Use Button Shortcut property

[cbscribe]

Suggestion from Lars:
The workaround where you manually call emit_signal("pressed") on the StartButton is not necessary. Buttons have a Shortcut property in the inspector where you can define what action can be used to press that button.

[cbscribe]

Setting the Shortcut property is complex too. Maybe just remove this entirely - is pressing space to start necessary?

[Warlaan]

I'd prefer leaving it out altogether to using script code. A property has exactly one place and exactly one purpose. Script code could go pretty much anywhere and could do pretty much anything, so it will statistically introduce more bugs and will be harder to debug.

How about visually showing that this step is optional? For example you could use a shaded box like for the "Tip"-elements. Or even link to a new page if you worry that it might look complicated enough to demotivate people.

[cbscribe]

Well, I've confirmed that the button ShortCut property is currently broken in 3.0. I'll keep an eye on this and hopefully by release we'll be able to use it.

[Warlaan]

That's unfortunate. On first sight it looked fixed since in version 2.1.x even setting a shortcut didn't work.