bfritscher / carnac

A utility to give some insight into how you use your keyboard
http://carnackeys.com/
Microsoft Public License
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Spaces, page down, ctrl+alt+ , \ and more #52

Open DigitalArtz opened 2 years ago

DigitalArtz commented 2 years ago

Version 3.1 has empty sapces in front of special keys "Ctrl, Shift, Alt, Home, End, Page Up, etc." which is not the case in version 3.0 What would be nice is to have an option to set how much spacing there will be to the left and right of both spcial keys and normal keys. For instance a slider with 1,2,3 character spaces on both sides. so instead of "o", we could have ".o.", "..o..", "...o...".

Page Down is shown as Next, this is fixed in one of the forks, but that fork has different issues.

The right Alt is read as Ctrl+Alt as opposed to AltGr, and I think this is why no combinations work with it. I'm using a UK layout if that helps narrow down the issue. So \ should be displayed when pressing AltGr+#, but it displays Ctrl+Alt+#. Instead of € sign I get Ctrl+Alt+4

And this is a list that works out of the box #, ~, /, <, >, ?, !, ¬, `, MediaPlayPause (this one uses the fn button combination)

If possible it would be nice if we could use any alternative text or ASCII code to display, like play pause icons instead of the media text.

I downloaded the gir repository in vs studio but I couldn't even get it to build, it gives me too many assembly reference errors that I just can't fix. If I could get it to work I would try to make a working version from the multiple semi working versions.

candideu commented 1 year ago

Did you ever get this working?