Port Ogden and Northern

[Dralex]

That's exactly what I suspected: ORTS uses scan codes. I have found out something by trial and error. On my German keyboard these keys work with v360:

Apply brakes: ä Umlaut
Release brakes: ü Umlaut
Apply engine brakes: accent key (two places right of the zero key)
Release e. b.: ß scharfes s (would like to know what the Swiss use)
Connect brake hoses:^ the key to the left of the 1 key
Will try the F1 key to find out about the rest.

Twpol, thanks to the developers for not forgetting this issue.

Alex

[OTTODAD]

Until ORTS provides languages options for it you could use this:



and years ago had German, Uk and US keyboard icons in my Task Bar for instant switching from one to the other.

Having relations in Austria and Germany then started using Alt key combinations instead.

Holding down the Alt key and typing these numbers gets you:

Alt-154 = Ü
Alt-148 = ö
Alt-225 = ß

other useful ones like:

Alt-248 = °
Alt-253 = ²
Alt-171 = ½
Alt-130 = é

and more below.

What do you get when you type: Alt-35 - # ?

O t t o

[Dralex]

Sorry, Otto, but changing the keyboard layout didn't change anything. As twpol said about three posts before this one, they are using scan codes for everything, therefore I had the same keyboard layout after having changed the keyboard to English as I had before. BTW, I had to run ORTS in windowed mode to switch keyboard layouts, and I had to wait until the main window of the sim was on the screen, otherwise Windows would change my keyboard layout right back to German.
However, right now I am quite happy with the keys I posted a bit before this one.
Thank you anyway for your help.

Alex

P.S.: I would like to see a list of all the scan codes ORTS uses. I think I will be able to get a list of the scan codes my German keyboard produces, and then I could match these lists and so find out which keys I have to press. (Our French friends, who have the letter A where we have the Q, will have the same problem, I would think.)