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Many World Editor Controls Do NOT Work On My Computer, Please Help! Some controls(f1 f2 f3 f4 f5 f6 f7 f8 f9 f10) don't seem to be wor

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Posted 17 January 2018 - 06:12 PM

On my laptop, the F controls, used for placing many different things, don't seem to be working! Can anyone help?

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Posted 17 January 2018 - 06:52 PM

Probably not without more information. What's the manufacturer and model of your laptop? My best guess would be how most laptops have special functions like volume control or screen brightness bound to certain F keys, usually accessed by a 'fn' modifier key. But perhaps something is different in your case and they're just off and not sending any keycodes by default? Alternatively, maybe your laptop is just busted. Do they work for any other programs? F1 will typically pull up some sort of help or info page for most applications, have you tried that with anything else?
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Posted 17 January 2018 - 07:43 PM

In addition to providing the information Wervyn requested, could you try something? From the editor, press Alt+Y to open the debug window (red box, bottom corner) and then press Alt+T to go into testing mode. When you press F1-F11, what do you see in the green/magenta text at the bottom of the debug window? Do these numbers change?
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Posted 17 January 2018 - 07:56 PM

My F keys do stuff like increase/decrease volume & screen brightness. Sometimes the World Editor actions happen, but for now it looks like I'm not going to be adding any solid objects to my world anytime soon. :(

I use a newer Lenovo laptop with Windows 10.
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Posted 17 January 2018 - 08:08 PM

Do you have an "Fn" key next to Left Control or Alt or the spacebar? What happens when you hold that and press the function keys?
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Posted 17 January 2018 - 08:30 PM

That works! Thanks! :(
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Posted 17 January 2018 - 08:36 PM

  • Shut down the computer.
  • Press the Novo button and then select BIOS Setup.
  • In the BIOS setup utility, open the Configuration menu, and change the setting of HotKey Mode from Enabled to Disabled.
  • Open the Exit menu, and select Exit Saving Changes.

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