Remapping one key to another key?

[MarkF]

Is there a way to map a key to a different key?  On my admin panel, I have a button mapped as the C key to act as ESCAPE  within Mame.  I use Gameex as my FE.  So when I press the ESC key on the admin panel it exits the game and goes back to the FE.
 
My problem is Visual Pinball wants to see the ESC key from the keyboard sent to exit.  I didnt see an option within Visual Pinball to change this setting.  I can change the flippers and plunger, but not exit and pause.  Right now I am using the shift function within IPAC to press the player1 start and player 2 start to send the ESC command.

I want to keep the way I exit a game consistent.  How can I make my admin ESC key exit both Mame and VP and go back to the FE

Does any of this make sense?

Mark

[MarkF]

I guess my simpler question would be

How do I make a button act as the ESC key with one button push?  IPAC want 2 buttons pressed to send the ESC function. (P1 start and P2 start)

[javeryh]

In MAME you just hit Tab and change the settings.  You can make any button act as ESC.

[ahofle]

You will need to remap the IPAC using the programming utility from ultimarc's website if you want a dedicated single ESC key for all emulators.

[MarkF]

In MAME you just hit Tab and change the settings.  You can make any button act as ESC.

Thats what I have now. I have my 'C' key acting as ESC within mame, but Visual Pinball doesnt want 'C' it wants 'ESC'.  I see no way of changing that within VP.

[MarkF]

You will need to remap the IPAC using the programming utility from ultimarc's website if you want a dedicated single ESC key for all emulators.

Is this WinIPAC?

[unclet]

I thought the IPAC lets you reconfigure your IPAC key mappings whenever you want.  When I start a Mame, then my encoder gets loaded with the Mame key mappings.  When I start a Visual Pinball game then my encoder gets loaded with the Visual Pinball mappings.  Same thing for all my other emulators.

Most of the common front ends allow for a "command" to be executed before it starts the emulator with the selected game.   The "command" you should run would be to remap your encoder to how you want it.

[MarkF]

I got it working.  I used WinIPAC to make 1SW7 ('C') to be 'ESC' and 1SW8('V') to P.  Simple enough.

Mark

[ahofle]

You will need to remap the IPAC using the programming utility from ultimarc's website if you want a dedicated single ESC key for all emulators.

Is this WinIPAC?

Yep, although I see you've already figured it out.