Unity 2017.4.2 seems to let Alt/Control through to the Editor while playing

Unity Engine
1

Hi all,

As the subject says, I have some commands in my game using Alt/Control + another key. Previously this worked fine, however now I am not receiving the subsequent key as it appears Alt/Control is take by the Editor instead

Has anyone else experienced this?

Thanks!

2

It just means you’ll have to build the game to test the effect of those key combos.
Or add a conditional in code so that different keys are monitored in editor and in build.

#if UNITY_EDITOR
        //use different keys
#else
        //use Alt/Control + another key.
#endif
3

Thanks for the response. I can find a way around it like you suggest, but this hasn’t always been the case and doesn’t seem like it should be the case?

4

Until hotkey signals got intercepted by editor.

If you think so, please file a bug report. I’m sure some Unity dev will be able to tell you why decision to completely intercept some hotkey signals was made.
Maybe it IS just a bug, but it doesn’t matter that much since you have a workaround now.

5

After restarting, it seems to be behaving how it did previously. Quite interesting.