can you map keyboard keys to a joystick button in Steem?

[STcomp]

I was just wondering if STeem, or any ST emulator, can map keyboard keys to joystick buttons, to make shooting games that used the ST keyboard for special functions a little more fun to play. Also this is a weird question, but my F10 key is out on my laptop keyboard, is there a way to remap the f10 key to another key like f11??? (in STeem or any ST emulator)

[Desty]

I don't know about STeem, since I haven't used it for a few years... it probably has some mechanism for remapping keys.
Hatari allows you to define a custom keymap file, which maps SDL keyboard codes (which you can find online, in one of the SDL header files at least) to ST keyboard scancodes.

About the keyboard -> joystick mapping, I'm not sure... if not, you might be able to configure your joystick software to simulate a certain keypress when a particular button is pressed. Maybe you can find a generic joystick macro program if one didn't come with the device.

[simonsunnyboy]

IIRC Steem allows that out of the box, e.q. making a joypad button behave like pressing SPACE or so on the ST keyboard.
Just explore the joystick configuration dialogs.

[rocket-dog]

About the keyboard -> joystick mapping, I'm not sure...

I would be grateful if somebody could answer this as I would like a PC joystick for use with STEEM. At the moment all my low res colour stuff is don via STEEM.

[StickHead]

This is possible. You need to go to the shotcuts menu (the little lightning bolt on the top-right) from there you can assign joystick buttons to ST keys, re-map your F key, whatever you want. I found this handy for taking 'action' screenshots by assigning a joystick button to 'take screenshot.' Now I don't need to put down the stick to take a piccie!

Just click 'add new' then click on the empty box and STeem will wait for input of what you want to map (ie Joystick button, F11) then tell it what you want to assign with the drop-down menu.

[STcomp]

thanks for the help everyone! it pretty much kicks ass to map keyboard keys to a nice little USB gamepad, especially for all the platformers (like Beyond the Ice Palace and many others) that have you annoyingly having to hit space or a function key while you are trying to deal with a controller. now if that was only possible on a REAL ST! That would be da bomb.