keyboard support

[jbrokamp]

Thank you for making a creative and fun game.

It could be nice to have some key bindings, like:

• numeric keys could correspond to the CPU no
• i/o event button bound to some other key

i'm not sure what would be a good way to bind the processes, however.

[smiba]

I feel like if this game got keyboard support we could start to see some real intense gameplay

[plbrault]

Mapping the I/O event button to a key (I'm thinking the spacebar) would be the easiest.

As for mapping numeric keys to CPU's, the only problem I see is that the game allows up to 16 CPU's.

[jbrokamp]

Thanks for taking it in consideration :) I also thought about it a bit more, so additional key suggestions:

• CPU mapping numeric 1-8 and then 9-16 using SHIFT 1-8? Might require to split the 16 CPU's in rows of 8 to make it more intuitive. So interacting with the second row requires the SHIFT button, first row without SHIFT.
• Since the Processes form a grid, the user could navigate the grid via WASD / arrow keys to change focus and send them to CPU by hitting some key.

[plbrault]

Using SHIFT for CPU's 9-16 is an interesting idea!

As for using WASD for selecting idle processes, I also thought about it but I'm not sure how that would be more efficient than using the mouse.

[plbrault]

Key bindings are now implemented.

For now, CPUs 1-9 are mapped to keys 1-9, CPU 10 is mapped to key 0, and CPUS 11-16 are mapped to Shift+1-6. I did not put CPUs on 2 rows as suggested because that would require reworking the whole interface, and I'm not sure a lot of people play the game with so many CPUs.

[wviana]

This feature was awesome. Got even cooler to play this