Make escape key universally close emulators

Issue #528 invalid
Tony created an issue

For those of us who don't use retroarch, many emulators behave differently when it comes to front ends. For some, the escape key will end emulation. For others, it will escape out of fullscreen. I even have a few that toggle the menu bar with escape. However, when I play games through launchbox, I want a simple plug-and-play experience. Remembering the behaviors of each backend to get back to the main launchbox UI is not convenient, especially to friends who come over and know nothing about how it works. Launching in fullscreen is easy. Almost every emulator has some method of doing it. Closing the emulator from fullscreen is a different story. I hope that launchbox is able to fill this void.

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  1. Brad Cheyne

    What I tell people on the forums constantly is that we can not change emulators. That would require coding or intepriting emulators that we aren't all that interested in/ In the future, maybe. Alt + F4 is a universal Windows key to close any application that is open/ This is the only true universal closing command. You can easily get Xpadder or Joy2Key or other software that does this job, but essentially you map the keyboard functions to a controller. There are other ways like macro scripts if you have that kind of hardware (like Logitech or Razer gaming gear with macro keys) otherwise you'll have to use the default method that the emulator uses.

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