Keybinds: New modifier types: Long press, short press

[twistking]

There were already some wishlist threads about having VoIP on the proper radio buttons seperated from the radio menu by short press vs hold. This is an obviously good idea, but maybe ED could take it one step further and add duration modifiers to all keybinds, where you can assign a key to a function and then specify if any duration would trigger (default) or if the key only registers on short press, on long press, or only when holding.
This could be used for VoIP, but for so many other functions. For example you could use it to prevent accidenticaly trigger a critical function by assigning it to "long" press. Useful for "Gear down" and similar bindings. Or save real estate to assign a two-way function to only one button seperated with short/long: NV Goggles On: N (long), NV Goggles Off: N (short).
You could assign VoiP to a certain key/button without modifier and assign the radio menu to the same key with"short press", so it would only trigger when the button was released within a certain short timeframe.

I'm aware that this can easily create problems with certain modern aircrafts hotas commands, that have long/short press hardcoded, but since the default behaviour would still be the current behaviour, this is less of a problem. Also a warning could be shown, if users want to add long/short modifiers to modern aircraft Hotas commands.

Edited May 25, 2023 by twistking

[twistking]

Can i quickly pat myself on the back a bit for that one?
Thought some more about it and i think it's genius. Well, it's not really genius since it's super common on more casual games. Especialyl those with a console/gamepad heritage. It just works extremely well. It's a shame that this wasn't in DCS 10 years ago already. HOTAS buttons are prime real estate, everything that helps with that saves money and headaches.
It's true that users could create illogical keybinds, which won't play nice with certain HOTAS commands, but that's expected with a complex sim. It would open up so much more possibilities for elegant, intuitive keybinds...

Edited May 25, 2023 by twistking