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#229890 - 05/08/2004 03:56 I need a key swap program.
gbeer carpal tunnel Registered: 17/12/2000 Posts: 2665 Loc: Manteca, California	For my own reasons I need to make the number pad key "/" send an "_" . I searched version tracker but there seems to be a lot of chaff in there. Any one have a recommendation for a simple utility to make that redefinition. _________________________ Glenn
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#229891 - 05/08/2004 04:22 Re: I need a key swap program. [Re: gbeer]
drakino carpal tunnel Registered: 08/06/1999 Posts: 7868	While I don't know of a specific tool, you might want to look for something that can edit locals, so you can just tell windows to change the locale to your custom one for the keyboard.
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#229892 - 05/08/2004 05:38 Re: I need a key swap program. [Re: drakino]
lastdan enthusiast Registered: 31/05/2002 Posts: 352 Loc: santa cruz,ca	I used 'keyboard express' to remap the '+' key on the number pad to be a tab. I miss it so much I think I'll look for it again. waddayaknow http://www.keyboardexpress.com/
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#229893 - 05/08/2004 05:45 Re: I need a key swap program. [Re: gbeer]
MarkH member Registered: 06/04/2000 Posts: 158	Is it W2k / XP ? This might work for you If not, you can tweak anything that returns a scan code via the registry which is painful, but you're only doing two keys so shouldn't take more than, ooh, an hour or so. MS has info here And there's a key scanner here Regards Mark
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#229894 - 05/08/2004 13:20 Re: I need a key swap program. [Re: MarkH]
cushman veteran Registered: 21/01/2002 Posts: 1380 Loc: Erie, CO	I used the registry method to remap my right Ctrl key to Del on my Dell laptop. I couldn't stand not having a delete key next to the arrow pad. I have to say this is way better than having yet another program running to do the keymapping. _________________________ Mark Cushman
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#229895 - 05/08/2004 15:29 Re: I need a key swap program. [Re: gbeer]
tms13 old hand Registered: 30/07/2001 Posts: 1115 Loc: Lochcarron and Edinburgh	Quote: For my own reasons I need to make the number pad key "/" send an "_" . I searched version tracker but there seems to be a lot of chaff in there. Any one have a recommendation for a simple utility to make that redefinition. xmodmap _________________________ Toby Speight 030103016 (80GB Mk2a, blue) 030102806 (0GB Mk2a, blue)
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#229896 - 05/08/2004 15:33 Re: I need a key swap program. [Re: tms13]
peter carpal tunnel Registered: 13/07/2000 Posts: 4180 Loc: Cambridge, England	Quote: Quote: Re: I need a key swap program. xmodmap gnupg Peter
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#229897 - 06/08/2004 02:33 Re: I need a key swap program. [Re: tms13]
gbeer carpal tunnel Registered: 17/12/2000 Posts: 2665 Loc: Manteca, California	Quote: xmodmap Careful your Penguin is showing. KeyTweak seems to just allow moving scancodes around. Perfect is you are swapping the key caps around on the keyboard. "_" is a shifted key, so this isn't going to work. It's a great utilitty to keep from diving into the regestry. I must be missing something about KeyboardExpress. a hotkey compiler that dosen't seem to allow selecting, for remap, character generating keys. Easy to use, but turning keypad / into underscore dosen't seem to be in its vocabulary. Edited by gbeer (06/08/2004 03:23)
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#229898 - 06/08/2004 05:27 Re: I need a key swap program. [Re: gbeer]
canuckInOR carpal tunnel Registered: 13/02/2002 Posts: 3212 Loc: Portland, OR	Quote: Quote: xmodmap Careful your Penguin is showing. pick pick pick Oh, I didn't see you there... I was just picking nits! xmodmap predates Linux by at least 4 years, if not more. The original was written by David Rosenthal, of Sun Microsystems, back in 1987 (or earlier).
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#229899 - 07/08/2004 01:18 Re: I need a key swap program. [Re: canuckInOR]
gbeer carpal tunnel Registered: 17/12/2000 Posts: 2665 Loc: Manteca, California	Quote: Quote: Quote: xmodmap Careful your Penguin is showing. pick pick pick Oh, I didn't see you there... I was just picking nits! xmodmap predates Linux by at least 4 years, if not more. The original was written by David Rosenthal, of Sun Microsystems, back in 1987 (or earlier). But somehow saying "Your Standford University of Network is showing." didn't quite sound right. _________________________ Glenn
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