profile, select "Audio" and enable "Use Push-to-talk".

 

[YeahBunny]

I cannot set TAB as my Push to talk hotkey.

 

[Lain]

TAB isn't currently supported at the moment, I'm not entirely sure if I -can- make it supported but I'll take a look at it some time

 

[Krazy]

What's the reason for that, btw? Is it some silly Windows thing?

 

[Dajova]

What's the reason for that, btw? Is it some silly Windows thing?

I am using TAB in voice chat softwares while playing with my team, and it's hard to press 2 buttons at a time while want to say something on stream and voice chat.

toüsché :)

 

[Lain]

Yes, how it works normally for dialogs and things is tab is used to "go to the next control" in a dialog/window, so it's the one key that's sort of currently off-limits with the hotkey control.. It's probably fixable, though there are so many other priorities that I can't really guarantee I'll spend time on it any time soon, especially with the fact that I'm already constantly delaying everything else all the time

 

[pystub]

Currently this can be achieved by opening your profile ini file in %APPDATA%\OBS\profiles and changing the desired hotkey value to 9.

If by any chance you're having trouble with other keys, check this out http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms927178.aspx (remember, the values in that page are in hex while OBS wants decimals, so unless you can convert numeral bases, you'll have to open up that good old calculator).

I doubt that there is any real benefit in implementing a system wide keypress lockdown just to capture tab key (unless there's already something like that in place).

 

[Lain]

...why didn't I think of suggesting that as a workaround. That's brilliant. I can't really get it into the app at the moment because.. well, I haven't had time to do anything at all, but that's a perfectly good workaround for the time being

 

[YeahBunny]

Currently this can be achieved by opening your profile ini file in %APPDATA%\OBS\profiles and changing the desired hotkey value to 9.

If by any chance you're having trouble with other keys, check this out http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms927178.aspx (remember, the values in that page are in hex while OBS wants decimals, so unless you can convert numeral bases, you'll have to open up that good old calculator).

I doubt that there is any real benefit in implementing a system wide keypress lockdown just to capture tab key (unless there's already something like that in place).

Thank you so much. It helped me a lot.

 

[computerguy]

to toggle voice chatting is much more professional and easier given not always do you know when you mic is muted if it is either off or on as to just being able to press to chat.