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Q: Wiring mouse buttons - IPAC and OptiPAC
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Tiger-Heli:

--- Quote from: rebfx on July 12, 2005, 01:06:08 pm ---As for "In this situation, the button sends both a mouse click and keyboard key with each press."...  What are the downsides to this? Will it hurt anything by sending both commands?

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Depends what the software is.  If nothing else in MAME, you will need to set MAME to look for the keyboard key and not the mouse key or vice versa.  In other software, I'm not sure if say L Ctrl plus a Left Mouse click would do anything or not.  It also could be a problem in that it will always happen - i.e. if a program can't take keyboard presses, I think there is a program to convert them to buttons or if it can't take mouse presses, I think there is joymouse, but if the Program accepts both inputs but can't ignore one or the other, your only option would be to re-wire the panel.  Also, I'm sure there are some latency issues with basically sending two inputs per button press, but I wouldn't expect this to be a huge issue.

--- Quote ---Would just using 3 separate buttons for the Trackball be the better option?

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Probably if you don't mind the extra buttons or the extra CP real estate taken up.
rebfx:
I think I will give it a try and see what happens... I really don't want 3 extra buttons on the CP, if I can get away from it.

thanks again Tiger-Heli.
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