Keyboard and button mapping

[Dudemeister]

Here is my current setup:

I have an Atari Fighting stick joystick console, I'm using for both MAME and Visual Pinball.  Inside it I built an Intel NUC, and I'm trying to use this without a keyboard if possible.

I'm having a problem with mapping keys to the buttons.  Basically, I map the keys I need in Visual Pinball preferences, and as long as I launch the games individually (double clicking the table.vpx) everything works.  But when I launch the game from within Pinball X , the mappings are completely overridden by the mapping from Pinball X settings.  That wouldn't be an issue (usually), but Pinball X doesn't have an option to map the flippers (none that I can find), and it defaults to the left and right arrows on the keyboard.

Moreover, it doesn't just temporarily overwrites the Visual Pinball mappings, it wipes them clear, so when I go back to Visual Pinball, under preferences, everything has been set to the Pinball X mappings, and since Pinball X does have any default button maps for the flippers and magna-saves, those mappings are now blank.

So Ho do I go about doing this, or do I need to get a 3rd party app to map my buttons?

One other thing, can the game selection scroller which is currently mapped Left and Right, be assigned to a trackball?   I have a spinner on the board, and it would be perfect for game selection.  The spinner basically behaves like a mouse or trackball that moves in the "X" axis only (left and right).

 

[Mike_da_Spike]

Try to set "auto configure" to "No" in the settings for Visual Pinball

  This will avoid to overwrite your visual Pinball settings from PinballX

9 hours ago, Dudemeister said:

One other thing, can the game selection scroller which is currently mapped Left and Right, be assigned to a trackball?   I have a spinner on the board, and it would be perfect for game selection.  The spinner basically behaves like a mouse or trackball that moves in the "X" axis only (left and right).

I think that it is not possible right now, and should make a feature request for Tom

 

[Dudemeister]

Thank you, I'll give that a try.

At the moment though, I think I solved the problem by using a 3rd party app, Joy2Key.  This app lets you assign keyboard strokes to the joystick and buttons, and you can create profiles based on each app.  So I created a profile for Pinball X, and another for Visual Pinball, and now everything works as expected.  But I will definitely try to disable the auto configure function and see if that helps.

Anyway, I will put a feature request in to Tom for the spinner.  I'm sure most users here have a cabinet setup, but I don't have room for one, so I had to settle for what I already have.  but that spinner, just begs to be used in the UI as the game selector.  It's free spinning, so a quick flick of the wrist could probably take me from one end of the list to the other.