Build Your Own Arcade Controls Forum
Main => Software Forum => Topic started by: Birdtales on November 17, 2002, 12:35:02 am
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One thing I haven't seen in an FE (I admit to have only looked at a few) is a virtual keyboard. I tire of going from Arkanoid to Tempest a page at a time. Most FE's let you type the first letter of a game to get you closer wouldn't it be great to have a little keyboard on the screen to do it?
I have a keyboard hooked up but put it's inside my control panel for programming the iPac. A real hassle to get to though. Alot of people don't even have a keyboard hooked up so I thought this might be a good idea.
I've downloaded a few Virtual keyboards from the Net but none of them really fit into any FE I've tried (always cover something up) most are not resizable either. If there is an FE out there that has one or someone knows of a decent virtual keyboard that is extremely configurable (and free :) ) please let me know.
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Virtual keyboards suck! ;) They remind you that you are in windows, which ruins the whole front-end idea. What you are asking though is already implemented in lazarus. Holding down the "shift" key and the left or right page keys moves to the next/previous letter on the list. There is also a search feature which lets you input a name to search for similar to how video games do high score entry.
go check it out
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Thanks Howard. I agree virtual keyboards suck. I just wanted a way to get quickly from letter to letter. Thanks for the tip I will check out Lazarus.