Change key when pressing SHIF

[2Belette]

Hi

I just receiving my keyboard and it is almost my first message I am writting with it... I have built my first custom hex everythinkg is working great on this side ! I am building an AZERTY (I will contrubute here as I don't see any yet) As AZERTY has different key when pressing SHIFT I am wondering if there is an easy way to customize this? For example SHIFT comma needs to be questionmark (it is < in QWERTY) I like a lot they way to produce layout it is very convenient and I am looking for a simple way to be able to add a key:shift key. many thanks

belette

[DidierLoiseau]

Are you implementing a firmware AZERTY layout to use with another layout (QWERTY?) on the OS side?

Otherwise you may simply include keymap_french.h. Note that I think this one is defined for AZERTY-fr, it won't work properly if you are using another variant like be or ca.

[2Belette]

Hi Didier I am trying to create a french AZERTY layout. I have been working from the default QWERTY layout (keyboard/ergodox_ez/keymaps/default/keymap.c) then I realized that the corresponding SHIFT key are for QWERTY not AZERTY... On your side how do you do? Setting OS in AZERTY or QWERTY? If I select QWERTY on OS side and including keymap_french.h would be enough to get the right shift key in place? Many thanks for your help

[2Belette]

Autoreply! I keept the QWERTY layout and I have added the keymap_french.h it is all I need to make it work! Merci

[DidierLoiseau]

I'm actually using the BÉPO layout, on OS side. If you are interested in keyboard ergonomics, you should definitely have a look at this French layout. Note that it does not work well with the default ErgoDox EZ keymap, but you could try it with the tm2030 keymap that I implemented for example.

[npoirey]

I'm asking here instead of creating a new issue because the title match what I want even if the OP is not looking exactly for the same thing.

I want what the OP want, but i'm planing on having my own disposition. For instance, I have a key that :

• when pressed alone, should put '&' symbol => KC_1 (azerty)
• when pressed with shift, should put '|' symbol => ALGR(KC_6)
• when pressed with altgr, should put '\' symbol => ALGR(KC_8)

On the OS it would be better if it was azerty but it's not a problem to have it on qwerty

No problem for altgr, it's just a layer whith function key, but how can I do the change for shift?

Thank you

[jackhumbert]

The way to do this is through a couple of macros - one to jump to the "shifted" layer, and then one for the | key:

const macro_t *action_get_macro(keyrecord_t *record, uint8_t id, uint8_t opt) 
{
    switch(id) {
        case 0: // M(0) jumps to shifted layer
        if (record->event.pressed) {
            register_code(KC_LSFT);
            layer_on(2);
        } else {
            unregister_code(KC_LSFT);
            layer_off(2);
        }
        break;
        case 1: // M(1) is the | key
        if (record->event.pressed) {
            unregister_code(KC_LSFT);
            register_code(KC_RALT);
            register_code(KC_6);
        } else {
            unregister_code(KC_6);
            unregister_code(KC_RALT);
            register_code(KC_LSFT);
        }
        break;
    }
}

[npoirey]

Thanks, took a while because I didn't have the keyboard ready but everything works fine now ! :D