Keyboard Modifiers - SeriousOldMan/Simulator-Controller GitHub Wiki
Many applications of Simulator Controller provide a couple of modifier keys for several functions. Find a list of all those modifiers and their functionalities below. Many modifier keys are also mentioned in the respective documentation, but here you have a complete overview.
Application | Function | Modifier | Description |
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Applications | Exiting an application from the tray menu | Control | When control is held down, the application will exit, even if it is still working on some background tasks. |
Solo Center | Loading a Session | Control | If you hold down the Control key while selecting the "Load Session..." command in the "Session" menu, you can load sessions stored in the old data format, which has been used, before sessions where stored in the session database by default. |
Displaying reports | Control | Reports are normally displayed in the Output view in the lower right corner of the main window. Holding down the Control key will open them in a separate window. | |
Deleting lap telemetry | Control | When holding down the Control key while deleting the selected lap telemetry, all telemetry laps will be removed from the Telemetry Viewer. | |
Race Assistants | Finishing a session | Control + Shift | Normally, the Race Assistants will wait for a specific cooldown time, before they startup again. While in training sessions against AI racers, you can skip this cooldown period with holding the Control together with the Shift key in the moment, when the Assistants detect a session change. But be aware, that all post-processing, like saving telemetry data or creating a race report will be skipped as well. |
Team Center | Startup | Control | If the Control key is pressed when starting the "Team Center", it will start with session synchronzation disabled. Only the basic data (stint plan, strategy, driver selection, tyre setups and so on) is loaded, but no session data like stints, laps, telemetry information, etc. |
Startup | Alt | The "Team Center" comes in two flavours with regards to the user interface. Holding down the Alt key while starting "Team Center" will start the Lite version with a very much simplified user interface. | |
Login | Control | If you hold down the Control key while pressing on the button with a small key to connect to a session, a login dialog pops up and you can use the team manager account name and password instead of a token to connect to a team session. | |
Loading a Session | Control | If you hold down the Control key while selecting the "Load Session..." command in the "Session" menu, you can load sessions stored in the old data format, which has been used, before sessions where stored in the session database by default. | |
Load current Race Strategy | Control | If you hold down the Control key while selecting the "Load current Race Strategy" option in the "Strategy" menu, the "Team Center" will first try to load the strategy, which has beend released for the session before loading the currentl locally saved Race Strategy. | |
Loading a Strategy | Control | If you hold down the Control key while selecting the "Load Strategy..." command in the "Strategy" menu, you can load strategies stored anywhere on your PC. A file dialog will open up. | |
Displaying reports | Control | Reports are normally displayed in the Output view in the lower right corner of the main window. Holding down the Control key will open them in a separate window. | |
Synchronize | Control | If you hold down the Control key while selecting the "Synchronize..." option in the "Session" menu, you can select the number of seconds to wait between each refresh of the data collected by the Team Center. Please do not use a refresh cycle smaller than 10 seconds when connected to a managed Team Server, since this will increase the running costs on Azure dramatically. | |
Race Settings | Login | Control | If you hold down the Control key while pressing on the button with a small key to connect to a session, a login dialog pops up and you can use the team manager account name and password instead of a token to configure to a team session. Please do not use a refresh cycle smaller than 10 seconds when connected to a managed Team Server, since this will increase the running costs on Azure dramatically. |
Session Database | Login | Control | If you hold down the Control key while pressing on the button with a small key to connect to a session in the settings dialog, a login dialog pops up and you can use the team manager account name and password instead of a token to the chosen Team Server. |
Data scope selection | Control | Normally, the choice of the "Available Data" drop down menu only affects the data shownn in the session database and all other applications, for example the Race Assistants will use only your personal data. If you hold down the Control key, while changing the selection, you will be asked, whether the change should be reflected for all applications. | |
Exporting race settings | Control | Holding down the Control key down when clicking the "Export..." button will export all settings, independent of what is currently selected. | |
Managing track automations | Control | Clicking on an automations point with the Control key down will delete this automation point. | |
Setup Workbench | Loading problems and issues | Control | Holding down the Control key while loading problem descriptions from a file, will not clear the current issue list but will add to it instead. |
Starting and Exiting | Control | Holding down the Control when exiting will save the current issue list to a temporary file and holding down the Control key when starting "Setup Workbench" will load those saved issues, so that you can continue your work. | |
Simulator Configuration | Termination of other applications | Control | The tool asks to terminate all other running applications, before working on the configuration. If you hold down the Control key, when clicking on the "Continue" button, other applications will not be terminated. |
Controller Configuration | Control | While configuring a Button Box or Stream Deck, this shortcut will open the input dialog to enter the function number directly, rather than open the context menu, when you click on a function with the Control key pressed. | |
Searching for trigger | Escape | When you have activated the trigger search mode to identify a hardware control on a Button Box or your steering wheel (a small tooltip will follow your mouse in this mode), you can press Escape to cancel the detection mode. | |
Testing Push-To-Talk | Control | When starting the Push-To-Talk test mode, you can start also any configured Assistant Boosters by holding down the Control key while clicking on the small button with the "Play" icon. | |
Modifying Icons | Control | When working on icons for the Stream Deck in the "Labels & Icons" editor, you can delete the current icon by holding down the Control key and clicking on it. | |
Developer configuration | Control | If you hold down the Control key while starting "Simulator Configuration", additional configuration options will appear on the first tab, especially for developers. | |
Assistant Booster configuration | Control | Holding down the Control key while clicking on the "Reload" button for the Assistant Booster instructions will reload all instruction categories at once. | |
Action configuration | Control | Holding down the Control key while clicking on the "Ok" button will open a text editor with the LLM tool definition in JSON format. | |
Driving Coach configuration | Control | Holding down the Control key while clicking on the "Reload" button for Driving Coach instructions will reload all instruction categories at once. | |
Creating a fresh configuration | Control + Shift | If you hold down Control together with the Shift key while starting "Simulator Configuration" you will be asked whether you want to clear your current configuration and start with a new one. Be careful here. | |
Simulator Setup | Termination of other applications | Control | The tool asks to terminate all other running applications, before working on the configuration. If you hold down the Control key, when clicking on the "Continue" button, other applications will not be terminated. |
Clicking on a function | Control | While configuring a Button Box or Stream Deck, this shortcut will open the input dialog to enter the function number directly, rather than open the context menu, when you click on a function with the Control key pressed. | |
Searching for trigger | Escape | When you have activated the trigger search mode to identify a hardware control on a Button Box or your steering wheel (a small tooltip will follow your mouse in this mode), you can press Escape to cancel the detection mode. | |
Testing Push-To-Talk | Control | When starting the Push-To-Talk test mode, you can start also any configured Assistant Boosters by holding down the Control key while clicking on the small button with the "Play" icon. | |
Choosing between Quick and Custom setup | Control | Normally, you can use the quick setup method only once at the beginning of your initial setup and configuration. Later on, the click on the quick setup icon is ignored, unless you hold down the Control key. But be aware, that it is possible in this case, that choices in the later configuration steps might be reset to default values. | |
Modifying Icons | Control | When working on icons for the Stream Deck in the "Labels & Icons" editor, you can delete the current icon by holding down the Control key and clicking on it. | |
Connecting actions and functions | Escape | When connecting an action to a function, or vice versa (a small tooltip will follow your mouse in this mode), you can cancel the connection by pressing the Escape key. | |
Assistant Booster configuration | Control | Holding down the Control key while clicking on the "Reload" button for the Assistant Booster instructions will reload all instruction categories at once. | |
Action configuration | Control | Holding down the Control key while clicking on the "Ok" button will open a text editor with the LLM tool definition in JSON format. | |
Driving Coach configuration | Control | Holding down the Control key while clicking on the "Reload" button for Driving Coach instructions will reload all instruction categories at once. | |
Creating a fresh configuration | Control + Shift | If you hold down Control together with the Shift key while starting "Simulator Setup" you will be asked whether you want to clear your current configuration and start with a new one. Be careful here. | |
Sound volume fading | Control | When leaving the first page of "Simulator Setup", which shows the splash video, you can hold down the control key to supress the fading of the sound volume and speed up things a little bit. | |
Simulator Startup | Automatic simulator startup | Middle Mouse Button | When starting "Simulator Startup" with the Middle Mouse Button pressed, the first simulator from the list of configured simulators will be started automatically. |
Simulator startup | Shift | When clicking Startup (green triangle) in "Simulator Startup" while holding the Shift key, the choice of "Close on startup" will be temporarily toggled for this one startup. | |
Simulator startup | Control | When clicking Startup (green triangle) in "Simulator Startup" while holding the Control key, the editor for the startup profiles will open up, even when the small cog wheel icon was not hit. | |
Simulator startup | Alt | When clicking Startup (green triangle) in "Simulator Startup" while holding the Alt key, the the currently selected simulator will be started automatically. | |
Editing startup profiles | Control | Holding down the control key when clicking the "Save" button in the startup profiles editor will save the profiles and start Simulator Controller in one step. | |
Exporting startup profiles | Control | Holding down the control key when clicking the "Download" button in the startup profiles editor will only include the currently selected profile in the export file. | |
Simulator startup | Control | When clicking Team Center in "Simulator Startup" while holding the Control key, the editor for the team management will open up, even when the small cog wheel icon was not hit. | |
Exiting "Simulator Startup" | Control | When closing "Simulator Startup" and the Control key is pressed, you will be asked, whether you want to exit all other applications of "Simulator Controller" as well. | |
Unblocking executables | Control + Alt | If you hold down Control together with the Alt key while starting "Simulator Startup", the application will try to acquire Admin privileges and will unblock all executables. | |
Simulator Tools | Running system build | Control | Only relevant for developers. If you hold down the Control key when starting "Simulator Tools", a window will pop up, where you can enable or disable individual build rules. |
Strategy Workbench | Simulate | Control | If you hold down the Control key while starting a strategy simulation, the result will automatically selected as the current strategy, if the simulation was successful. |
Load Settings | Control | If you hold down the Control key while choosing the menu command "Load from Settings..." from the "Settings" menu, you can locate a settings file on your hard drives rather than loading the standard "Race.settings" file from "Config" folder. | |
Select a Validator | Control | Holding down the Control key let you edit the contents of the validator rules file rather than than selecting it as the active validator. | |
Loading a Strategy | Control | If you hold down the Control key while selecting the "Load Strategy..." command in the "Strategy" menu, you can load strategies stored anywhere on your PC. A file dialog will open up. | |
Running a simulation | Escape | Pressing the Escape key will stop the currently running strategy simulation. | |
Assetto Corsa Competizione | Controlling Pitstop MFD | Control | In those rare situations, where the search for the current pitstop settings get stucked in an endless loop, you can press Control, which will restart the process. |