Keyboard Keys appear redefined

[WindyM]

Having a great time experimenting with Mamewah, MAME and other emulators in preperation for cabinet build - thanks for some great programs.

Problem I am having is that frequently when exiting a program, the keyboard appear to be redifined. If I open up a text file to edit, keys don't work properly some work, others do funcions like close windows or copy.

An example is if I run Mamewah, launch Fusion and rom, and then exit everything, this happens. Another example is if I run Mamewah and launch MAME with Space invaders, when I return to MAmewah scrolling through MAME roms has a mind of its own back to the begging of the list, and I can move forward. (Space Invaders also seems tempermental with the keys)

I don't know if this is an emualtor issue or Mamewah. I am certainly not aware of re-asigning any keys in either.

Could anyone advise why I may see this, and how to fix without a reboot

Thanks

[Minwah]

Problem I am having is that frequently when exiting a program, the keyboard appear to be redifined. If I open up a text file to edit, keys don't work properly some work, others do funcions like close windows or copy.

Do you mean even keys on your actual keyboard?  If so, that's pretty wierd...  I didn't know keyboards had 'close windows' or 'copy' keys - is it some multimedia keyboard or something?

An example is if I run Mamewah, launch Fusion and rom, and then exit everything, this happens. Another example is if I run Mamewah and launch MAME with Space invaders, when I return to MAmewah scrolling through MAME roms has a mind of its own back to the begging of the list, and I can move forward. (Space Invaders also seems tempermental with the keys)

Are you using the latest MW?  I remember some of the really old versions (pre v0.95) sometimes developed a mind of their own...

[WindyM]

Problem I am having is that frequently when exiting a program, the keyboard appear to be redifined. If I open up a text file to edit, keys don't work properly some work, others do funcions like close windows or copy.

Do you mean even keys on your actual keyboard?  If so, that's pretty wierd...  I didn't know keyboards had 'close windows' or 'copy' keys - is it some multimedia keyboard or something?

I do mean the keys on my keyboard (stand Microsoft keyboard). It is odd. I believe it is MAME that causes the issue as I also get it after running directly from MAME32. Specifically, if I opened up notepad to edit an ini file after runnig MAME, pressing something like B may work, but W would close the window instead of showing the letter W or maybe just not show any letter(can't remeber specific responses per key), making it impossible to edit until I rebooted. No other programs outside of the emultor setup cause the issue. I have only tried a handful of MAME games, but frogger and space invaders repeatedly cause the issue (I am currently testing software setup from the keyboard and not a seperate joystick/button setup)

An example is if I run Mamewah, launch Fusion and rom, and then exit everything, this happens. Another example is if I run Mamewah and launch MAME with Space invaders, when I return to MAmewah scrolling through MAME roms has a mind of its own back to the begging of the list, and I can move forward. (Space Invaders also seems tempermental with the keys)

Are you using the latest MW?  I remember some of the really old versions (pre v0.95) sometimes developed a mind of their own...

I am running 1.51