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General FreeSpace => FreeSpace & FreeSpace Open Support => Topic started by: Reprobator on January 16, 2009, 02:02:17 am
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Hi everyone,
following issue is not a very important one but for comfort if it could be resolved, it would be more comfortable :
I'm not using a qwerty keyboard and when i want launch fs2 it automaticly switch on qwerty mode, in single player this is not a problem at all but in multiplayer it's getting quite a pain to chat with the other player...
Isn't it possible to avoid fs2 to force the qwerty keyboard mode?
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Not at present, no. FreeSpace2 talks to the keyboard pretty much on hardware level, interpreting the signals from the keyboard based on a US 104-keys layout locations if I recall correctly. As a rule of thumb, if you press Q on any keyboard it sends the same signal to the computer, how the computer reads it depends on the keyboard layout.
Currently the keyboard layout is hard-coded and can't be changed by localizations like system level layouts; changing this will hopefully be possible when new pilot code arrives (it will address other input issues as well if I have understood it correctly) but as for now, try to endure... or aquire a QWERTY keyboard to play FS2 with.
...actually there might be something you can do under Linux, based on this (http://www.hard-light.net/wiki/index.php/Fs2_open_on_Linux/I18n_and_Key_mapping_problems), but I don't know if that would be possible at all under Windows... :nervous:
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Ok thank you for the reply anyway that's just a question of comfort, i can play with that however :)