@keith-f-kelly said in Enhancements for Dialog Navigation/Controls:

I don't see why any button needs to be mapped to the TAB key. TAB doesn't appear to be used anywhere in the menus. Am I missing something?

The physical key Tab is by default mapped to traverse the button selection (in the bottom area) in retropie's dialogs. More generally it is mapped to traverse the input fields/controls of the different widgets available in a dialog.

For 0x0a / 0x0d: I do not stick to 0x0a I just took what was there, maybe it is the cleanest to sent the terminfo's cr instead of 0x0a or 0x0d.

@BJRetro said in Show Control Panel Layout before game starts in RetroPie, just like Arcade1UP does.:

https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/20030/controller-info-overlay-in-the-game

@BJRetro I actually went this route and it works. I use 2 copies of my game specific bezels...one with a transparent background (gameplay) and one with the black background with controls. This makes the transition seamless. However, there are 2 things that make it non-optimal:

1: Requires the use of a hotkey combination to change overlays. A single button solution would be preferred.
2. The game is not paused when you display the controls bezel. I was thinking of adding a 'pause_toggle' command before the 'overlay_next' command but haven't found any instances of success. See this thread as an example: https://forums.libretro.com/t/overlay-format-documentation/230

maybe there is a more pratical solution.

is possible to set a combo of joystick buttons for opening the RGUI?

I was trying putting this:
input_menu_toggle = "L2+R2+L1+R1"

but apparently is not working

Awesome news! Thank you!

@mediamogul
Thank you! I will give it a try.

@mediamogul
thank you, I will try them

@meleu it failed as pi user so i used root user to get joy2key to work

I think it's worth to mention it was implemented. Those who like to update frequently may have noticed. The PR 1980 was merged, and now the "a button" means "A button".

Thanks to all the testers here!

Still looking for some help :D

I think it's worth to mention it was implemented. Those who like to update frequently may have noticed. The PR 1980 was merged, and now the "a button" means "A button".

@meleu you can adjust the codes that get sent - means customising the scripts though.

eg. line 116 of runcommand.sh

from

"$ROOTDIR/supplementary/runcommand/joy2key.py" "$JOY2KEY_DEV" kcub1 kcuf1 kcuu1 kcud1 0x0a 0x09 &

to

"$ROOTDIR/supplementary/runcommand/joy2key.py" "$JOY2KEY_DEV" kcub1 kcuf1 kcuu1 kcud1 0x0a 0x09 0x0a 0x0a 0x0a &

would assign 0x0a (enter) to buttons 2, 3 and 4 in addition to the existing mapping.

@herb_fargus

I did not know that. To bad about the input would love some bezel and shader support.

I think I found the reason: The hex values that are getting sent are terminal-specific and don't work for my terminal. I fixed it (hopefully) by using curses which uses terminfo to translate to the actual terminal values.
PR soon... :)

Fixed my problem. Figured I'd post the resolution in the event that somebody else inevitably has the same issue. gunnarh's posted solution was right. It's not an issue of the multiple joysticks. It's actually the sketch. You need to use the bounce library, like was used in gunnarh's link. Without it, the buttons don't get recognized properly within retropie. I went as far as to edit the usb_desc.h for the teensyduino libary to only have it expose the joystick, and nothing more. That worked for only having a single joystick show up, but the button issue remained. It wasn't until I utilized the Bounce library, that my button presses behaved as I expected.

@wetriner said in Keyboard Emulation with Gamepad outside of emulators:

@TheLuthier There is definitely supposed to be joypad functionality in the retropie setup menus, and I believe it has been there for as long as I've been with RetroPie(something like 2.7 or so) It's just based on your joypad 0 button and DPAD. But it's set to work for typical setups.

UPDATE: Aahhha! You sir, are correct. I tested and indeed my joypad 0 works (R1 for my setup) and my analog stick is used for navigation (though it's a bit backwards with X axis being up and down). Essentially this solves my original question - Thanks!