mapping joystick buttons to mouse/keyboard

[Tankbuster 1744]

I assumed everyone knew about this, so when one of my long standing clanmates said he couldn't transmit in Teamspeak while flying with the joystick without going handsoff, I was quite surprised.

Players can of course, use voice activated, but no-one wants to hear me shouting at the cat in game. As neither Mumble or Teamspeak allow you to have a joystick button as a push-to-talk key, this application can be very useful.

You will still have to have a transmit key on the keyboard or mouse (I use right mouse button), but this application takes a button on the joystick and then maps that to the chosen keyboard/mouse button.

It has other uses too. I have the default map key as "m", but I've also got this application mapping a joystick button to "m" so that I can have a very quick map look while flying, thereby lessening the chance of a pesky ground/interface violation. :)

Similar for eject. Accidental ejects are a pain, so I've changed the default keystroke to one that's not likely to be accidentally pressed, but then mapped that to a button on the top of the joystick, one that's easily within reach, but not likely to be pressed unless I really mean to press it.

If you've enough buttons on your joystick, and my cheapo Saitek Cyborg Evo has, you really don't need to take your hands off the stick when flying if you set it up right.

Anyway, enough babble, here's the baby. Works in XP and Win7 64.

http://electracode.com/4/joy2key/JoyToKey%20English%20Version.htm

[PogMoThoin 10]

I assumed everyone knew about this, so when one of my long standing clanmates said he couldn't transmit in Teamspeak while flying with the joystick without going handsoff, I was quite surprised.

Players can of course, use voice activated, but no-one wants to hear me shouting at the cat in game. As neither Mumble or Teamspeak allow you to have a joystick button as a push-to-talk key, this application can be very useful.

You will still have to have a transmit key on the keyboard or mouse (I use right mouse button), but this application takes a button on the joystick and then maps that to the chosen keyboard/mouse button.

It has other uses too. I have the default map key as "m", but I've also got this application mapping a joystick button to "m" so that I can have a very quick map look while flying, thereby lessening the chance of a pesky ground/interface violation. :)

Similar for eject. Accidental ejects are a pain, so I've changed the default keystroke to one that's not likely to be accidentally pressed, but then mapped that to a button on the top of the joystick, one that's easily within reach, but not likely to be pressed unless I really mean to press it.

If you've enough buttons on your joystick, and my cheapo Saitek Cyborg Evo has, you really don't need to take your hands off the stick when flying if you set it up right.

Anyway, enough babble, here's the baby. Works in XP and Win7 64.

http://electracode.com/4/joy2key/JoyToKey%20English%20Version.htm

You can, I've a button on my X52 as my PTT in Mumble

[Gunter Severloh 4051]

There is already a thread discussing joystick controls here:

http://forums.bistudio.com/showthread.php?t=111789

What does this topic have to do with Multiplayer?

[Tankbuster 1744]

Thanks for your 'help' Gunter.

The thread you linked to discusses flight controls, not specifically mapping joystick buttons to keyboard keys.

It's in multiplayer because my topic is primarily about push to talk keys for comms, which is usually done in multiplayer. Do you use comms in single player?

---------- Post added at 11:11 AM ---------- Previous post was at 11:09 AM ----------

You can, I've a button on my X52 as my PTT in Mumble

I never managed that with my Saitek. But then, I never used the manufacturer provided drivers, I assume you did and thats allowed mumble access to the buttons?

[PogMoThoin 10]

I never managed that with my Saitek. But then, I never used the manufacturer provided drivers, I assume you did and thats allowed mumble access to the buttons?

That could be it, lots of the buttons on the throttle didn't map in windows until I installed the driver.

[Tankbuster 1744]

Ah yes. Windows sees my buttons and throttle just fine, so I never bothered with the Saitek drivers. It's an old stick, dunno if they have 7x64 drivers anyway.