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gazz292:

i'm re-thinking my control panel design a little,

atm i have 4 admin buttons, they are small round buttons about 20mm diamiter, i've found some nice flush ones that would look even better on my panel (i.e. you have to push the button inside the mounting bezel to activate it, no chance of hitting an admin button by mistake)

i put 4 on my cp as that's how many small switches i pulled from my cab, they used ro work the test switch, volume and that,

but i am struggeling to think what i'd use 4 for... i deffo want an escape and tab switch, pause could be handy i guess, but are there any other admin buttons that would benefit from a dedicated switch?? (yes i know i can do it all with the shift function on the mini-pac, but i want dedicated admin buttons)

i've also been thinking of putting in a double pole change over button which will switch 2 of the fire buttons connections to the mouse button inputs on the mini-pac, so i dont need dedicated mouse buttons, but can press the switch, then use 2 of the fire buttons as left and right mouse buttons, to be used with the trackball for altering things on the cab without the need to pull a mouse out.

does this sound like a silly idea? the button to activate the mouse buttons would be up by the admin buttons, so not in the way, and it'll iliminate to show it's active.



DrFrag:

Escape, Tab, Pause, Pause Frame Advance, Power, Reset, Load State, Save State, Turbo, Screenshot, Reset Game, Volume Up/Down, Mute, Frame Skip, Fraps Record.

Endaar:

I've got pause, tab, reset and exit. Reset isn't that necessary but I had the fourth button for symmetry.

Endaar

gazz292:

lol, a franken panel with an admin button for every possible choice... maybe not.

i am thinking 3 buttons are all thats really needed too, if i need any more i can make them shifted buttons, but the ones i'd be pressing all the time would be tab and escape, pause is handy,

i guess i could put the mouse button change over button with the admin buttons and that'd be the 4th one, i can get momentary and latching flush buttons of the same style,

Marsupial:

none.!!!


use a shift key (instead of a button, I used a switchkey, so it really is a key)
and have your normal buttons do the trick! :)

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