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Here's my latest workspace experiment, optimized(well, this is
kind of a first shot at optimization)for use with a programmable
joystick. The goal is to reduce the need to touch the keyboard,
while still providing rapid access to functions.
It's evolved a bit from the 'normal'
one in that I've made the buttons bigger, and some of the arrangement
has been tweaked. It also has buttons for virtually every normally
used command--the other doesn't have buttons for some I habitually
access through shortcut keys--and even the command-line switches
within commands.
For some time now, I've had a CH
Products F-16 Combatstick(an awesome joystick, BTW,) and a
CH Pro Throttle(a sort-of-OK throttle,) which has 20 programmable
buttons and allows the attached stick to also be programmed--the
Combatstick has 14 buttons. Since I'm left-handed, I just use
the stick...the throttle takes up too much desk space, anyhow.
With a recent move to a new machine with Win2K, I've switched
to a Microsoft Sidewinder Precision 2. It's OK, though I would
have preferred to stick to the CH line, but they seem to be hard
to find in the Great White North, and their programming software
doesn't support Win2K, or at least not at the time.
If anyone knows of a driver for Windows NT that would let me acutally
use the joystick axes for anything, let
me know!
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Look at how the buttons are assinged--
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