Press and Hold Options

[nka]

I did reply here, but I will create my own topic.


I want to create a Key Press that is hold the button like I would do on a Keyboard as long as I hold it on the Joystick.

I found two way of doing it, but I feel like it could me made in a better way.

1) Creating two "Commands". One  to "Key Press Down", and the other one to "Key Press Release".



This work, but I have to create two separated commands.

2) Create a "Loop" to release the key on the command.


This work, but I have to set key and button twice introducing risk of error. For example, I could "Press W" and "Release  Q" by error or map button 21 instant of 22 and have to go back fix it... it's not that bad, just "time consuming".

I was wondering if there was an option like "Hold key while button is held down and release" or using variable so I can do :

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Press Down W key
Start Loop While %button pressed%
End Loop
Release %previous key in this command% key

else, the last option I might use is to create all the "Commands" in the GUI with "Press Down _ Key", then using a script to edit the CSV (or XML) file to add the "Start Loop While/Release" of each commands.

[SemlerPDX]

...something like this should work for what you describe:

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Press down Left Shift key
Start Loop While :  Joystick 1 Button 42 Is Pressed
End Loop
Release Left Shift key


[nka]

yes, this is what I do right now (option 2), but I was wondering if there was a built-in option to do this. I'll take that as a no 😁

Thanks a lot!

[Gary]

I see what you're saying about making it easier with something like '%button pressed%' - it's a great idea, however, there can be multiple buttons/keyboard keys (modifiers, left and right) pressed at a time to trigger a command.  Gets kind of icky.

I've had it one the whiteboard for some time to add device mapping capability to VA.  I have not incorporated this, as there are already apps that exist that do this (like Joy2Key).  One day, perhaps?

[nka]

Thanks a lot Gary, VoiceAttack is what I prefer using, so I made it with the manual mapping and it's working fine!