Opened 17 years ago
Closed 10 months ago
#7558 closed feature request (outdated)
SDL: mouse emulation through cursor keys
| Reported by: | SF/redzebra | Owned by: | |
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| Priority: | normal | Component: | Ports |
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Description
It would be a good thing to have mouse emulation back enabled. Because :
1) for a number of games it emulates the default behaviour of that games
2) there are a number of cases where there's is no mouse available or usable in paractical way
For example my kids love to play puttputt or freddi on tv (myththv) from the sofa on a wireless keyboard. Having a mouse connected to the mediacenter or even a wireless mouse is not an option as there's nowhere to move it on .
For a number of kids, tapping the keys is also easier than trying to control a mouse pointer.
The enabling of the emulation could be done on games where this is the default behaviour in the original or through a similar mechanism as requested by feature request 1679819 : Remap joystick buttons via scummvmrc
This feature request was raised as a followup of bug 1687663
thanks
Ticket imported from: #1688704. Ticket imported from: feature-requests/374.
Change History (7)
comment:1 by , 17 years ago
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comment:2 by , 17 years ago
comment:4 by , 17 years ago
There are AGOS games which use the arrows keys, specially Swampy Adventures and Waxworks.
And several of the arcade type HE games make use of arrow keys too.
comment:5 by , 13 years ago
| Owner: | removed |
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comment:6 by , 6 years ago
| Component: | → Ports |
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comment:7 by , 10 months ago
| Resolution: | → outdated |
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| Status: | new → closed |
This feature was implemented years ago with the "virtual mouse" and "mouse click" bindings in the Keymapper.
As I recall it, this feature was disabled because there are cases where we use the arrow keys for other things. Usually GUI-related things, like scrolling a listbox widget. Fingolfin may remember more precisely.
So if this feature is to be re-introduced, there would probably have to be a way to turn it off, as well.