Extended numpad keys about ergodox-firmware HOT 3 CLOSED

The actual keyboard.h in the partial-rewrite is (or looks to be? been a while since I touched it) the same as in the master branch. The comments regarding supported platforms are directly from the USB HID Keyboard spec IIRC — and they’re not precisely accurate, but I found that lot of the things that aren’t marked as supported really aren’t (though, I think some of them are), so I didn’t put most of them in the lib/layout/keys.h file at all, so as to avoid people (including myself) designing a layout around them, and then having to make a lot of annoying revisions because half (or probably more of) the keys they were really excited about didn’t work. Wish I could do something about it, but short of writing new keyboard drivers for the major OSs (which, actually, might be a worthwhile project someday) I’m not sure there’s much that could be done.

If you wanted to try the extended keypad codes, to see if they work for you, just add them to keys.h in your branch (or even, preferably, just in your layout file) using the same ‘KEYS_DEFAULT’ macro used in keys.h. I don’t expect most of the “unsupported" keypad keys to work, but if it’s worth a try, I wish you luck :) .

On Sep 21, 2014, at 6:44 AM, theen [email protected] wrote:

I looked through the keyboard.h and I can they're not supported on any platform. Why is that? I looked through the rewrites' equivalent and they're absent entirely. Will they never be supported? If so I'm curious for the technical reason. I'd hoped my layout could e.g. always send an ' @ ' rather than a ' " ' regardless of the OS's regional layout.

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On 12 Aug 2015 2:10 am, "Ben Blazak" [email protected] wrote:

Closed #50 #50.

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Sorry about that :-/ -- I just closed the issue because it's almost a year old, and I'm pretty sure it's a driver problem.

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