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Front End Support => MaLa Frontend => Topic started by: Wade007 on May 11, 2012, 01:08:25 am

Title: Can Mala Hotkeys be setup to close an emu with ANY two keys? [SOLVED]
Post by: Wade007 on May 11, 2012, 01:08:25 am

I'm using Hotkeys to close Sega Model 2 in Mala by pressing one button. Works fine but I'd like to use a two key combination that DOES NOT include Shift, Alt, or Ctrl.

Is that possible? How?

I'd like to map it to the 2 + 4 keys simultaneously. Can that be done in Hotkeys?

Title: Re: Can Mala Hotkeys be setup to close an emu with ANY two keys?
Post by: TopJimmyCooks on May 11, 2012, 02:14:40 pm

Can't via Mala but you could with AutoHotKey. 

Title: Re: Can Mala Hotkeys be setup to close an emu with ANY two keys?
Post by: empardopo on May 12, 2012, 09:00:07 am

Again, I think you could take a look to AllInOne.
Greetings!

Title: Re: Can Mala Hotkeys be setup to close an emu with ANY two keys?
Post by: Wade007 on May 12, 2012, 12:18:19 pm

OK. Thanks for your responses.


Empardoro, how do I launch AllinOne within Mala? Via a BAT file? Is there another way?

En español: ¿Como puedo lanzar to programa "AllInOne" en Mala? No entiendo muy bien como se hace. ¿Atravez de una .Bat programa? ¿Hay una otra manera?

Title: Re: Can Mala Hotkeys be setup to close an emu with ANY two keys?
Post by: Wade007 on May 12, 2012, 11:02:41 pm

I'm now confident, having figured out how to use both AllInOne and AutoHotkeys, that either one of these programs can be used to set up a two-key-combo-quit-emulator function as described in my initial post.

For example, see my last post here describing how I got AllInOne to work with Daphne:
http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=120183.0 (http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=120183.0)

I used AutoHotKeys for Demul with success as well.

I used Mala Hot Keys to quit Sega Model 2.

If you want to remap a single key to the quit emulator function and the emulator itself doesn't allow a remap (best option if possible), then HotKeys within Mala will do it just fine. Mala Hotkeys will also map a two-key Close (Quit emulator) function as long as one of those two keys is Shift, Alt, or Ctrl.

Mala Hot Keys set up for this is as follows:

Name: Close
Type: Post
Source: (1st chosen key)
Destination: ESC (if the Escape key is your emulator's quit function)

Then just check "Shift", "Alt", and/or "Ctrl" to create the 2+ button combo to quit the emulator. Again, this works great as long as you are OK with using Shift, Alt and/or Ctrl as the 2nd or more combo button. In my case I didn't want to use any of those keystrokes as the second part of the combo. Enter Auto Hot Key or AllInOne.