I can't open the OpenMSX console (Windows XP)

Paragon (1843)

31-08-2007, 20:05

This really sounds stupid, but I am not able to open the console in OpenMSX. I tried this in OpenMSX 0.60, 0.62 and the one Vampier posted in the latest news reaction.
F10 doesn't show any reaction. F12 (toggle Fullscreen) works without problems. I already read the note, that there might be problems with F10 in Windows combined with F12 (Fullscreen).This really sounds stupid, but I am not able to open the console in OpenMSX. I tried this in OpenMSX 0.60, 0.62 and the one Vampier posted in the latest news reaction.
F10 doesn't show any reaction. F12 (toggle Fullscreen) works without problems. I already read the note, that there might be problems with F10 in Windows combined with F12 (Fullscreen). So I tried F10 directly after starting OpenMSX, then after switching to Fullscreen and then again after switching back - nothing.
I already tried two different keyboards on my PC and played around with the keymap-file without success.
Does anyone have an idea what could went wrong?

By jltursan

Prophet (2619)

31-08-2007, 20:27

Works fine here. Tested version 0.62 over WinXP and MSX1, 2 and TR machines. F10 always toggle the console without problems.
Maybe some background app (could it be a video card tool or desktop helper?) is stealing you the keypress. Have you tried with other apps that also make use of F10 key?

By Prodatron

Paragon (1843)

01-09-2007, 01:34

F10 works fine in any other application (including emulators ). I just wonder if I could somehow reconfigure it, because F12 works as an example, but without console I can't use the "bind" command, and trying arount with the keymap file didn't help yet.

By Edwin

Paragon (1182)

01-09-2007, 02:03

The key bindings can also be changed in the settings.xml file.

By Manuel

Ascended (19314)

04-09-2007, 23:28

Note that there might be 2 settings.xml files, a system one and a user one. The latter is somewhere in your My Documents path, I guess.

Anyway, I don't konw what happened here, but it should obviously not occur, it's not normal.

You could manually edit the settings.xml file (normally you'd use the console, but OK... this is the only case you can't...):
Here's a minimal one with a keybinding:

<!DOCTYPE settings SYSTEM 'settings.dtd'>
<settings>
  <bindings>
    <bind key="keyb F10">toggle console</bind>
  </bindings>
</settings>

Check if that helps. Change the F10 to something else, if it still doesn't work.

I still think that one of your settings.xml's (probably the user one) has a weird keybinding.