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ijprest / keyboard-layout-editor

Web application to enable the design & editing of keyboard layouts
http://www.keyboard-layout-editor.com/
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How exactly do you use the .json? #240

Closed nathgit closed 6 years ago

nathgit commented 6 years ago

Can you use it to create a custom keyboard (input method)? I have an extension that adds an esperanto keyboard. The extension is just a json. Is it possible to do that with the .json generated with this? I'm using Chrome OS.

ijprest commented 6 years ago

Short answer: No.

Long answer: The JSON describes is just an alternative way to save or backup your data (e.g., if you didn't want to log-in and save it on GitHub). It describes the physical layout of the keyboard, and the physical properties of the keys/caps.

There are also a few unaffiliated third-party sites that can take the JSON (or raw data) and do things with them, e.g., Swill's plate builder.

While I suppose it would be possible for a third-party site to do something to map the keycap-legends to scancodes, etc., in order to generate something that ChromeOS can consume, I don't actually know of any sites or tools that have attempted this. It's not really what KLE was designed for, so it would be kind of a hack.