Hi!

Is there a reason that the Control-space key combination can not be seen
through the controller device? The code seems to indicate that, even though
Control-enter seems to work. Is this intended? It'd be nice to have a bit
more choice for key-combinations, unless there is a particular reason
(portability to other host systems, etc.) to restrict this.


felix

It's a weird one, it works on some OSes, and doesn't on others. On OSX
people told me it triggers some sort of expose thing, it's not a great
candidate for portability that one, same with alt+tab which is
probably not going to register on some OSes.

> It's a weird one, it works on some OSes, and doesn't on others. On OSX
> people told me it triggers some sort of expose thing, it's not a great
> candidate for portability that one, same with alt+tab which is
> probably not going to register on some OSes.

Ok, I'll stick to what's available, then. Thanks for the info.


felix

Hi!

What was the reasoning behind choosing "Ctrl -> A" "Alt -> B" controller schema?
I'm using Varvara on ChromeOS and Alt+Arrow combinations don't work.

On Windows it's not much better, since at least those keys are far
from being near to each other and Ctrl + other buttons not all works.

Would not it be better to use something like Z, X instead of Ctrl, Alt
as a standard layout?

Sincerely,
Dimitrian

> What was the reasoning behind choosing "Ctrl -> A" "Alt -> B" controller schema?

Varvara uses the standard NES controller, the keyboard modifier keys
go through the controller's button port. When you program the control
scheme for your app, think that it's likely that someone will be using
it on a NDS.

> I'm using Varvara on ChromeOS and Alt+Arrow combinations don't work.

Really?! That's very disappointing.. it's a pretty common key combination.

> Would not it be better to use something like Z, X instead of Ctrl, Alt as a standard layout?

What do you mean z/x? like the keys? But in most applications these
keys are used to input letters, left, dexe, orca use the Z and X keys
to write these characters into the application.

> Really?! That's very disappointing.. it's a pretty common key combination.
I guess that is because Chromebook lacks Page Up/Down keys and they
are mapped to Alt+Arrow Up/Down.

> What do you mean z/x? like the keys? But in most applications these
> keys are used to input letters, left, dexe, orca use the Z and X keys
> to write these characters into the application.

That makes sense, now I see why Ctrl and Alt were chosen.