Topic: Assign keys for Show DEM and Pause Topography

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March 31, 2023 at 11:06 am #2538

Cormac
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I use Show DEM tool as a way to take the color out of the AR sandbox projection and talk about black and white topographic maps. I’m wondering if there is a way to assign this to a hotkey. The issue with Show DEM is that once I assign it, it asks me to open a file – I literally just exit that prompt and then it works to switch to black and white. There may be a more efficient way to program this function.

In addition, I’m wondering how to code “pause topography”

Thanks all – this forum has been very helpful so far!

March 31, 2023 at 2:36 pm #2539
Sean Robinson
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We switch between full-color and white maps for the same reason, using the control pipe. This Switch texture water to lava post describes how to change colors. For white, create a .cpt file with the following values.

-25.00 255 255 255
25.0 255 255 255

AFAICT, “Pause Topography” is not available for assignment to a key via the configuration files, but I could be wrong. If you are comfortable patching C++ source, the following diff will add a “pauseUpdates” control pipe command. This will toggle screen updates using the same algortihm the assigned key uses.
```
--- a/Config.h
+++ b/Config.h
@@ -1335,6 +1337,9 @@ void Sandbox::frame(void) {
                     } else {
                         std::cerr << "Wrong number of arguments for rainStrength control pipe command" << std::endl;
                     }
+                } else if (isToken(tokens[0], "pauseUpdates")) {
+                    pauseUpdates = !pauseUpdates;
+                    pauseUpdatesToggle->setToggle(pauseUpdates);
                 } else {
                     std::cerr << "Unrecognized control pipe command " << tokens[0] << std::endl;
                 }
```
- This reply was modified 1 year, 7 months ago by Sean Robinson. Reason: fix link to colormap help
April 5, 2023 at 10:16 am #2543
Sean Robinson
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Sorry, the patch I posted has a mistake. (The dangers of hand-editing a patch.) The following should cleanly apply.
```
--- a/Sandbox.cpp
+++ b/Sandbox.cpp
@@ -1335,6 +1335,9 @@ void Sandbox::frame(void) {
                     } else {
                         std::cerr << "Wrong number of arguments for rainStrength control pipe command" << std::endl;
                     }
+                } else if (isToken(tokens[0], "pauseUpdates")) {
+                    pauseUpdates = !pauseUpdates;
+                    pauseUpdatesToggle->setToggle(pauseUpdates);
                 } else {
                     std::cerr << "Unrecognized control pipe command " << tokens[0] << std::endl;
                 }
```
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