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whitehatmiddleman / crkbd-pimoroni-trackball

crkbd with pimoroni trackball
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Speeding up trackball #3

Closed douglance closed 3 years ago

douglance commented 3 years ago

I'd like to be able to hold the right layer key to speed up the trackball.

How would I go about doing that?

whitehatmiddleman commented 3 years ago

I'll have to take a look. I won't have time this week, but next to see if I can make some modifications for that.

douglance commented 3 years ago

If you could just point me in the right direction, I should be able to figure it out. Thanks!

whitehatmiddleman commented 3 years ago

Not really an advanced C developer, the code in the pimoroni_trackball.c is where I would start. I finally have cycles to look into this, but if you're able to come up with a solution, I can update the repo with the changes.

douglance commented 3 years ago

I haven't had a chance to look into this yet, but another thing that might be cool is using the trackball to move the caret while typing.

So with a key held down the trackball would send arrow key presses according to the direction that its scrolled.

It might be easier to get around a text document that way than using the mouse pointer.

whitehatmiddleman commented 3 years ago

I have a layer that navigates like vim and also use neovim, so I rarely need to use a mouse. Archlinux is my OS with bspwm as my windows manager so my fingers never leave the home row. The trackball helps me when I have to browse the web.

You are welcome to fork and make any necessary changes that fit your personal needs.

whitehatmiddleman commented 3 years ago

FYI, I've finally been able to update the code to allow accelerating when a layer key is held down, similar to the scrolling feature. Running some tests and refactoring. I should have the qmk firmware repo updated this week.

whitehatmiddleman commented 3 years ago

Updated the repo to accelerate mouse when the NAV layer key is pressed. The scrolling feature is activated when the SYM layer is pressed.

Please go ahead and pull the updated repo. Let me know if you run into any issues.

douglance commented 3 years ago

I updated to the new changes. It works great. Thanks!

whitehatmiddleman commented 3 years ago

Awesome!!!