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Key mapper for SH3

Greetengs Capitains!

I'm unfortunate user of AZERTY keyboard, so I searched for a key manager for SH3. I found one, which comes with LSH 2015, but it was barely usable. Thus I started to create my own (c.f. screens). In the current state it reads the Commands_en.cfg, and put key-list on screen. Actually it detects the conflicts (same key for different actions and overlapping contexts).

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I write in C++, with NCurses library. I would like to write it for Windows, but I never coded for it, and I have no idea how to make an Windows GUI. If there are an expert who could help me to move on Windows, I'll be grateful.

1) Is it of any use? Probably there are already an user-frendly key mapper that I'm not aware of.
2) That exactly context means, and how it defines the keys? For example the space-bar used for 'select target' in binoculars and 'fire' in gun, however both actions have same context.

Thoth_already_in_use!:Kaleun_Salute: Very "thothful' of u to check in!:up:

You might consider AutoIt and AutoHotkey:

https://www.autoitscript.com/site/autoit/
https://autohotkey.com/

Both have been around for a number of years.

Good luck!

Welcome to SubSim Kaleun :Kaleun_Salute:

Thanks for welcommings)

Sometimes Google just hate me -- after all I found a key manager for SH3. However it works strangely -- so I will continue to make this one. Also I found Qt, which is easy to access/learn (at least at the basis laves), and I'm porting existing cote to Qt.

Few questions for spetialists:
where I can find the definitions for command name, MenuId, Page/Title and StringId?
I get StringID are defined in en_menu.txt. But for other variables, I'm not sure.

And, by the way, I'm not a real programmer, I just have a very dull fall.

This may help you with the MenuId

example:-
In Command_en

[Cmd10]
Name=Interior_fore_camera
Ctxt=1
MnID =0x3F020001
Key0=0x71,,"F2"
Page=0x33000000,3703

Your installation will be different to mine, due to mods. But this shows how to do it.

Copy the 0x3F020001 then open up Menu_1024_768. Then in Edit select find and paste 0x3F020001

Menu_1024_768

[G3F I34]
Name=Command room
Type=1032
ItemID=0x3F020001
ParentID=0x3F020000
Pos=0,-7,40,41
Materials=4
Display=0
Mat 0=data/menu/OLC/Shortcuts/CommandRoom.tga
Mat 1=data/menu/OLC/Shortcuts/CommandRoom.tga
Mat 2=data/menu/OLC/Shortcuts/CommandRoom.tga
Mat 3=data/menu/OLC/Shortcuts/CommandRoom.tga
MatFlags=0x21
TexFmt=0x9
Font=1
TextFlags=0x0
StatesColors=0xB0B0B0FF,0xF F,0xFFFFFFFF,0xFFFFFFFF

This is one of the commands on the slide out menu on the left side of the screen.

[G3F I23]
Name=Group shortcuts
Type=1026
ItemID=0x3F020000
ParentID=0x3F000000
Pos=137,52,570,52
Color=0xFFFFFFFF
VertSlide=-47

This is the ParentID of the group of shortcut commands - the VertSlide command is what makes it slide out from the bottom of the screen. (Note: My shortcuts are at bottom of screen. therefore it is a vertical slide = VertSlide. If it was in the normal position on the left side, it would be an horizontal slide = HorizSlide.)