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First post, by steve.mackinney

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The application (basketball stats program) I want to run using dosbox allows the user to enter which offense they are using by pressing function keys or ctrl-function key combinations. This does not work if dosbox uses these same keys to start the keymapper or save a screen print to a file, etc. I'd like to just turn off the keymapper using the config file to keep it simple. Is there a way to do that?

If I can't do it that way, how do I tell the keymapper that I want to bind a key combination (ctrl-F1 for example) to an event (F1 or possibly ctrl-F1) so the key entry is passed along to my program instead of being intercepted and processed by dosbox? I tried clicking F1 and mod1 and hold in keymapper but it does not show that it is connected to EVENT mapper. I also clicked on Enter and Mod2 and Hold but the EVENT does not show as FULLSCREEN. Since that is what those keys do in dosbox, it seems like it should show that in keymapper.

Thanks for your help.

Reply 1 of 1, by steve.mackinney

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I experimented some more and resolved it. I got into dosbox and pressed ctrl-f1 to bring up the keymapper. Then I clicked save and exited. I then edited the mapper-0.74.map file I just saved and deleted all the lines at the top of the file that begin with "hand" which tell dosbox to "handle" various key combinations. Then I started dosbox again and it no longer intercepted any of those key combinations.