works great on a Q1 running Vista. Awesome! Thanks.

@ dmc - Do you have an issue with vista where if you use the left "joystick" you lose your touch sensitivity.  That is the main issue i've had with vista so far.

regarding the new version of the mouse pointer app, I'll check that out later today (I'm excited!)

Not at all. I used the Registry tweak from Kevin Tofel when I initially put Vista on it and I haven't had an issue since. (Now media player is another story....)

dmc:

Not at all. I used the Registry tweak from Kevin Tofel when I initially put Vista on it and I haven't had an issue since. (Now media player is another story....)

what registry hack is that?

look at his post frm October 12=3th. "Vistagami Part 3.5: Vista is 95% functional on the Q1"

mpolino:

Very nice. Double clicking the buttons is fine and I didn't expect that there was anything you could do about the keyboard arrows.

But this 1 day responsiveness is going to kill you. Take a week next time because if you keep making this look easy we'll start asking for hard stuff and expecting it in a day!

Thanks again.

Mark

 

I guess you're right; my workload as a graduate student will start kicking in next week anyway. In any case I have uploaded a minor update that has a slower default standard speed of 25 and a slightly longer delay to fast speed of 250. These settings seems to work better for me than previous ones.

Hi Ticonderoga

Good to see people are still developing small apps for the Q1. I made a similiar app a while back which i never actually released (I thought it could be improved a little more and I couldnt find a place to host it) but the cursor control was not the main drive for creating the app.

http://origamiproject.com/forums/thread/13692.aspx

I am slightly confused as to why the U keys dont work when in cursor mode. may i ask what the app is coded in?

I also had a problem with actually detecting when different U keys were pressed since the have the same virtual keycode but the directional button keys will do because they are mapped to the arrow keys. I could not figure out a way to detect its scancode so my app relies on magickeys. it captures a hotkey and does what its assigned to do, this is partly why I didnt release the software since i thought this could be improved but I simply forgot about the app because university once again started. 

If you wish to check my app I ve uploaded it to a free file hosting site. It doesnt require an install and writes nothing to the registry, it uses oldskool .ini's only.

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=75ZB6JEA

simply run the app (red icon) click "setup magickeys" in the bottom left and its ready. then run the actual app (green icon).

u can then press U2 until MOUSE appears then press U3 to change the arrow keys to control the cursor (the tray icon will turn red). 

I am glad to annouce a new version that works with single click (1.0.14).

Cue,
Thanks a lot for your input. The fact that your program is working led me to recheck Windows API documentation and behold I found the problem: I was not passing all the data in one of the parameters. My program is written in VB 6 but I had also ported it to VB 2005 as I tried to figure out what's wrong. The handware dependent scanscode can be extracted through low level keyboard hood; u1-u4 have scancode from 88-91 respectively while the setting button has a scancode of 69.

Excellent utility for the Q1, Ticonderoga! Thanks!

One question...what does the Launch cursor at Startup option actually do? I have this app in my Windows Startup folder so it starts at each boot. Tried leaving it out with this option set but it does not then automatically startup at boot.

Edit...

OK, I think I figured it out. Having this option set means it starts in Cursor mode when you first start the app, not that the app is supposed to start when you boot Windows.

Right, sorry for the confusion. I have changed the wording in the newest build.

I consider 1.0.16 as a stable release so any builds in the near future would be mostly bug fix. I plan to start working on a new version of my virtual keyboard, adding in features like customizable skins and layouts. Any suggestions on new features and improvements of this remapping program however is still very welcomed.

This is great! Thanks for sharing it!

Another day, another improvement to the app. I know what I'm doing every morning now. The apps fabulous.

Mark

"Once the applcation is launched, attempt to launch a second copy of the application will toggle between cursor and arrow keys (just like showhide.exe of Dialkeys). Note that what the program does is mapping the arrow keys to the cursor; as a result you can only use one of the two at any given time. "


Does the above stop the Enter key on the TIP keyboard from working when the app is running?  Also when using  ritePen the Enter gesture does not work when the app is running.

What am I doing wrong?

A faboulus application indeed! Thanks for making this! :)

However, I have always been a bit annoyed that the shortcut keys are on the right hand side - and since I am right handed I tend to hold the pen in that hand. Whenever I play a game, e.g. like Diablo 2, I have to hold my left hand over to the right side to press my hotkeys. It looks rather strange and can be a bit of a strain since I have to try to not cover the screen with my hand also. :-)

Now I wonder - would it be possible to map the joystick so that it could press any user defined button (including mouse buttons)? It would make it so much easier since I could then assign e.g. joystick down to right clicking, and the 3 other directions to other settings (drinking potions etc). Generally it would be very nice to have an application that would allow me to reconfigure every key on the device including the resolution switcher (which I would probably configure as right click then).

And also, it would have been awesome to have that program autodetect application in focus and switch shortcut mapping automatically. I still wonder why Samsung didnt do that in the first place since no application has the same shortcut key requirements.

johncl:

Now I wonder - would it be possible to map the joystick so that it could press any user defined button (including mouse buttons)? It would make it so much easier since I could then assign e.g. joystick down to right clicking, and the 3 other directions to other settings (drinking potions etc). Generally it would be very nice to have an application that would allow me to reconfigure every key on the device including the resolution switcher (which I would probably configure as right click then).

And also, it would have been awesome to have that program autodetect application in focus and switch shortcut mapping automatically. I still wonder why Samsung didnt do that in the first place since no application has the same shortcut key requirements.

The answer is yes. An application with all the features you mentioned is under secret development with no definite date of release ;P. I have figured out how to program these features but putting them together in one usable package takes time.