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Title: Any reason not to wire my player 1 & 2 buttons as mouse right & left click too?
Post by: shmokes on January 01, 2009, 10:12:14 pm

I have an Ipac and an Optipac.  I don't plan to have dedicated mouse buttons, but would like to use my player 1 & 2 buttons as mouse buttons for navigating in Windows and in the odd PC game that uses the mouse.   So i was thinking of wiring buttons 1 & 2 to both the Ipac and the Optipac.  Will this cause any problems?  Do any of the emulators respond badly to random mouse clicks in the middle of games?

Title: Re: Any reason not to wire my player 1 & 2 buttons as mouse right & left click too?
Post by: severdhed on January 01, 2009, 10:31:02 pm

why not just wire them as mouse buttons only, and tell mame to use the mouse buttons as buttons 1 and 2?

Title: Re: Any reason not to wire my player 1 & 2 buttons as mouse right & left click too?
Post by: shmokes on January 01, 2009, 10:51:57 pm

*shrug*

I have three panels and they're all already wired to the Ipac.  Only one of the panels has a trackball on it, so it's just the buttons on that panel that I'm wondering about.  I really don't want to rewire those buttons.  I used ethernet cable to keep things relatively uncluttered, and there's not nearly enough slack to just move the already wired buttons from the Ipac to the Optipac.

Title: Re: Any reason not to wire my player 1 & 2 buttons as mouse right & left click too?
Post by: severdhed on January 02, 2009, 12:06:15 am

i'm not sure i follow you then.  I am assuming that you have your ipac and optipac mounting in the cabinet, and the swapable panels each have a wire harness that plugs into the ipac.  the trackball panel has a second wire harness that connects to the optipac.

so, if that is the case, and you were planning on connecting those two buttons to both encoders, you were going to have to run new wires from those two buttons so that they connect to the optipac harness anyway right?  so why not just disconnect them from the ipac harness and only connect them to the optipac harness.  then tell mame to use either Ctrl or Mouse 1 for button1 and Alt or Mouse 2 for button2.  that way no matter which panel is connected, mame will work fine.

i dont think you can connect them to two different encoders at the same time, it could cause problems

Title: Re: Any reason not to wire my player 1 & 2 buttons as mouse right & left click too?
Post by: shmokes on January 02, 2009, 12:30:15 am

No . . . sorry.  I explained it poorly.  Panels are fixed.  All three are connected simultaneously, but only one is in use at any given time (rotating).