if you press xa with a t1 con selected, you will get a light aa
if you press ctrl+f7 (hide ui), then press xa with a t1 con selected, it will give you a basic solar
assuming this is unintentional behavior, I have stumbled onto a bug
#grid con build keys unusable with ui off
odd oar
cursive breach
Eh, don't think it's unintentional.. The menu doesn't work if it isn't turned on.
odd oar
but they're just keybindings, are they not? sure, you can't click your way there, but why would turning of the menu turn off grid keys too?
cursive breach
Because they're handled by the same widget that displays the menu at the same time, so if that widget is turned off when the UI is hidden, it turns off the menu's functionality completely.
cursive breach
Unit orders in general still work, because they're all handled by different widgets or by the engine. The order menu is a UI piece that displays and has a button interface for those orders. Basically, the order used for a lab or constructor to make something is buildunit, and that will still work if the grid menu is turned off (and you had a separate keybind that did that). The grid menu creates a UI piece that manages a whole range of buildunit orders and displays a clickable interface to the user, all in a single widget.
So you could create a set of hotkeys that allows you to build units when the UI is turned off.. the bindings from the default layout on ZXCV (used with defualt build menu) will work with the UI turned off.