X-Keys Foot Pedal

[daanji]

I have a X-Keys Foot Pedal and having trouble with it.


I recently wanted more key-binds, so I figured I'd reassigned my foot pedal keys to some modifiers.

That way I could hit ctrl with my foot and hit 7 with my hand. The result would be ctrl+7


However, it doesn't seem to be working on WoW.



I opened up my G13 profile editor and it can recognize the ctrl+7 just fine. So, I'm not sure why wow doesn't see it.

[ragawaga]

Not having one of these devices myself, my advice may be rubbish, however, I'd perform the following tests:

- Bind all of the pedals to be shift (makes for an easy test)
- Using a program like notepad or something check that each pedal works...(eg, will make the keypress of a standard letter appear in upper case when used...and lower case when not used)
- Run wow and do the same test in a chat window.

If it works in the chat window then that would suggest that perhaps there's a keybinding issue with what you'd been attempting.

Outside that, hopefully someone else here can offer more insight.

[Slimjim19]

make sure the software that controls the foot pedal is running as admin if you are in vista or windows 7. otherwise it wont get passed to wow.

[PIEAmber]

The above poster was correct -- you need to run MacroWorks 3 as an administrator to pass keystrokes onto some software on Vista or 7.

Additionally, if you happen to be on a Mac, OS X doesn't allow modifiers to be combined with another keyboard's keys. So you could do Ctrl on the X-keys and you could do 7 on your normal keyboard, but you couldn't combine them for Ctrl+7. This is only the case with OS X, not Windows, and affects all keyboards.

Please feel free to contact me personally. I work for P.I. Engineering (we make the X-keys) in tech support and I'd be glad to help you troubleshoot. E-mail is amberm@piengineering.com and phone number is 517-655-5523 extension 19.