General Question How can I edit keymap.cfg?

[spy]

I've been trying to launch the Atlantis Shuttle, and I cant ever get it to launch, I think its because I don't have a number pad, My Computer is a M11x Alien ware, If you can tell me what to do It would really be helpful, I've heard I need to mess with a File Called Key.cfg but when I go to open it, it tells me i need to find a program that can open it, All the programs it shows are to fix broken files so I don't know what do to do...

 

[orb]

The keymap.cfg is a text file, but it uses .cfg file extension which most probably isn't associated with any application on you computer.

1. Open Windows' Notepad, then from File menu choose to open a file.
2. Browse to your Oribter installation folder and change file type to open to "all files (*.*)".
3. Now select the keymap.cfg file (or keymap if you have no file extensions shown) and open it.
4. This is how you can open that file for edit.

The keymap.cfg contains a list of key bindings in a format of pair: "FunctionInOrbiter = KEY_NAME [MODIFICATOR]", where MODIFICATOR is optional, or it can take ALT, SHIFT, CTRL values.

 

[Spacethingy]

Hello Spy, welcome to the forums!

When you open the file and your computer says "find a program", click on "choose program" or something like that, then select Notepad from the list, or better still, Wordpad. There might be an option like "do this for all files of this type", select that too.

That should make all .cfg files open automatically in Wordpad/Notepad.

By the way, the "fix Windows file errors" thing is not very helpful! If you find a file that you're not sure what it does, this website is extremely useful: www.fileinfo.com For example, for .cfg files, it says:

Generic preference file that stores settings and configuration information; used by various programs, which means different CFG files may store data in different formats...

Which is sort of right.