How do you control the camera if you have both hands on a keyboard?Originally Posted by 'Tehtsuo',index.php?page=Thread&postID=70133#post7 0133
Rotating it with keys is really not an option, because it's either too slow or too inaccurate to play.
How do you control the camera if you have both hands on a keyboard?
Rotating it with keys is really not an option, because it's either too slow or too inaccurate to play.
I think this is what we're looking for. Keyboard Commander has a free trial that allows 5 commands, and full version is 24$ according to the site. It allows for different command programming for multiple keyboards. This is a great idea for people who like to tinker, I've got an old IBM keyboard and have already pulled off all the keys. I plan to glue custom buttons onto the tops of specific keys and leave the rest of the keys absent.
For whatever it's worth, this is my field, or one of them anyway -- I've been doing keyboard programming since at least 1987 when I applied for a patent for a type of keyboard driver -- and I don't think you need a driver or a second set of virtual key codes. If you check out the link I posted above to Windows's Raw Input API, I think you'll agree with me that Windows keeps track of which keyboard generated a particular keystroke, and applications can obtain that info from Windows at the API level.
- moving your little finger to shift or another modifier (alt with thumb of course)
- moving your whole hand to another keyboard[/quote]
Like Drizzit said, it depends. I agree with you that it's not good to move your hand frequently but there are lots of ways to use multiple keyboards that don't involve that. For example, infrequently-performed actions that are bound to cumbersome key combo's can be assigned to single keys on a separate keyboard. Or the two keyboards can be used in different situations.
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That's a great table. But you and I are interpreting it very differently. I look at it and see 616 different key combinations. That's 616 "signals" that the game can respond to. It would take more than six keyboards to assign all those signals to single keys.
Edit: added Maz's name to quotes
�Author of HotkeyNet and Mojo
I like to see someone try that. How many keyboards would that be?
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Hrm, I'll have to brush up on my Win32 API then clearly. I've been buried in .Net coding too much latelyRaw Input API[/url]. From what I've read about that API it wouldn't be particularly difficult for somebody who writes Win32 applications professionally. However I've never used that API so I can't say for 100% certain.
By the way, if you have a second PC on your desk, a program like HotkeyNet will let you use both keyboards to control either computer. That would accomplish the same thing as what you're describing. The only difference is there would be a millisecond or two of latency. [Edit: less than a millisecond, probably.]
Most games accept hundreds of key combinations of alt, shift, ctrl, main keys, etc. The advantage of a second keyboard is that it could be configured so a single key press on that keyboard generates a different combination from the same key press on the first keyboard.The game only accepts that much different button inputs as the keyboard provides(and even less). The keys that you can use are also limitted.
So: no, won't work, sorry
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I miss my coding days ;( . Wasn't one of the best coders, but i knew a great deal. My new job just have me doing database stuff, I love it, but you don't make anything really look cool.
Aion:
Azphel
Dual Sorcerer (Medeia, Meddeia)
1--------10---------20-x-------30---------40---------50
Wow Horde retired
Team 1: 1 pally and 4 shamTeam lvl 70
Team 2: 1 DK and 1 Priest lvl 80
Grats on the new job.Hrm, I'll have to brush up on my Win32 API then clearly. I've been buried in .Net coding too much lately
�Author of HotkeyNet and Mojo
When I don't get enough satisfying coding at work I write addons or tools for games
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Thanks!Grats on the new job.Hrm, I'll have to brush up on my Win32 API then clearly. I've been buried in .Net coding too much lately
*shrug* If it is exposed, I haven't dealt with it. The coding at my current job is so straightjacketed we never get to do anything interesting or particularly useful for that matter. Thank the light for new opportunities.
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Original Poster Here: To clarify on this a bit. I want to bind keys on the SECOND KEYBOARD to simple combinations on my first keyboard like you would in any other softawre that comes with the N52 or the G15. Imagine a WHOLE KEYBOARD full of G KEYS for example. yes it is more timely to move your hand to another keyboard but its easier then remembering 500 macros for 5 chars and stumbling over them, not all of us have photogrtaphic memories. I could bind all my keys to things that pertain to all my alts on it and use my main keyboard for my main char. Thanks for all your replies i like alot of your ideas.
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