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DOSBox Pure is a new fork of DOSBox built for RetroArch/Libretro aiming for simplicity and ease of use.
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Enhancement - allow binding of full keyboard with Keyboard+Right Mouse #54

Closed romadu closed 2 years ago

romadu commented 3 years ago

Hi, I'm trying to configure Elder Scrolls - Daggerfall on RG351P. The best device type seems to be Mouse with Right, but this has a very restricted list of keyboard keys that can be assigned. Mouse-look works well on the right analog, and swinging the weapon (R1 + right analog), but left / right slide (strafe) isn't possible because Right Shift cannot be bound to Right, and similarly Jump / Crouch / Cast Spell / Abort Spell cannot be assigned to B, X, R2, L2 respectively. Is it possible to enhance so that any keyboard key can be assigned to a button, which is possible in Custom Keyboard, but that doesn't provide the mouse support, which is important for this game. DosBox SVN provides the key and mouse customisation, but the game doesn't seem to load with that core. Many thanks.

schellingb commented 3 years ago

I'm a bit torn on how to solve this. It's either more core options or more control device types.

I could add 2 more custom keyboard device types:

But then what to do about the mouse buttons? Do you think they should be customizable or assign them fixed? Fixed would use L/R/X for Left Analog and B/A/X for Right Analog. To make them customizable would be a bit complicated but we could decide the keyboard keys F13/F14/F15 are left/right/middle buttons. Not really easy to understand. So probably fixed is the way to go.

romadu commented 3 years ago

Hi

Actually I inadvertently seem to have found a solution. I used DOSBox SVN, which has a keyboard + mouse option and closely matches your custom keyboard option. I loaded the remap folder into DOSBox Pure and all the button mappings worked plus the mouse was assigned to the right analog. DOSBox SVN has fixed assignments for the mouse buttons L + R shoulder buttons, and ironically they are the opposite of DOSBox Pure (R1 is assigned to primary mouse button ie left mouse button in DOSBox SVN), and neither allows mouse button reassignment so I changed a setting in the game controls to use M1 instead of M2 to use the weapon. It works pretty much perfectly.

Maybe it’s something that the libretro part of the core controls so that custom keyboard includes a mouse as well, or maybe specific to the RG351P ArkOS. In Doxbox Pure I can access the virtual keyboard, which isn’t working in Dosbox SVN.

To answer your question, it would be nice to be able to configure mouse onto L or R analog, and which button is used for mouse button to 1 & 2, but it’s sufficient to assign it to R analog and to assign the mouse buttons to the two shoulders, as that provides the required functionality to play games with keyboard and mouse combo.

Thank you

On Sun, 3 Jan 2021 at 10:02 AM, Bernhard Schelling notifications@github.com wrote:

I'm a bit torn on how to solve this. It's either more core options or more control device types.

I could add 2 more custom keyboard device types:

  • Custom Keyboard (No Mouse)
  • Custom Keyboard (Mouse on Left Analog)
  • Custom Keyboard (Mouse on Right Analog)

But then what to do about the mouse buttons? Do you think they should be customizable or assign them fixed? Fixed would use L/R/X for Left Analog and B/A/X for Right Analog. To make them customizable would be a bit complicated but we could decide the keyboard keys F13/F14/F15 are left/right/middle buttons. Not really easy to understand. So probably fixed is the way to go.

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Faerch commented 3 years ago

I'm a bit torn on how to solve this. It's either more core options or more control device types.

I could add 2 more custom keyboard device types:

  • Custom Keyboard (No Mouse)
  • Custom Keyboard (Mouse on Left Analog)
  • Custom Keyboard (Mouse on Right Analog)

But then what to do about the mouse buttons? Do you think they should be customizable or assign them fixed? Fixed would use L/R/X for Left Analog and B/A/X for Right Analog. To make them customizable would be a bit complicated but we could decide the keyboard keys F13/F14/F15 are left/right/middle buttons. Not really easy to understand. So probably fixed is the way to go.

I just tested DosBox Pure on my Nvidia Shield and it works great. But in some games, I really want to customize the controls for both the keyboard and the mouse.

So I would love if the extra custom keyboard device types were added. I would prefer if the mouse buttons were customizable.

schellingb commented 2 years ago

This should be solved by the new gamepad mapper released in 0.9.0 beta. Please reply in #57 for feedback on it.