well dos games don't support more then 4 buttons.
So dosbox doesn't either.
I thought that it should be possible to map the buttons to keys on the keyboard.

The repeating is for me 😀 So I can use any set of 2 buttons in jill of the jungle.

Wow, thanks for the fast reply! It's not possible to map the controller buttons to keys, that's what i was trying. DOSBox won't recognize any button-# >4, that's exactly the problem.

Hehe, consider yourself lucky for playing a game that requires only two buttons - i was trying to setup Tie Fighter, one of my alltime favourites. It would be soooo cool to have the controller fully configured.

If you're assuming that it should be possible to map all controller keys to keyboard, could this be a bug? Or something that's related to my system? I have no idea what DOSBox' intended behaviour is.

the other way around
map any key to any button on your joystick. (that is what you want I think)

I thought that it should be possible, but the code is relatively new so not that well tested. wd might know more about it.

That's how it is implemented, wrapping buttons (2 for 2axis and 4 for
4axis) and having the respective number remappable arbitrarily.
What exactly are you trying to achieve?

I'd like to use the additional buttons for keyboard commands. For example, Tie Fighther (or any other Space/Flying-Sim) uses a lot of keyboard commands for engine throttle, weapon selection, targetting, etc.. It would also be useful to have certain DOSBox commands available via controller buttons, like cycles up/down, screenshot, exit, etc. That would be most useful for people building joypad controlled cabs (I'm currently assembling the software to do that).

DOSBox's mapping system looks like it would be possible to achieve all that - i was really blown away by the possibilities of the mapping features. With the use of modifiers, it would even be possible to extend the number of button-combinations. A serious gamer's dream, if it would only support all buttons (or at least not cycle them). 😀

Well either we have wrapping for the buttons, or full remappability of all
possible buttons (argue with Qbix 😉 ).
In the current way all buttons are useful in the sense that they can trigger
something (button 12 triggers the same thing as button 4 as you said in
your config). When enabling full button mapping, only the first 2 (or 4) would
be useful in the first place.

Got to see if it'd be easy to switch between the two, i'm quite sure it'll
mess up the mapper.txt config files 😀

Hmmm... If DOSBox wouldn't have such a wonderful remapping feature, then your point would be totally valid (wrapping, every button is "useful"). But with the mapper, i can make _every_ button useful - would't that be nice?! I feel the 2/4-button limit is completely superfluous.

Qbix' preferred button behaviour would be easily achievable with the remapper, btw... 😀

Well not easily, as you'd have to customly remap all 16-4 buttons for this
effect (not to speak of those huge 64 button joysticks 😀 ).
The joystick remapping thing was mainly added with joystick/keyboard
swapping in mind, so you can play joystick-only games with the keyboard
and vice versa.

Who needs 32 buttons that do the same thing 😁

Oh well i got it putting out m for button 5, is that useful enough? 😉

Cool, only a few more to go... 😁

It would be great if you would consider adding full remapability to the codebase (for axisses, too - the right thumbstick on my XBox controller doesn't work at all in DOSBox, and please don't forget modifiers, thankyouverymuch!). That would add greatly to DOSBox' usabilty, IMHO.

Maybe this kind of functionality could even be expanded in the future - maybe it's possible to emulate Thrustmaster hardware inside DOSBox, and use any controller (remappable) for input.

I hope i don't sound too smartass - i have no idea how many people are working on DOSBox, or what the priorities are in developing the emulator. I'm just a user, and i see a lot of potential here. If only i could code... 😁

I won't promise anything, as the current solution seems quite solid.
Maybe some switch for this, don't know.

OK, thanks for considering it. And thanks again for this wonderful emulator, which allows me to play the classics without hassle. Keep up the good work!

<Bump> Will this make it into v0.66? Oh, pretty please... (;

I've found out that using joystick buttons as modifiers already seems to work ok in current CVS builds, so i believe the change would be "only" to disable the 4-button-limit, and make DOSBox recognize the buttons #'s >4.

I know i'm repeating myself, but this functionality would make DOSBox so much more useful, especially for flight sims and the like.

nope. the 4 button limit and wrapping will stay for the moment

What a pity... I'll just keep on hoping (and maybe nagging, from time to time). 😈

Don't nag too much.

I'll do my best. But what is "too much"? A philosophical question... 😀