[Scummvm-devel] ScummVM 0.13.0 plans

[Torbjörn Andersson]

Rafał Rzepecki wrote:
> At Sunday 21 December 2008 11:11 Hubert Maier wrote:
>> Why not take a key for the menu, that is available on all keyboards but
>> seldomly (never?) used in any game due to it's nature of "normally" being
>> an "Office" key?
>>
>> Like, the TAB key or HELP, BREAK, PRTSCR ... although i don't know if these
>> are available on handhelds, probably not...
>>
>> I'd go for TAB if i were asked
> 
> Why, that's a great idea. I'd go for the 'pause' button personally -- not used 
> at all, and it has a right name -- after all, GMM does pause, doesn't it?
> 
> (Tab isn't that great -- close to other keys and easy to hit by mistake. And I 
> imagine it might well be used in some games ie. to switch modes.)

I suppose the "Home" key might make sense, too, if it's not used for
anything else by the engine. But are all these special keys available
on, say, Macintosh keyboards?

Torbjörn Andersson