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A new GPL utility: GPLOMe v1.0

David L. Co

A new GPL utility: GPLOMe v1.0

by David L. Co » Mon, 10 Jan 2000 04:00:00

3dfx Voodoo3 2000 here.  That's not it...


Mike Horto

A new GPL utility: GPLOMe v1.0

by Mike Horto » Tue, 11 Jan 2000 04:00:00

Just a thought. I've got a LWFF and I think Mike Turner has one too.
Maybe that's the problem. Anyone get it to work that has a LWFF
wheel??

Mike Horton
http://www.bus.nait.ab.ca/staff/mikeh/gpl
GPL F2/F3 Hotlaps and Other Downloadables



>I've got the same problem as Mike. Did exactly the same things he did
>too. Oh well it's a good idea anyway <G>

>Mike Horton
>http://www.bus.nait.ab.ca/staff/mikeh/gpl
>GPL F2/F3 Hotlaps and Other Downloadables





>>>> Works fine on the desktop in notpad and i even tried it in the Vroc
>>>> chat rooms, but nothing happens in GPL when on line.

>>> A few things which I could think of:

>>> Do you use the default hot keys or did you reprogram them? Since
>>> there are quite a lot of possible combinations it might be that
>>> there are some combinations that do not work in GPL. Start with
>>> something simple. Like F1 :)

>>Using default hot keys

>>> Did you change the delay settings? It might also be that
>>> GPL 'misses' keystrokes if the delay is too small. Although
>>> I kind of doubt this..

>>Didnt alter the delays

>>> Were you sitting in your car at the track? It might not work
>>> correctly in the GPL chat window.

>>I am sitting in my carand i do have chat enabled

>>> Do you have in-car chat enabled? :)

>>> Can you send a message from in-car chat by typing it your
>>> self (<enter>test<enter>) ?

>>> If you've checked all the above and everything looks good
>>> then it SHOULD work. I'm kinda out of ideas if it doesn't :(

>>Well thats both of us out of ideas then<G>

>>I will have a poke about and see what i can find!.......

>>Thanks anyway.

>>MikeT.

Casper Gripenbe

A new GPL utility: GPLOMe v1.0

by Casper Gripenbe » Tue, 11 Jan 2000 04:00:00



I think I've found the problem. It seems to be that if you're not
using a 3dfx graphics card and hence not using the 3dfx drivers then
it's not going to work :(

At least as far as I was able to test it on my
machine it seems that games which use Direct3D for
graphics also use special D3D keyboard handling routines. These
keyboard handling routines seem to bypass the normal windows
keyboard handlers and for that reason GPLOMe cannot 'eavesdrop'
on what keys you're pressing in the game...So it cannot detect
the hotkey events. This is just a theory..but I tried several
games with both 3dfx and D3D drivers and GPLOMe didn't work
in any of the games with D3D as the gfx driver. 3dfx worked
just fine. It's probably not only D3D, but other gfx drivers
which have their own keyboard handling too..OpenGL for
example..

If anyone has ideas on how to solve this problem please email
me. But for now non-3dfx users are our of luck..

Regards,
  Casper

Andre Warring

A new GPL utility: GPLOMe v1.0

by Andre Warring » Tue, 11 Jan 2000 04:00:00

LWFF here, works perfect...

Andre



>Act Labs Force RS here.  That's not it...



>> Just a thought. I've got a LWFF and I think Mike Turner has one too.
>> Maybe that's the problem. Anyone get it to work that has a LWFF
>> wheel??

>> Mike Horton

JVizoso.freeserve.co.u

A new GPL utility: GPLOMe v1.0

by JVizoso.freeserve.co.u » Tue, 11 Jan 2000 04:00:00

excellent stuff casper.... and it works with game commander too.... imagine
me going 'meep meep' into the mic lol!

--
J.H.Vizoso..... ICQ..37209596
Even a blind squirrel can find a nut

Hena H?kk?ne

A new GPL utility: GPLOMe v1.0

by Hena H?kk?ne » Wed, 12 Jan 2000 04:00:00



> Worked for me in the default settings.

Worked for me too. Kewl proggy, Caz! :)

Hena

Peter Ive

A new GPL utility: GPLOMe v1.0

by Peter Ive » Wed, 12 Jan 2000 04:00:00



Sounds fantastic.  There have been too many times when I've started to
type something, taken my eyes off the screen for a split second only to
go flying off the road.

Now all I've got to think of are the most common things I would like
normally like to type, such as 'Oi, you in the Eagle, get the f*ck out
of my way!'  :-)

Or 'Nice move! NOT!' as someone tries some late braking on me and
crashes off into the bushes.  Hehe!
--
Peter Ives - (AKA Ivington)

No person's opinions can be said to be
more correct than another's, because each is
the sole judge of his or her own experience.


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