Keyboard

Killer KoolAid Man · Posted: Wed Aug 30, 2006 1:49 pm Post subject: Keyboard

I was wondering if anyone knew how to route a button on my keyboard to say open like itunes or soemthing. Like My home key goes to my default browser...i was wondering if anyone knew how i could change those...how i could get into the driver or something cuz i got a wireless....let me know if you guys know anything...thanks

Replica · Posted: Wed Aug 30, 2006 4:15 pm Post subject:

not sure entirely but if you right clcik on pretty much any shortcut you can select a hotkey for it..
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Stevo · Posted: Wed Aug 30, 2006 4:30 pm Post subject:

StrontiumDog · Posted: Wed Aug 30, 2006 5:18 pm Post subject:

What is the make of your keyboard?
Dell? Microsoft? Logitech?
If it is one of the above, you should have drivers that come with it. In Control Panel, you might be able to set the function of keys.
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Killer KoolAid Man · Posted: Wed Aug 30, 2006 7:08 pm Post subject:

its a dynex

StrontiumDog · Posted: Wed Aug 30, 2006 7:40 pm Post subject:

Mmmmm....dunno

Checked the Net for info but there was nothing on reprogramming the keys. I've never used a Dynex so I wouldn't know.

There IS a program that allows you to completely remap your keyboard.

http://webpages.charter.net/krumsick/

This will also give you access to the multimedia buttons.

I used to use it to turn off the left hand Windows key....now I don't have that problem anymore now I've been playing a while!
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Killer KoolAid Man · Posted: Wed Aug 30, 2006 10:52 pm Post subject:

thats almost what i need...i dont think that program can re route it to open an exe file or nething tho

StrontiumDog · Posted: Thu Aug 31, 2006 8:36 am Post subject:

Yep...you're right. It just remaps the keyboard to another key.
Silly me. d'oh!

So I did another search and found this program:

http://www.autohotkey.com/

It does the same thing...allows key remapping but it also will allow you to run programs and such from key presses.
The only thing is, it is a scripting language (which looks to be pretty easy) and has a large help forum comes with it. But it will allow you to make your keys work for you.
The tutorials are good too.
I haven't installed it so I don't know if it will work....

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Killer KoolAid Man · Posted: Thu Aug 31, 2006 8:51 am Post subject:

lol i really odnt understand how you find these things...i might have looked for a total of like 2 hours in the past few days

Canadian Rifle · Posted: Thu Aug 31, 2006 10:14 am Post subject:

right click on the icon, go into properties and under start in there will be a hot key blank where u can enter a key to use!

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