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Originally Posted by panthercules
so I'm not sure whether I'll need/use those command bar parts of this latest version or not
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Well you'll have to check it and see if I'm supporting anything you haven't mapped to a key yet. Use whatever works for you. I think keypressing is the best method overall since there's no chance of the mousecursor being "invisible" and it yanking your periscope view while reaching for a button. So, you can either choose to spend a bunch of time mapping keys and avoiding the command bar, or just use it as is and get the hang of how the mouse commands works.
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with all the changes that RFB seems to have made with the command bar - how does the program deal with the fact that certain commands are not always present on the bar in the same place or on the same screens?
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It doesn't deal with this at all. It is set up for SH4 Defaults + Trigger Maru (TM is only additional buttons, not changes.) Each command bar button is defined as an absolute x/y coordinate for each resolution. It has to be right or it'll press a different button - it doesn't know any better. If this RFB thing you speak of moves buttons around, you'll have to update the CSV.
It's really easy to update the mouse coordinates - look at the coordinates already in there - it's the same ones over and over since there's only a few button positions. The Y position is always the same and the difference between each X position is constant, like +60 pixels or so to move to the next button. So if a mod swaps the position of two buttons, then swap the coordinates of those two buttons with each other in the CSV and you're good, and if there's a new button on the right of a bar that never had a button there, it shouldn't be hard to figure out the coordinate without even having to pinpoint it on a screenshot. As I've mentioned, The Gimp is a free photoshop-like program that is perfect for getting the coordinates - you just move the cursor and it updates the x/y coordinates in the status bar at all times.
I'm considering adding real-time file reading support. This way, you could edit CSVs (like from a 2nd laptop PC) while running the game and try out your changes in realtime, without having to restart anything. This would make experimentation and tuning a lot easier.