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[darkangael]

Hi all,

I had been looking for a way to detect differences between two keyboards and have the output redirected to different windows depending on which board it was. This has been shown to be impossible with AHK. What can be done is use of HID devices that are not detected as "keyboards". What I am looking for are devices which have many buttons, of about the same size as keyboard buttons, that could be used as a sort of "control panel" and are not detected as keyboards.

Anyone know of anything?

[tinaa]

I just got a Logitech Cordless Wave Desktop. I was playing with the driver for the keyboard to see if I could make better use of the extra keys by bypassing Logitech's Setpoint software. I noticed, in addition to the Logitech drivers, there were 2 generic drivers listed as compatible: HID keyboard and HID device. Selecting HID keyboard allowed the keyboard to function as a normal keyboard, but selecting HID device caused the keyboard to mostly stop working as a keyboard. A few of the extra buttons continued to be mapped to keyboard scancodes, but the standard keyboard buttons no longer did so and were basically ignored by the OS.

I don't know if this is possible or not, but I'm wondering if by selecting a generic (non-keyboard) HID driver for an HID keyboard, you'd be able to do what you're trying to do...

If you have a test program to capture HID key presses, I'd be willing to try it on my keyboard with the generic driver installed.

[Lexikos]

Try DLLCall: Support for Human Interface devices or Keyboard Media Keys (for USB HID devices!). I tried to use generic USB HID drivers with my mouse at one point, but found that it would either be undetectable or would move the cursor. Perhaps you'll have better luck...