Shoulder buttons as mouse buttons?

[bzar]

How do you type ':' in dosbox?


I've tried 'Shift + .' which gives me '>' and 'Fn + .' which gives me nothing...

On a pandora: no idea.

Anyways - reinstalling the .pnd in the manner I described sorted the problem.

Good thing you got it sorted out

 

[WizardStan]

How do you type ':' in dosbox?


I've tried 'Shift + .' which gives me '>' and 'Fn + .' which gives me nothing...

On a pandora: no idea.

Fn-Shift-,


That is, function, shift, and the , button.


Fn-, = ;


and if you look at your desktop keyboard, shift-; = :


DosBox is kind of weird like that.

 

[FaeMinx]

How do you type ':' in dosbox?


I've tried 'Shift + .' which gives me '>' and 'Fn + .' which gives me nothing...

On a pandora: no idea.

Fn-Shift-,


That is, function, shift, and the , button.


Fn-, = ;


and if you look at your desktop keyboard, shift-; = :


DosBox is kind of weird like that.

I hold down Fn + Shift + , and I get: ;


I hold down Fn + Shift + . and I get: nothing


?? Still can't get :

 

[WizardStan]

Huh. Something is behaving different between the L shoulder button and the shift on the keyboard.


Press Fn-L-,


That is, Fn+Left shoulder+comma.


Oh yeah! The keyboard matrix can only handle 2 keys at a time. When you press the third one, it's probably getting confused. The shoulder and game buttons are their own GPIO lines so have no such restriction.


edit: Oh duh! The problem isn't the keyboard limit, the problem is that Fn-Shift is caps-lock. Just tried this and it works: press and hold shift, THEN the fn key, then the , button. Works every time. Pushing the Fn button first it turns the shift into caps lock.

 

[FaeMinx]

Still isn't working for me.


shift (and hold) then fn + . still gives me nothing.

 

[Prometheus]

Have you tried Shift ("L" shoulder button) + Fn + ;? That's the solution given in this thread, and it works for me.

 

[FaeMinx]

Have you tried Shift ("L" shoulder button) + Fn + ;? That's the solution given in this thread, and it works for me.

Strangely, that still doesn't work. ... I wonder why.


I'm not too phased tho... as my my 'games' folder is mounted as c:


At present I have no pressing need to use : in dosbox... but it would be nice.


Edit: Oops - it DOES work! My bad. :rolleyes:

 

[WizardStan]

Still isn't working for me.


shift (and hold) then fn + . still gives me nothing.

, not .


comma, not period.


Ignore the fact that : is on the Pandora keyboard. DosBox doesn't care. To get a colon it wants shift+semicolon. To get a semicolon, press fn+comma.

 

[FaeMinx]

, not .


comma, not period.


Ignore the fact that : is on the Pandora keyboard. DosBox doesn't care. To get a colon it wants shift+semicolon. To get a semicolon, press fn+comma.

Yes, thanks.


I was about to give up before I decided to read your and Prometheus' posts more carefully...