Per the user: the game never reads the pilot keypad, so the numpad
becomes the flight cluster - 8/2/4/6 stick, 7/9 pedals, 0 trigger -
with Shift/Ctrl as throttle up/down and Alt as reverse thrust. That
frees the entire letter board: W/A/S/D/Q/E return to their printed
MFD bank positions and B goes back to being the gap key, so the
default profile now carries the complete unmodified vRIO bank layout.
The keypad addresses stay bindable (arcade key events) but ship
unbound.
Alt as a held flight control meant every release popped the window
menu and stole focus - WndProc now eats SC_KEYMENU. Shift/Ctrl/Alt
key-name aliases added to the parser alongside the .NET names.
Profile parses clean (59 key buttons, 8 key axes); single-player
cycle and key-bomb tests green (Alt+Q abort unaffected).
Machines with an existing bindings.txt keep their old map - delete
the file to take the new defaults.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
PadRIO now loads bindings.txt (vRIO profile grammar: key/pad/padaxis
lines with toggle, deflect/rate, invert/deadzone options) written
self-documenting with the full default layout on first run. The
default is vRIO board-complete map - number and letter rows are the
MFD banks as printed on the panel, F-keys the secondary/screen
columns, numpad the pilot keypad (0x50-0x5F delivered as arcade RIO
KeyEvents, a new PadRIO capability), Space/arrows the joystick
column - with the desktop driving keys carved out: WASD stick, Q/E
pedals, PgUp/PgDn throttle, B reverse (vRIO gap key; R returns to
its bank). Pad bindings unchanged in spirit, plus Panic on LB and
config on Start/Back; axis signs are encoded in the profile now, so
L4PADFLIP flips on top of it.
Default profile parses with zero rejected lines (68 key buttons, 8
key axes, 12 pad buttons, 5 pad axes); single-player cycle and the
key-bomb tests stay green.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
CydandClaude Fable 5