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Tiger-Heli:
--- Quote from: Zathras on June 09, 2004, 12:57:36 pm ---The Alt-F4 thing is interesting - I mentioned it to a guy here at work and he said one thing to try if it doesn't work all the time is that 30cm of wire is equivalent to one nanosecond - so perhaps put the F4 wire on a few extra feet of wire would be enough to make it work reliably.
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I'm sure there a way to make a time delay circuit for it as well (don't know how though).
I'm not sure it wouldn't work anyway, just thought it MIGHT not. Wouldn't hurt to just wire it up and see what it does. . .
Zathras:
Ok ignore hotkey plus.
The new hotness is
Ultrakeyboard
Not only does it do all of the stuff that hot key does but it has a built in function that you can assign "exit current application" to any button... and it works GREAT.
So don't even have to think about alt-f4 wackiness...
Tiger-Heli:
--- Quote from: Zathras on June 10, 2004, 01:11:14 am ---Ok ignore hotkey plus.
The new hotness is
Ultrakeyboard
Not only does it do all of the stuff that hot key does but it has a built in function that you can assign "exit current application" to any button... and it works GREAT.
So don't even have to think about alt-f4 wackiness...
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Thanks for the link, worth getting just to be able to avoid Alt-F4 stuff (useful for Project 64 Nintendo 64 emulator).
Zathras:
FYI I think it is a macro that sends an alt-f4 command because if you do it at a blank desktop it gives you a shutdown prompt screen. Which is actually a nice thing for being able to shut down the cab.
Tiger-Heli:
--- Quote from: Zathras on June 10, 2004, 12:07:02 pm ---FYI I think it is a macro that sends an alt-f4 command because if you do it at a blank desktop it gives you a shutdown prompt screen. Which is actually a nice thing for being able to shut down the cab.
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Maybe . . .
BTW, it does NOT work in MAME but works in Project 64, which is a good thing actually.
For example, in MAME normally Alt+F4 does nothing.
If I have MAME running with Ultrakeyboard and press ESC, MAME exits, so Ultrakeyboard did NOT send Alt+F4. If I reset UI Cancel to Insert and press ESC, MAME does not exit, so Ultrakey did not just shut down the app. If I reset UI Cancel to Alt and F4 and press Esc, MAME does not exit, so Ultrakeyboard did not shut it down or send Alt+F4 . . .
Just FYI, but I thought it was weird. . .