Hi everyone I have finally been able to find a place to upload a small Q1 app which lets you customise the Q1 keys.

1) The app allows one of the Ukeys to change the actions of the other U keys allowing you to perform alot of tasks with just these keys. It performs some tasks which magickeys doesnt allow (like opening a directory folder)

2) It allows you to use the directional buttons on the left to control the mouse cursor.

3) It allows you to move a window up or down (same as dailkeys) for when the window or dialog box doesnt fit onscreen.

4) tray icon allows you to minimise all windows (show desktop) and perform a right click

Thanks to Ticonderoga who went to the trouble of giving this app a home:

http://www.ticoneva.com/cue/vU-Do%20Keys%202.1.2.zip

I had been trying to find a place to host this for a very long time :)

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

the link is broken

Thanks qdewolf

Ill try and get it up again soon hopefully with a new version.

Hi,

> http://download.mini-pc-pro.com/download.php?file=208
>
the linked page says 'Invalid file ID'

What went wrong?

I ve put the new version on megaupload for now

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=A4LR05MY

Magic48ges:

Hi,

> http://download.mini-pc-pro.com/download.php?file=208
>
the linked page says 'Invalid file ID'

What went wrong?

 

I dont really know. F2theD was kind enough to host the file so I dont know what went wrong plus I dont know much german :)

Ive uploaded it to Megaupload for now.

No luck with Megaupload link either. The app sounds intriguing and I'm interested to see how it interacts with Ticonderoga's pointer app.

Mark

Hmmm... Strange

The megaupload link works for me.
you may already know this but you have to type the letters it shows in capitals then wait 45 seconds before you can click the download link.

Cue if you don't mind you can put it on my server. I can send you the login info through private message.

Thanks Ticonderoga that would be great.

Hello,

is there a newer version of your vU-Do Keys package available than ver 2 beta?

Is there a way to swap the click actions for the tray icon?
Currently, a double click activates right-click preloading,
and a single click activates the UI.

Since I'd like to replace the floating right-click surrogate applet from the Touch Kit
with one located in the tray, it would be a nice feature
to have the actions of your tray icon swapped,
so as to enable right-click preloading with a single tap.



Another problem:

Pressing the 'Set MagicKeys' button in your app leads to weird behaviour of the desktop.
After pressing the said button there is no way to exit your program anymore...
I needed two reboots and some more actions to get the Touch Kit running again.

It seems your app tries to change some settings of MagicKeys
using the default application paths, not the localized entries from the registry.
This can be seen in the 'U1 Program Launcher Actions' list box,
where a default of 'Run: C:\Program Files\...' is visible,
which won't work on localized versions of Windows.

For example: 'Program Files' is 'Programme' in the German localisation.
The locale setiings are available through API calls.

I can only guess about the reasons for the behaviour described above,
but I think it's due to the fact that I never use an administrator account
for normal taks like web surfing,
and your program wants to create or modify a file within a directory structure
which either doesn't exist (due of the locale settings) or isn't accessible due to restricted rights.

Any help appreciated - Thanks;-)


Regards

Raymond

Hi Magic48ges

Magic48ges:

Hello,
Is there a way to swap the click actions for the tray icon?

I have now changed it so that 1 click makes next click right, 2 clicks shows traymenu and 3 clicks shows desktop. I will release it soon but first I would like to sort out the other problems you seem to be having. I do not seem to understand what causes them.

Magic48ges:

Pressing the 'Set MagicKeys' button in your app leads to weird behaviour of the desktop.
After pressing the said button there is no way to exit your program anymore...
I needed two reboots and some more actions to get the Touch Kit running again.

I am curious as to what weird behaviour it is causing and what exactly the "Said" button is (is that german for save) and how it caused Touch Kit to stop running.
I made the button 'Set Magickeys' out of pure lazyness so that users will not have to do it manually. It simply opens 'MagicKBD.cpl' (it shouldnt rely on directory paths) and sets the hotkeys to "Ctrl+shift+1" through to "Ctrl+shift+4" through a macro. one thing though which may stop the program from working but shouldnt cause a problem that requires you to reboot twice ( very odd)  is that the app looks to see if the windows "Magic Keyboard Registration" and "Hotkey group setting" are open so as to start changing the hotkeys. these may be named differently in the german 'MagicKBD.cpl' that is if it is called 'MagicKBD.cpl' in germany.

Magic48ges:

This can be seen in the 'U1 Program Launcher Actions' list box,
where a default of 'Run: C:\Program Files\...' is visible,
which won't work on localized versions of Windows.

The buttons I ve set here are just examples (the ones I use) and can be changed to match your directory or a app of your own choice other than Program Launcher or even an entirely new action but you probably knew that already :)

Magic48ges:

and your program wants to create or modify a file within a directory structure
which either doesn't exist (due of the locale settings) or isn't accessible due to restricted rights.

The app should not try to create or modify a file directly within another directory  other than its own. (it does change settings for magickeys through magickeys own settings window,described above, and  changes the mouse click) these are the only two things i can think of that may be causing the problem because of the locale settings but I dont see why it should.

Hope that helps, please report with any updates.

Hi Cue,

thanks for your reply.

I just tried the prog again, and pressing the 'Set MagicKeys' button
prevents me from exiting the 'vU-DO settings' dialog.
Neither Cancel nor OK exits the program.
The keys which brought up another dialog before
pressing 'Set MagicKeys', like 'Special' or 'Other Settings',
now can still be pressed, but don't do anything anymore.

I had to kill the task using the task manager.

To clean up, I did a reboot.
This time there was no problem after the first reboot.
Maybe it was a side effect or my laziness the last time I tried;-)


Then I tried again, this time after ending the MagicKeys tray app.
Pressing 'Set MagicKeys' leads to some action on the HD,
and for a short moment, a title bar (RUNDLL) appears in the task bar,
indicating a program or script had run in the background.

Result is the same as above, the program can't be exited.
MagicKeys settings does not appear in the tray,
but the MagicKeys app can be seen running in the task manager.


So I killed the MagicKeys task in the task manager,
then started your program again, pressed the said button,
and got a RUNDLL exception.


Maybe I should have never pressed that button,
somehow reminds me of the 'More Magic' switch;-)


Currently my main interest is the right click preload function,
which your program offers through the tray icon.
As you wrote, your next version activates this function
after a single tap on the icon.

Please let me know when it will be available - Thanks;-)


Even if I seem to have some probs with the program,
it looks very good, and the offered features
are most wanted for the Q1 IMHO.

So thanks again, and keep up the good work!

Hi Magic48ges

What windows ver are you using?

in the MagicKeys settinngs are the buttons and window titles english?

try start>run and type and run

rundll32.exe shell32.dll,Control_RunDLL MagicKBD.cpl

what happens?

if at the end of the day vU-Do keys doesnt run on your Q1 i will create a smaller app which only does the right click preloading if your intrested in only that feature.

if  "Set Magickeys" is the only thing that doesnt work then you can just set it manually for now (in magickeys). set U1 to Ctrl+shift+1,  U2 to Ctrl+shift+2 ...etc

Hi Cue,

the Windows version on my Q1 is XP Tablet PC Edition 2005 , Version 2002, Service Pack 2 .

When I use 'rundll32.exe shell32.dll,Control_RunDLL MagicKBD.cpl' from a cmd line
it brings up the 'Magic Keyboard Registration' dialog, as expected.

When I start vU-DO and run the vU-DO settings dialog,
then after pressing the famous 'Set MagicKeys' button
an error message box pops up, titled 'RUNDLL',
and the message is (Translated from German into English) :
An error occured while executing 'shell32.dll,Control_RunDLL MagicKBD.cpl'

and I can't exit the vU-DO settings dialog...hmm.

After all, I initially pressed the said button only to see what happens,
but I could also use the desktop icon or the tray icon for the MagicKBD settings, of course;-)

So far I didn't use the U keys that much, I only set U1 to ESC.

So currently I can't really judge if vU-DO Keys works on my unit or not,
maybe I'll try as my needs for special key actions grow.
But it's good to know that such an application exists at all:-)


In the mean time I'd like to go for your offer for a small tray app
which only preloads the right-click, at least if it's not too much work for you.

BTW: The way vU-DO indicates a pending right-click with a flashing icon is really nice.

Thanks for your help!

Regards

Raymond