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Hi all,

Apple's bluetooth-powered wireless keyboard is awesome, but it's hard to use with Windows out of the box. I first found the AutoHotkey forums when looking for information on getting its "fn" key to work, to enable forward delete, home, page up, volume and media controls, etc. Building on the previous work of forum members Veil and Micha, I'm proud to announce an AutoHotkey-based utility with a standalone installer, which I've dubbed Unofficial Apple Wireless Keyboard Support (UAWKS). My primary goal is to provide something my mom could use, but a source package is also available if you're an AutoHotkey hacker. If you're using the AWK on windows, check it out!

Brian

cool, can u format the code and bring some examples in your main post?
the forums can act like a mirror for that links..

Hi Brian,

I appreciate your UAWKS utility very much. Without it, I couldn't run the very nice apple bluetooth keyboard on my vista pc as my programming abilities are probably comparable to your mothers.

Working on a Scandinavian (Danish) keyboard setup however, I need the Alt Gr key untampered in order to write @,£,$,{,[,],} and \. I have looked through the code you supply on http://code.google.com/p/uawks/ but I can't figure out how to disable the reassignment of the Alt Gr key there. Can you help me please?

Erik

Hello Brian and all,

I am much grateful for the UAWKS utility.

However, working on a Scandinavian (Danish) keyboard I need an untampered Alt Gr key in order to write common characters as @£${[]}\
I have looked through the code you supply, but I can't figure out how to disable the Alt Gr reasssignment. Can someone help me here?

Thanks,
Erik

Hi all - any pointers to getting this working?

I had Auto Hotkey already installed and was using another script for the Apple keyboard which is working nicely on my Sony Vaio.

It seems to install OK, but the only key function which seems to work is Ctrl-alt-delete.

Any ideas?

Cheers


Ben

Fixed - installing the source version corrected the problem.

Nice work Brian!


Ben

UAWKS is a great program- thanks a lot, works as advertised!

Hello,

I'm not that good with code, but I've been trying to find a way to map my Apple Wireless Keyboard's FN key to my laptops FN key. This is because on my laptop, I use the FN key with my F1-F12 keys to perform other operations (i.e. FN+F1 locks my computer, FN+F5 turns off Wi-Fi) and I would like to do the same on my new keyboard.

Is this possible? I've been searching and I haven't seemed to find a simple answer.

Hmm, it helps but the Ctrl key becomes the Windows key, and the Command key is still the Windows key when used in combination with other keys. And the Command key once got stuck somehow for me and was performing commends as I tried to type. There seems to be no way to use Ctrl.

I'm on Windows 7 64-bit and have the 2-battery keyboard version.

Nevermind, got it to work using the Expert mode options.

Hey folks,

Its not that I am not willing to try learning how to programme this stuff but I think its a bit too much work compared to the query.

I have the Apple Wireless alu-keyboard (danish) and I've installed UAWK. The problem is that when using the right Alt the keyboard for some reason afterwards holds CTRL. An example would be making \ which is a combination of right Alt and ½§-key. Pressing the right Alt and the ½§-key gives the \ but then the next key pressed will be in combination with CTRL (for some reason). So when finishing an ALT-combination the CTRL is pressed waiting for the next input. To make it clear the following pressed combination ALT + §½ E would be executed as ALT + §½ CTRL + E

This can of course be avoided by pressing the CTRL after the key-combination to send the up-signal to tell the program that the CTRL has been released but it is very annoying in the long run.

I know the author is aware of this issue (look at this reported issue track http://code.google.com/p/uawks/issues/detail?id=2) but he doesnt seem to care.

And by looking into his code it also seems like he knows about it (i know very little of the syntax but I think I got the right part):

System Keys.ahk:



So my question is: can comebody fix this? As mentioned I think its overkill starting to learn AutoHotKeys just to fix this issue.


Thanks,

Well, I thought about to buy me the Apple Wireless Keyboard bc it seems to be an acceptable option when it comes to workaround a well known issue - the WAF (women acceptance factor).

Anyone here who's still interested to get the issues solved which have been mentioned already/above?

Thx for listening

Many Europeans have been troubled by the stuck Alt Gr key - including me in a previous post here in december 2008. There is now a working solution presented at
http://code.google.com/p/uawks/issues/detail?id=2#c16

Than you to neoner2002

Best regards,
Erik