usb keyboard addition

[SKYWARRIOR]

Peter,

having gotten the network to work with Wide Fs and FS client I am turning my attention to a keyboard of USB keys.

I believe this might work as an extra key specific addition to the system and need some guidance please. I have tried to work it through FSUIPC as key presses and buttons but to no avail. I suspect there is an interface missing ? The product is called X keys by Macroworks and I am hoping it could be useful to my system.

Any help much appreciated

Regards

David

[Pete Dowson]

having gotten the network to work with Wide Fs and FS client I am turning my attention to a keyboard of USB keys.

What is a "keyboard of USB keys"? I have many keyboards, and most of them these days plug into USB ports.

I believe this might work as an extra key specific addition to the system and need some guidance please. I have tried to work it through FSUIPC as key presses and buttons but to no avail.

If Windows doesn't see the keyboard keys, neither will FSUIPC. But even if it is a true keyboard, surely it will simply duplicate the keys you already have on your PC keyboard?

I suspect there is an interface missing ? The product is called X keys by Macroworks and I am hoping it could be useful to my system.

Sorry, I do not know it, but if it is not a standard keyboard recognised by Windows I assume you need some driver for it?

Regards

Pete

[SKYWARRIOR]

Pete,

here is the developers page for the X keys unit.

http://www.xkeys.com/developer/hidusb.php

I have tried programming a key to give a message and it is seen clearly in wordpad. I am trying to work out how I can access FSUIPC in a similar way. Yes its a keyboard board but to my mind a clear and uncluttered one that if usable I would like to make use of.

Thanks for your help here

David

[Pete Dowson]

here is the developers page for the X keys unit.

http://www.xkeys.com/developer/hidusb.php

Well, it says there to use it as a plain keyboard/mouse emulator, you don't use any of their software but "hardware mode":

"In Hardware Mode the X-keys declares itself as a native USB keyboard and/or mouse and sends only USB keyboard or mouse messages to the USB port. The macros are stored in the X-keys onboard memory and played when the appropriate X-keys button is pressed.

And similarly, if you use their "macroworks" software, you can have more elaborate keyboard and/or mouse macros in the PC -- but they are still sent as keyboard or mouse signals to Windows.

If windows and FS sees the key and mouse operations, so will FSUIPC, but I'm really not sure what good it does you over a normal keyboard.

I have tried programming a key to give a message and it is seen clearly in wordpad. I am trying to work out how I can access FSUIPC in a similar way.

If Wordpad sees the keys, then so should FS. If FS sees the keys and you have programmed them in FSUIPC, then FSUIPC will react as you've programmed them. All FSUIPC is doing is interecpting keypresses received by FS and checking whether there's an action pre-programmed, by you, for it.

There's no point in sending "messages" as such to FSUIPC -- FSUIPC doesn't have any facilities operated by messages. You can program keypresses just as you can buttons on joysticks.

Yes its a keyboard board but to my mind a clear and uncluttered one that if usable I would like to make use of.

Well, just use it as a keyboard then.

Regards

Pete