Keymapper configuration tool

Keymapper is a very useful tool, particularly on laptops with odd/missing keys, and also allows remapping of the mouse buttons.

However configuring it is very cryptic even for an experienced RISC OS user. New users would have no chance!

It would be nice to have a configuration plugin to simplify setting it up and running it at boot time.

KeyMapCfg is now available to download from !Store

KeyMapCfg allows you to pick the keys you wish to map from a drop down menu.

Any feedback regarding bugs, glaring errors and omissons, or feature requests welcome. With thanks to Stuart Painting for beta testing and pointing out the first lot of bugs and errors!

This is only my second application using the Toolbox, so underneath the covers I’m sure it’s very rough and ready, but hopefully will at least be a stop-gap solution until a proper programmer can write something better.

a stop-gap solution until a proper programmer can write something better

A stop-gap solution until something better?
That describes, well, most of my software.

You’ll get the bugs ironed out and it will work and then you’ll have the option if it ain’t broke, don’t “fix” it.

;-)

With thanks to Stuart Painting for beta testing

And shortly after completing the tests, my MacBook died. No more RPCEmu for a while…

At least this ArmBook still works :-)

And shortly after completing the tests, my MacBook died. No more RPCEmu for a while…

Oh no,that’s annoying! Good job you have the ARMBook then :)

New version uploaded to !Store which, by request, copes with people using hexadecimal(!) values for key codes in their config files!

Thanks for that very quick response Andrew, excellent job.

Now we just need it turned into a proper configure plugin and included with the standard disc image ;-)

Now we just need it turned into a proper configure plugin and included with the standard disc image

Something that organise the shifted keys as well would be good.
On Rpcemu using RO 3.7 to get the correct shift keys for a USA keyboard, I had to get a copy of the International and InternationalKeyboard Modules from RO 5.4.
A system call for assignments would make the job easier, and instead of just StrongED/Zap being able to do it in their specific ways.
I am looking at the (tiny in comparison) linenoise lineeditor for unixlib use at the moment. By using the example as ’line-noise —keycodes
’ it is possible to see the shifted arrow keys as what must be the 2 byte values truncated somehow.
I dont know why the unshifted arrow keys dont get the same treatment, but at least the shifted values are exposed in a high eenough value to be used.
Link is here for the RISC OS linenoise_example shortly

Reading last night that the linux keyboard driver way to send arrow keys and a few others is to use escape (27) sequences, so there would be 4 bytes for each arrow key.