Let's say you have a compact bluetooth keyboard that doesn't have an Alt or AltGr button. However you want to use the US-International layout which has a lot of extra characters that can only be reached with AltGr and AltGr+Shift.
In this example I will show you how to sacrifice the (in my opinion rather useless) CapsLock key for a more useful AltGr key.
First I select the layout I intend to use. In this example the English (US-International) layout.
After that I enter the Advanced settings and
I choose to Customize keyboard mappings.
I choose to the create the Custom 1 layout using my selected layout as a base and
then Add a new key mapping.
Pressing the CapsLock key makes it read it's scancode which is 58 and I check the Keycode checkbox and choose Right Alt modifier as the keycode I want to map it to.
To make sure External Keyboard Helper ignores whatever the Android system things that the CapsLock state is I must also check Override special keys and make sure Always remap keys is checked.
That's it. CapsLock now serves as AltGr and I can access all the special characters that my selected layout has mapped for AltGr and AltGr+Shift even though my keyboard does not have a physical Alt or AltGr key.
I have a keyboard which contains an AltGr key which does not generate a scancode until a second key is pressed. Once the second key is pressed, the key combination produces 5 bytes. I made a simple app to display the 5 bytes produced (EKH and Chris Boyle's app show the last byte). As an example: AltGr + Z key generate the following base10 values:
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KeyCode 58 144 146 147 144
The keyboard isn't doing anything completely proprietary because it functions properly with both windows and Linux. The keycodes and special symbols (mostly Latin/Greek) are produced correctly.
I don't believe this to be a problem with EKH but with android. Any comments on this subject would be helpful.
I had a similar, but worse, problem on an iPad. I think I was trying to send Shift-Tab. It would wait to send all the keypresses at once and then sent them in the wrong order!
ReplyDeleteI'm having a similar problem EKH and Emacs. Shift-tab does not work in org-mode.
How would I map to get the second functions of my hardware keyboard to work? Would purchasing the full version solve the problem? (DEMO VERSION!)
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ReplyDeleteI'm trying to map capslock to control (I'm using Termux, and want control keys, and my bluetooth keyboard has a little ctrl key in an awkward place). I've followed the tutorial, and can get scan code 58 in the right place to tell the app which key I want to remap, but I can't seem to get it to recognize ctrl as the map-to.
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Greg Wilson (gvwilson@third-bit.com)
What key combo do u use to launch the remapped app
ReplyDeleteComo coloco para que una tecla me lleve a app recientes? Por favor
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