How to prevent Ctrl+S for saving?

[The Angry Convert 20]

I just recently now saved my game by accident, by pressing ctrl + S thinking I would plop up a school (realized the next second that it was ctrl + K). As soon as I pressed S, a small window in the middle of the screen came up saying "game has been saved", giving me no choice in the matter as to be sure I wanted to save it.

 

I haven't played SC for a long time (played frequently during 2020/early 2021), and I was just trying a few new mods on a default in-game city (in the region Berlin to be exact), so fortunately, nothing severe happen. But this means that I spent all this time on a serious project, not knowing I could've completely ruined it any given second, just by pressing S instead of K or any other letter. I often fast-forwarded a few years planning ahead, only to go back to the last stop now knowing what to do next. 

 

I find this unacceptable. I thought ctrl + S only applied for Microsoft Word, Excel and other similar programs. I have no memory of it ever applying to a game. Anyway, it totally should not be there, period. I find it utterly threatening to serious projects. Perhaps there's a mod fixing it, much like the mod warning me about saving the game right at the same time as leaving it (that one's been very useful).

[CorinaMarie 29,568]

I'm not aware of any such mod (but there could be). It was quicker for me to just whip one up for you than do a thorough search:

No Keyboard City Tile Save Allowed by Cori.dat

P.S. We changed the topic title so it'll be easier to find if anyone is searching for the same thing.

[The Angry Convert 20]

I just tested this mod that you created for me just now, and it worked. I can't be grateful enough, Cori. You really should make a mod page for it and not let it be just a file on this post. I find it to be one of the very most important mods for SC, period.

[CorinaMarie 29,568]

8 hours ago, The Angry Convert said:

I just tested this mod that you created for me just now, and it worked.

Woot! I'm so glad it does what you want.

Note: It also prevents Ctrl+Alt+S which is the Quick Save (that doesn't update the region thumbnail image). Should it do that as modded or only the Ctrl+S?

For reference, I simply extracted the KEYCFG file (0xA2E3D533-6A231EAA-6A9362EF) and altered two lines by putting a semicolon in front of each of them. (That makes the game consider them as a remark instead of code.)

Like this now:

;Control S               = 0x6a935e36   "Save City"
;Control Alt S           = 0x6a935e37   "Save City, Quick"

 

8 hours ago, The Angry Convert said:

You really should make a mod page for it and not let it be just a file on this post. I find it to be one of the very most important mods for SC, period.

I'd never thought of making such a mod before, but since I only save by mousing to the menu for it, I've kept it in my plugins along with CB's Save Warning which you mentioned. I can imagine there might be a few other peeps who do testing in their cities and would not want to accidentally save.

A STEX entry for it would be fine with me. RL is still going to be quite busy for me for a long while so I've asked @Cyclone Boom to add it.

[The Angry Convert 20]

Excuse my late answer.

Well, in my opinion, the mod should disable both ctrl+S and ctrl+alt+S, now that the latter doesn't update the region thumbnail (which I'd find catastrophic also).

Some people however might like having a quick save, so for them, the latter might be suitable (I'd rather not have it though). But in that case, the thumbnail needs to be upgraded for them as well. I don't think anybody would like a false thumbnail.

With that said, thank you for also disabling the latter, now that it would've eventually caught up with me as well.

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