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Title: windows problems
Post by: meta87 on June 19, 2003, 12:51:18 pm

Hi!

This might be hard to explain, but after I exit Mamewah or any other program and go back to the desktop I have to click on the desktop to use my Joystick to go up and down through the icons.

This is a problem because I don't have a trackball on my control panel and use the icons on the desktop to select my game. It sucks having to use the mouse all the time.

Any Ideas? (I'd love to put in a trackball but dont have the funds right now :) )
Thanks!

Title: Re:windows problems
Post by: BillyJack on June 19, 2003, 12:52:58 pm

If you have a tab key on your control panel, try hitting that a few times.  It may work...  i'm pretty sure it used to in Win98.  Eventually the My Computer icon gets "highlighted" after 2 or 3 tabs.

BillyJack

Title: Re:windows problems
Post by: _Iz- on June 19, 2003, 04:16:44 pm

setup a frontend that can launch everything you want to play (basically replace the desktop icons with it) and then either have it load at startup or replace the windows shell with it.

Title: Re:windows problems
Post by: spectre on June 19, 2003, 04:28:44 pm

this should be moved to software section...

Title: Re:windows problems
Post by: 2slk on June 19, 2003, 05:47:16 pm

Quote from: spectre on June 19, 2003, 04:28:44 pm

this should be moved to software section...

 So why don't you report that to the moderators?

Title: Re:windows problems
Post by: spectre on June 19, 2003, 06:02:52 pm

because it's not that big of a deal, i'm just saying for future reference, why make it harder on the moderators of bs like that, lol

Title: Re:windows problems
Post by: meta87 on June 19, 2003, 06:27:32 pm

I'm sorry, didn't think to put it in the software forum, will next time :)

Thanks!

Title: Re:windows problems
Post by: spectre on June 19, 2003, 07:24:42 pm

lol, no big thing

Title: Re:windows problems
Post by: Odonadon on June 20, 2003, 12:56:26 am

Quote from: meta87 on June 19, 2003, 12:51:18 pm

Hi!

This might be hard to explain, but after I exit Mamewah or any other program and go back to the desktop I have to click on the desktop to use my Joystick to go up and down through the icons.

This is a problem because I don't have a trackball on my control panel and use the icons on the desktop to select my game. It sucks having to use the mouse all the time.

Any Ideas? (I'd love to put in a trackball but dont have the funds right now :) )
Thanks!

If you're sporting an iPac, simply use  the shift function to tab.  By default, it's shift (1p) left.

Odonadon