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[hugov]

@CovenStine: Just to be sure you know, have you tried "edit 3":
http://www.autohotkey.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=228783#228783
if you hold down a key for one second it will be converted to a CAPITAL
letter, saves you the trouble of holding down shift. Of course you might
not like it...
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[TchnclFl]

Thanks for the script! I broke my finger so this will help a lot! I'm actually using it right now so double thanks!
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[CovenStine]

That's an interesting idea, holding down the button to skip the shift...
I guess I was trying to emulate -as close as possible- the behavior of my M-corp half-qwerty keyboard... I have just the one hand, and use the M- kbd on my desktop, and use this script on my laptop.
Down the road, I'd love to use an ergo keyboard on my desktop and switch to scripted work there, too.
In the meantime, I'm simply trying to make this script behave like my keyboard at home behaves, the only exception being the hardware-based stickyKeys, which suck.
Thanks though!
~C

[Jurras]

Did not have a use for ' mapping to ` when using the modifier, so I just set the script so that space together with ' make an actual space. Works great and increases my typing speed.

[fro01]

thank you, this is EXACTLY what im after for online games and such, excellent work
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[adrienneltravis]

CovenStine,

Using Edit 3A, find the following lines:

[SketchySolid]

I want to start by saying I like what you guys have been doing so far. Like one of the posters on one of the first few pages, I also am a user of AutoCAD, and so I also frequently have to use the Capslock button for lots of capital letters. Since the script as presented doesn't actually work very well for users who make use of Capslock, I decided to rewrite the script.

Since this is my first real foray into AutoHotkey scripting, I decided to rewrite most of it so that I understand what's going on. I have removed parts of the script that I felt unnecessary (such as the part that disabled the normal right-click menu on the script and the german and french keyboard options). If you want or need them, feel free to copy those parts over from the current version (Edit 3, I believe) of the script.

So without further ado, I present my code:

[DreymaR]

You could implement half-keyboard typing in PKL, as an 'extend' mapping.

That way, it'd be by virtual scan code (i.e., keyboard and layout invariant), and would easily allow toggling of Caps state (personally I use CapsLock plus Esc to toggle but anything goes) while being practical in use as a keyboard mirroring implementation without annoying and error-prone delay tricks. And it'd be editable without recompiling since it'd reside in the pkl.ini file.

I'm going to do it myself, once I get the time (and get multiple 'extend' states in PKL like I've wished for). Not soon though, so if anyone's interested they should do it themselves.
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[seederoff]

Hi. Let me present my current version of the script:

[DreymaR]

Now that's what I was talking about!

I tried the PKL 'extend' remapping method but wasn't quite satisfied as in the current state of the program it'll remap your mirrored key to the system's installed layout unless you remap by character (so it's layout dependent again). Will work around that eventually.

Seederoff: I think I prefer the symmetry line between (QWERTY) G and H still. It's very important that you can keep your fingers in their normal two-handed positions so that the one hand does exactly what the other would've done most of the time.

However, I made myself two versions: The right-handed version is simple mirroring since it already reaches the [] '\ -= keys (I used the Enter key to mirror although I'd prefer a foot pedal; Enter+Space became the new Enter press). The left-handed version has the [] '\ -= keys moved towards the middle of the board to the (QWERTY) YU HJ NM keys. I think that worked well, although the apostrophe in particular may be so common that it deserves even better and might go on a remapped Tab press.
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[automaticman]

[Guest]

Hey I was wondering if it's possible to modify this script so that when you hold down the key instead of capitalizing the letter it gives you the mirrored letter. I've been trying to modify it but I can't seem to do it. Thanks for the help. It is a great script btw though.

[hugov]

[Guest]

Thanks for the quick response! It works but it produces the capitalized mirrored letter. I want the lowercase. I'm trying this method b/c I find using a space as a modifier is a bit cumbersome and slow, but maybe I just haven't gotten enough practice w/ it.

[hugov]

I removed the + (shift) in the send above so either copy or remove the + in your code
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