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Re: Keyboard reprogramming and VMs



Flash,
I am not sure Dvorak is the right choice, instead you might consider other ergonomic keyboards from Logitech, MS, Kinesis and others. Still, many of these need quite a bit of getting used to, but much less than Dvorak that really wreaks havoc with your typing habits. Xy can certainly do what you want in any case.
Speaking of keyboards, I have a massively typing-intensive project on
the horizon and I'm getting arthritic. Has anyone here experience of
Dvorak keyboards? I mean, strictly from the ergonomic standpoint -- I
have no doubt that Xy can handle the re-mapping.

Edward,
Sharpkeys is way better than the manual method of registry programmming (see e.g. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/remap-keyboard-keys-third-party-software-tutorial-mitch-dampier/), but the problem with it is that it cannot handle different keyboard states separately.
Allchars has worked fine for me in Win7. Win10 may need another solution 
like WinCompose which has lots of ready character mappings to choose 
from. Another option would be to integrate the compose mechanism into 
the keyboard driver using KbdEdit's chained dead keys (see 
http://www.kbdedit.com/manual/ex17_compose_key_chained_dead.html). I 
have not tried this, but I may. It would make a separate compose program 
superfluous.
All in all, I must reiterate my recommendation: KbdEdit is truly a very 
reliable programming masterpiece that should not be ignored. I have used 
it for more than ten years, and almost forgotten about it since I first 
reprogrammed my keyboard with it. It behaves like a native keyboard 
driver and actually produces those. It gives Windows the kind of 
keyboard flexibility XyWrite has and more.

Best regards,

Kari Eveli
LEXITEC Book Publishing (Finland)
lexitec@xxxxxxxxxx

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