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I got a popup asking whether I wanted to update to 1.3.1, to which I clicked okay (I tested it at home and it fixes my 'd' key issue - thanks a lot for the fast update!). It installed to C:\Progra... etc. but my original installation was on E:. This resulted in two installations of devkeyboard (I've removed both and reinstalled now)

If you want to have an update facility you should probably store the install dir in a registry key or something. However, I think automatic updates aren't really necessary for a program like this so it's probably good enough to just remove/disable it.

Is there a reason why only so few buttons are added? I'm assuming it's because they are the center ones, but I'd say add a few more - a bit of the third row at least.

So, same bug, different key. jd whenever I press jdust the 'j' key. I now have all keys unbound.

the quick brown fjdox jdumps over the lazy dog.

When pressing save in the settings page, all keyboard input* is frozen while DevKeyboard is saving (that is, while the taskbar icon is orange). This usually goes in the blink of an eye so no one notices, but there are also situations where disk access takes a while. Therefore, DevKeyboard should not be intercepting keyboard input while saving, because it does not actually know how long the saving operation will take.

*Okay so probably not all input, just the mappable keys, haven't tested.

I'm not even sure it can be fixed, save maybe by adding a blacklist/whitelist for programs it should go with... but if any application uses the letters as key bindings, there are problems. Games with WASD layout? Won't work. Chrome reacts to backspace key by going back one page; now this happens whenever I hold "g" a!bit too long. OR any other of the keys.

WhatI'm saying is, this program is great when writing code, but something must be done so it won't interfere with work otherwise.

You know what would be nice? Having a dropdown-list of presets for different languages, say "C++", "Java", "Lua"...

On the other hand, many would probably be simmilar. But still, presets, instead of having to change all buttons myself!

an image of the layout would be nice

Okay, so we can toggle it with Super-J. However, (and I know this is a small detail), I'd love a way to check it it's currently on or off without having to try or opening the tray (both operations are time consuming). Some ideas include:

• Play an "on" or "off" sound when enabling/disabling
• Or display an animation if possible
• Or make the icon visible in the task bar on the bottom when toggling
• Or have a new key binding that just shows the current staus in some way (sound/animation/display in task bar)

As said, this is minor, but it would be nice either way.

Right now, the settings page is really ugly and hard to use. I'd propose (tho there are surely many ways to make it better) a grid-based layout, something like a table. Here is a drawing:

Tho by all means you can make it a different layout if you want.

spacebar = longpress -> quotations mark
?doubletap-> "->" sign
esc = longpress -> "alt+esc"
doubletap -> alt + tab
left ctrl , shift , alt
right ctrl , shift , alt

capslock to change case of selected text , like - upper , lower , sentence , snakecase , camelcase etc .

If you enable DK with upper caps, it will behave as if it was on lower (giving lowercase letters). Luckily when you press caps again it does get to the correct state (so, still lowercase), and then if you use caps lock again everything works properly. Nevertheless, a check-caps-on-enable would be a good thing.

So, is there an option to start devKeyboard on system start or do I have to launch it myself?

Do you plan to make a linux/Ubuntu version?

After using through autohotkey, capslock does not work on my keyboard.

It's weird that I didn't notice this before, but when I have devKeyboard on, I can't enter UPPERCASE letters! This is a very serious issue if it's not just local to me.

Great projdkect, but unfortunately not useable for me dkue to an error. When I tap the "d" key, it changes it to dk immedkiately (not holdking in the button, it is not dependent on the time you set either). I've triedk changing my settings and found a workaround; if you map anything at all to the d key, the error goes away.
Attachedk are my settings.