USB Numberpad for extra keys? Able to remap?

[Brookie]

Anyone try this? I gave it a shot and bought one...seems a very cheap alternative to the $150 xpad things...but my number keys on the USB adapter are hitting the same number keys on the keyboard. Only saving grace is that I can use Numlock on the adapter, while using the non-num locked keys on the keyboard. Is there any way to remap the USB keys to be independent?

This is the part I'm talking about.

http://conics.net/catalog/images/imagecache/ELE-NUM.jpg ('http://conics.net/catalog/images/imagecache/ELE-NUM.jpg')

[Notes]

Works just like your normal numpad you have on your keyboard, as does the numlock button.
I do use this thing though, because I like to have the numpad on my left side instead of the regular right side ;)


Sure, if you're in to coding I'm sure you can get the keys mapped to keystrings (e.g. shift+alt+1) but I just use it like a normal numpad to heal my party, as I no crap about coding stuff ?(

edit: duh, to early in the morning for reply's... you already said your self what I just answered :rolleyes:

[daviddoran]

That'd be the trick, and if you could figure out how to do it, I would be your best friend :)

[Brookie]

With as much as the extra button pads are in demand, woulda thought someone had been on this a long time ago.

[Hat]

Look up glovepie. I use that to map buttons from one input to another. For example, from my electronic piano keyboard to ALT-1, etc.

[Quix]

I just followed xzin's advice & got the Xkeys. Never thought Twice since then. Easily programmable, for an extra 20$ over a part like the one you listed.

[Brookie]

All X-keys I look up are around $120...this thing was like $10. Seems like a great substitute to me if we can get this reprogrammed.

[maxel]

I could probably build something like this using raw input from the device and a mapping function. Give me some time to think about it and I'll post what I come up with if it's workable.

Max

[Brookie]

Ya, I woulda figured it be listed as Keyboard2 or something, not substituting the exact same keys on my main keyboard for the ones on the usb drive. Hmm.