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Main => Main Forum => Topic started by: Zathras on August 03, 2005, 12:43:03 pm
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I'm considering building a simple recording controller like pathdoc2s (http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=38861.0).
I think an encoder would be a bit overkill for it so I am leaning towards a USB keyboard hack - so it would be hot swappable. I know about the key-press limitation but there will only be one button pressed at a time.
Anyway my question - some of the controls/shortcuts I want to add to the board require multiple keypresses (ie - shift+r )... Is there some trick/workaround to get that to work from a single button press?
Any other ideas?
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For what it costs to buy a USB keyboard, you're already halfway towards buying a budget KeyWiz device. At least that's how i see it.
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I already have a few spare USB Keyboards lying around so they are in a sense "free."
But I may have just discovered an alternate way to do it solving my multiple keypress issue. I've got a spare USB gamepad - maybe just hacking that and using JoyToKey (http://hp.vector.co.jp/authors/VA016823/) would work better. Has anyone tried the multiple key aspect of JoyToKey? Anything I'm missing there (I'm at work and on a Linux box or else I would try it out myself...)
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That ought to work so long as JoyToKey is compatible with the version of OS you're using. Hacking a gamepad is infinitely easier. No mapping, no worrying about matrices. You just hack it. Done.