More comprehensive button mapping for use outside of gaming (Chrome)
GoogleCodeExporter opened this issue · 3 comments
Your program is awesome. In fact im typing this from a wireless 360 chatpad
right now.
This may have been answered already under a number of different contexts but i
was wondering if custom mappings that are in the works may include some level
of support for Chrome? This computer is hooked up to my TV so the xBox
controller with chatpad is a near flawless media center controller given that
it simply needs to control Chrome at some level of proficiency (which it does
in its current state for the most part).
Im interested in maybe the D pad being up down left right keys and maybe a
modifier key thatd allow for different shortcut executions like open/close tab
or zoom feature.
A good example of this is xbox2mouse (
https://github.com/adamjimenez/Xbox2Mouse ) which has amazing controls and
modifiers but sadly wont run concurrently with your software. Maybe if you dont
want to reinvent the wheel you could have a "bare bones chatpad" mode in which
your software only controls the chatpad while another program like xbox2mouse
handles the controller.. I understand the nuances involved in making that work
might be impossible but im just spitballing ideas at this point.
Just thought id do my part and add two cents suggestions from an end user
perspective. Not begging or nagging just suggesting.
PS I used runintraymod from here http://www.milesaheadsoftware.org/ to create a
shortcut that runs in my Startup folder that runs your software minimized to
tray at startup for extra seamless operation. I just boot up, turn on my
controller, and go! That is to say another suggestion might be a "start
minimized" option :)
Keep up the good work
Thom
Original issue reported on code.google.com by rellim...@gmail.com on 8 May 2015 at 3:52
Or heck now that I think about it a way to get the Ctrl button going as a
modifier key would get most of the job done. (Ctrl+T new tab, Ctrl+Shift+T open
last tab, Ctrl+Tab change tabs)
(maybe in place of the red modifier key that does all the mostly useless
characters?)
I've almost got some sort of funtionality on this with AutoHotKey though I need
to figure out how it will let me use keys like Þýú$éå (red modifier
characters) without telling me it cant use keys not on the current keyboard map
:/
Original comment by rellim...@gmail.com on 8 May 2015 at 4:33
This is a planned feature. For now, you could use XPadder to map the controller as a mouse with your own key combinations. Xbox2Mouse relies on Xinput, which I currently can't support now since that would require a large driver rewrite and I don't quite know enough about WDM to rewrite it so that the driver would leave all controller functions to the Microsoft driver. I'll have to look into xbox2mouse when implementing custom button mappings.
Received feedback on duplicate issue that seemed to suggest adding ability for custom mappings to simulate multiple keypresses as well as single keypresses.
Custom/alternate keyboard mapping is planned for the backlog. Been scheduled for post-v1.0 release