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button mapping on wheel utilities..

DC

button mapping on wheel utilities..

by DC » Fri, 30 Sep 2005 07:48:42

I have been using joy to key. Isn't there another app out there? I can't
  remember what the name of it is. thanks...

DC

Dave Henri

button mapping on wheel utilities..

by Dave Henri » Fri, 30 Sep 2005 08:50:49


   wasn't there something like rbjoy?   I have lately taken the advice of a
few TPTCC league members and snuck a Belkin Nostromo keypad replacement
doohicky into the family food budget.  Very handy.
dave henrie

DC

button mapping on wheel utilities..

by DC » Fri, 30 Sep 2005 09:17:09



>>I have been using joy to key. Isn't there another app out there? I can't
>>  remember what the name of it is. thanks...

>>DC

>    wasn't there something like rbjoy?   I have lately taken the advice of a
> few TPTCC league members and snuck a Belkin Nostromo keypad replacement
> doohicky into the family food budget.  Very handy.
> dave henrie

thanks Dave!!! yes always room in the family budget for some extra
hardware :o)
Uwe Schürkam

button mapping on wheel utilities..

by Uwe Schürkam » Fri, 30 Sep 2005 18:02:06


> thanks Dave!!! yes always room in the family budget for some extra
> hardware :o)

I don't quite get how this thingy works. Will it act as a 2nd controller
unit which can be used to map buttons to certain ingame functions? Looks
promising, as I often crash groping for the "Sorry!" quickchat key in
the dark while racing ;)

cheers, uwe

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Dave Henri

button mapping on wheel utilities..

by Dave Henri » Fri, 30 Sep 2005 21:11:17



  Yes, it connects via the USB port and essentially is just a replacement
for the left side of your keyboard.  You can assign individual keystrokes
or macros with multiple keypresses.  So instead of ctrl and 1 having to be
pressed for a quick chat message, you just create the ctrl 1 macro and
assign that to a key.  Some guys for the TPTCC league mounted the Nostromo
on the shell of their wheels, but my Black Momo is too small, the keypad
would be in the way of the paddles as the wheel turned.  So I got  couple
of cheap L shaped brackets and used a vice to unbend the 90 degree angle to
about 75 degrees.  Then drilled through the base and fixed a couple of
screws.  Bingo  a group of keys, easily reached.  It has 4 possible sets of
instructions, so 15 keys plus a clickable mouse wheel, plus the 8 way
joypad plus the big red button x4 equals.....well a-lot of combos that can
be entered..although I'm not gonna be search for which mode I have the
thing in while racing.  I haven't had it long enough yet to assign more
than the basic 15 possible options in the 1st mode.
dh


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