It's pretty sweet that you can buy one for only $50 though! Kudos to the Geekhackers!
]]>I'd like to make a QICO (QWERTY-in-Colemak-out) device with all the Extend++ trappings some day... :-)
It's here: https://i.imgur.com/9CyfrY3.jpg https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=69169.0
Steps needed:
1. Make the hardware (see the link a how-to) or buy it ready-made (see link as well)
2. Program the chip to convert Qwerty into Colemak
3. Build it into a keyboard and/or carry a spare converter with you.
[global]
; Default mode for non-ASCII characters.
; Possibly values:
; i : with SendInput windows message. Maybe this is the best
; a : With Alt+Numbers on numpad
; c : Copy the character to the clipboard and paste from it
default = i
; There are two clipboard modes: If Restore mode is not active, sending a
; Unicode character (like '') will erase the current clipboard content.
; If Restore mode is active, the clipboard will be restored
; after a short delay (3 sec). This may be slow if the clipboard content is huge!
restoreClipboard = yes
[programs]
; Predefined modes for programs
klavaro.exe = c
skype.exe = c
totalcmd.exe = c
; The original mode for non-ASCII characters may not work with
; all programs (for example GTK applications, like Klavaro or Pidgin)
; so you can try alternative modes with this hotkey.
; If you have found the best mode, you can write it into the
; nonASCII.ini; and please send it to me as well!
changeNonASCIIMode = ^+3
So, if it's the Space specifically. Well, what you could do is to remove/comment its mapping from the PKL layout.ini file! Then it should pass through the hook and be seen by everything else. However, that'd make Extend mode impossible so another tack would be to try a VirtualKey mapping. Either way, you won't then be able to bind fancy stuff to for instance AltGr+Space. But you may not need that?
But if your Flash games are unwilling to listen to anything, then it's because they're stupid. Flash is sometimes very, very stupid I'm afraid. :-(
]]>Indeed, for the most difficult situations (typing on PlayStation, anyone?) a hardware solution is awesome. I'd like to make a QICO (QWERTY-in-Colemak-out) device with all the Extend++ trappings some day... :-)
]]>However I know that PKL works, because in a plain text editor (e.g. Microsoft Word or Notepad++) each key functions as my chosen layout says it should.
My issue that flash games will not respond to key presses when PKL is on but work fine when I turn PKL off.
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