saitek command pad, ideas???????

hollandrob81 · #1 February 4th, 2008, 08:56 PM

hi there.
ive recently acquired a saitek game pad, which has on it 27 programmable keys. its meant for use in gaming. but can anyone think of anything else it could be used for? you can assign pretty much any combination of key strokes and mouse movements. would be great to hear your ideas!

Bob

oracle128 · #2 February 5th, 2008, 12:11 PM

Web navigation? Word processing? Programming? Hmm, methinks there may be a reason they call it a game pad.

hollandrob81 · #3 February 5th, 2008, 06:33 PM

Jesus! aren't you the helpful one. ive allready found a great use whilst working on a dissertation. i u sed the keys to store phrases i was having to repeat over and over. god really does work in mysterious ways.

any real ideas would be much appreciated. many thanks

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hollandrob81 · #4 February 5th, 2008, 07:10 PM

very very sorry!!!! it was the same person who i thought had abused me in my other post! im such an idiot ! again, sorry oracle, i ws just cummin back to delete this post, but it had allredy been edited. sorry m8

oracle128 · #5 February 5th, 2008, 10:28 PM

I honestly can't think of any realistic reason to use a game pad for anything other than games. Sure, you can program some macros with it, but you can do that with keyboard combinations and mouse gestures too. So if for eg. you're typing up a document and you want to insert some common word or phrase or whatever, it's much easier to do something like Alt+F1, than to take out your game pad and hit a button on it. Unless you're using it like a foot pedal or something, but I don't think a game pad would be well suited for that.

The only thing I can think of that a gamepad could do outside of a game, that would actually be more benficial than doing it with a keyboard or mouse combination/hotkey, is if you had certain game pad buttons load up different games, so you could go straight into the game without touching the mouse/kb. But even that's a bit iffy since a) you still need to turn the PC on manually, and b) you'll probably still need to swap game discs.

hollandrob81 · #6 February 6th, 2008, 06:48 PM

cheers buddy