I learned something else, in the autohotkey folder, the only thing that is needed is the autohotkey.exe and Colemak.ahk file. So I deleted all those files and then use the method of dragging the Colemak.ahk to autohotkey.exe.

you're welcome buddy :). Well I'm officially QWERTY crippled, I can no longer type in that layout since I am extremely slow, thus I must have all methods possible to have colemak available. When I have computers that have disabled usb drives access, I go to https://colemak.com/Converter to use the converter and then paste the text to email, forum, word doc, etc.

Okay, could you people tell me more about this? You install autohotkey to your USB stick with the layout script, and then you can just put your USB drive in any computer and run the script to get the layout? Sounds very convenient!

I'm an AutoIt3 man myself - which of those would be the most convenient to use, I wonder? Shai, you've used AutoIt - what do you think? From a quick glance, it looks like AutoIt would be less suited and more of a hassle since it doesn't have any readymade remapping features, but it does have a tantalizing feature:

It strikes me that I could in theory do a full remap in a script and then compile that to .exe! So I would only need to keep that .exe on my USB stick and it'd completely take care of business with a double click. Woo!

Have anyone done that? Is anyone else interested in me doing it? Would someone help make an icon for the program?

The problem with a compiled program is that people have to trust you not to put in any malicious code in there. But I trust myself! And it'd be up to other people whether they chose to trust me and their virus/malware scanners. The next problem is that my code would be likely to do a few things to tick off malware detectors: Some of them are touchy about any AutoIt code no matter what it is, and after all I'd be scanning for keystrokes which is exactly what those nasty keyloggers do. Maybe nobody would dare use my .exe - but at any rate I'd post the script code and they could read it and compile it if they were suspicious.

[Edit: It turns out that AutoHotkey does have a compile feature. I'm looking into this - looks promising.]

Haha, I'm already getting busy fiddling with AutoHotkey and it's a nice program!

Look what I did to Jon's script: http://folk.uio.no/obech/Files/Keyboard … Screen.zip
This should be useful for some people trying to learn Colemak? (Shai, feel free to grab a copy and put it up for download if you want. The copyrights are in there, but mention Jon.)

[Edit, 070306: Still working with Autohotkey. Implemented dead keys, and looking for more. Stay tuned, it could get interesting!]

[Edit 2, 070312: Damn, I've hit limitations. 1) Scripts have to be saved as ANSI text it seems - this rules out some special characters like h-bar. 2) Seems that AHK is also quite picky as to what may be hotkeyed and used as button text. The ColemakOnScreen will probably end up catering for one Shift state only then - which is a pity, because it's with the weird and wonderful AltGr keys such a utility really shines even for those who have used the layout a little. I'm going to try a different approach.]

Thanks AGK!  Knowing that I can use Colemak on another computer (work, school) without having to install anything makes me feel a lot better about my decision to learn Colemak.

oh that's even better, thanks ChaperonNoir :)

Try my Portable Keyboard Layout program with Colemak support!
https://forum.colemak.com/viewtopic.php?id=345

To be precise, AGK actually quoted fmate14 whose program this really is. Farkas Máté is his real name and PKL's main pages are at the AutoHotkey forums (and at SourceForge); there's a mention of it at the PortableApps site but that one isn't supported I think.