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In-Game Control Menu Editing

Step #1 - What is the Control Menu?

The control menu is where you can set up all your keys using the friendly Counter-Strike menu. To get to this menu you will need to load up CS --> Config. --> Controls. When you get there you will see that on the left of the black box, there is a list of all the commands e.g. Flashlight and on the right the Key's that have been set up to execute these commands. This menu uses the Key's set from the config.cfg and information from the kb_act.Ist and the kb_def.Ist files.

Step #2 - Editing the Files

1) Open up Notepad and find your way to the Cstrike --> gfx --> shell folder. Open up the file kb_act.Ist. The lines should look similar to this;

"buy" "Buy Menu"

The first section on the left is the alias or command. The section on the right is what would appear in the Controls Menu next to where you would bind a key to the buy command. Take a look at this picture for a clearer look.

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2) The blue circle is around where 'Buy Menu' would appear and the white circle is around where the key you have selected to load up the Buy Menu. If you used the Defuse & Cover script (Link here) then you could add this to the kb_act.Ist file to make that command bindable in the Controls menu.

"+defuse" "Defuse & Cover"

This would add the Defuse & Cover section to the Controls Menu. Remember the section on the left is the alias, so if you want to use this then you will have to have the Defuse & Cover script in your autoexec.cfg for it to work.

3) If you want to arrange your Controls Menu so it looks nifty, then you will need to use "blank" instead of an alias. You could set it up like this;

"blank" "Counter-Strike Only Commands"

This would add 'Counter-Strike Only Commands' to the left hand side of the Controls Menu and leave a blank space on the Right, if you try to bind something to it, it will not let you. This is useful if you have a new script and want to release it to the world with it set-up so all your specific Binds/Aliases are in one place and not muddles up with the other commands.

Well that's about it for this guide, I hope it helps!