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by anvil
Wed Sep 20, 2023 6:13 pm
Forum: Discussion
Topic: Left Handed Friendly.
Replies: 8
Views: 2060

Re: Left Handed Friendly.

Biondo, Sorry to take so much time to get back to you. I hope you are right. I did see the bit about special character strings. Got to admit, that exceeds my computer knowledge. Hope its the answer. The primary keys for a lefty are the numb pad and the arrow keys. At least for me. I often reverse th...
by anvil
Wed May 31, 2023 9:00 pm
Forum: Discussion
Topic: Left Handed Friendly.
Replies: 8
Views: 2060

Re: Left Handed Friendly.

The only thing I have done right handed is golf, and haven't played that since high school! Biondo, I appreciate what you are saying, but perhaps to understand the problem, ya gots to be one. ;) As a right hander, nearly every game keyboard is set up so that all needeed keys are far left and easily ...
by anvil
Wed May 17, 2023 1:35 pm
Forum: Discussion
Topic: Left Handed Friendly.
Replies: 8
Views: 2060

Re: Left Handed Friendly.

Biondo,

I wish that were true, but its not. At the beginning of the keyboard_csv file is a list of "not used, for designer only" keys that we mere mortal players cannot use.
by anvil
Sun May 07, 2023 3:14 pm
Forum: Discussion
Topic: Left Handed Friendly.
Replies: 8
Views: 2060

Re: Left Handed Friendly.

"I can't imagine controlling the mouse with my left hand". Lol, now you understand the problems we lefties have with nearly everything that you other handed take for granted, from scissors to keyboard assignments. Most games allow programming the num pad and arrow keys for, actually, any k...
by anvil
Fri May 05, 2023 2:06 pm
Forum: Discussion
Topic: Left Handed Friendly.
Replies: 8
Views: 2060

Left Handed Friendly.

If there were one change I would like to see is keyboard friendly. The older I get, the harder it is to run my mouse with my left hand and play "WSAD" with my right.
by anvil
Fri Nov 11, 2022 11:51 pm
Forum: Nuts and Bolts - Waterloo
Topic: mouse game pointer problem
Replies: 6
Views: 1797

Re: mouse game pointer problem

Like minds and all that. I just came back with a solution and there it is. Its a text dpi issue. And the way to get to it is right click your desktop and go to personalization. Then Display. Select custom dpi. I'm playing with it and it works up to 135 dpi so far. I lose my mouse at 140 dpi. So its ...
by anvil
Thu Sep 22, 2022 6:00 pm
Forum: Nuts and Bolts - Waterloo
Topic: mouse game pointer problem
Replies: 6
Views: 1797

Re: mouse game pointer problem

It was similar, but you solved the problem of only having the game screen in the upper left corner,,, with working mouse. Using your setup in the ini file, the game screen is fine and the tutorial works, so I'm sure thats solved. My problem is that the actual mouse and the game pointer are not conne...
by anvil
Wed Sep 21, 2022 4:56 pm
Forum: Nuts and Bolts - Waterloo
Topic: mouse game pointer problem
Replies: 6
Views: 1797

mouse game pointer problem

Thanks RebBugler for your input. I am re-posting here. Heres my original post "Is there a place to get some help getting sowwl running? I bought the boxed game from slitherine just before the delisting and am having a resolution/mouse problem. if I set full screen =0, no matter what i set the r...
by anvil
Tue Sep 20, 2022 5:28 pm
Forum: NSD Talk
Topic: GB vs. WL
Replies: 17
Views: 6902

Re: GB vs. WL

Is there a place to get some help getting sowwl running? I bought the boxed game from slitherine just before the delisting and am having a resolution/mouse problem. if I set full screen =0, no matter what i set the res in the ini file, i get a mouse cursor, but only the upper right 1/4 of the game s...
by anvil
Sun Sep 04, 2022 3:42 pm
Forum: NSD News
Topic: Scourge of War Update
Replies: 92
Views: 29151

Re: Scourge of War Update

Awesome!